
‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say
CNNNew York CNN — “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced Monday, in dramatic fashion, that they went to Mar-a-Lago last week for a fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. The two sources generally agreed with Scarborough and Brzezinski’s impression of the situation at hand – namely, that the incoming Trump administration could use its wide-ranging powers to punish people deemed enemies. Democratic political consultant Chuck Rocha channeled this view on CNN’s “NewsNight” Monday night: He said “I think Joe and Mika just don’t want to be audited.” Veteran media critic Jeff Jarvis said on the same show that the “bended knee” was “a betrayal of the staff at MSNBC who do still criticize Donald Trump, who now feel that they are in some jeopardy because of that, because he has threatened the press.” Last week, Trump ally and former White House adviser Steve Bannon warned MSNBC staffers to “preserve your documents” while predicting Gaetz’s Justice Department would pursue cases against them. One MSNBC regular said of the Scarborough meeting, “not since Bezos refused to endorse did a news outlet so betray and misread its audience.” But Scarborough argued on the air Tuesday morning that the testy social media reactions were not reflective of “the real world.” “We were flooded with phone calls from people all day, literally around the world, very positive, very supportive, going ‘I understand what you did,’ etcetera,” Scarborough said.
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