Donald Trump, President of the United States and Petty Extortionist

[homersapien 10,954]

Harvard law professor: If the White House threatened 'Morning Joe' hosts with a National Enquirer story, it's a crime

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-national-enquirer-laurence-tribe-crime-2017-6

[japantiger 3,902]

Oh man...you guys just keep trying...I guess this about the only thing you hadn't called him yet...of course, I quit listening when you all called the guy Hitler...oh, completely surprising (meaning not surprising at all), people with direct knowledge have already called this a lie...just like every other bull**** story you guys try to Trump up (pun intended).   Ah, it feels good having the "muslim ban" in place and another conservative Supreme Court justice....hhmmm, funny, 9 Supreme Court justices didn't think it was a muslim ban...wow, who could have predicted that (oh, I don't know,maybe anyone who's actually read the constitution and gives a s*** about upholding it)? 

[AU64 10,122]

10 minutes ago, japantiger said:

Oh man...you guys just keep trying...I guess this about the only thing you hadn't called him yet...of course, I quit listening when you all called the guy Hitler...oh, completely surprising (meaning not surprising at all), people with direct knowledge have already called this a lie...just like every other bull**** story you guys try to Trump up (pun intended).   Ah, it feels good having the "muslim ban" in place and another conservative Supreme Court justice....hhmmm, funny, 9 Supreme Court justices didn't think it was a muslim ban...wow, who could have predicted that (oh, I don't know,maybe anyone who's actually read the constitution and gives a s*** about upholding it)? 

Shame on you Japan...you know that any article or internet post that starts wit the word "IF"....as does the OP... is automatically BS and you read beyond those words at your own peril.   But a good response anyway.

[SaltyTiger 7,365]

23 minutes ago, AU64 said:

Shame on you Japan...you know that any article or internet post that starts wit the word "IF"....as does the OP... is automatically BS and you read beyond those words at your own peril.   But a good response anyway.

Japan was only being nice responding to Homer post of this nature. These articles normally drift on out to sea...............Harvard law professor?? Some bored people in the world.

[GiveEmElle 1,559]

Lordy, I hope there are texts.

[homersapien 10,954]

Ya'll didn't read the story did you?

 

"Trump's response to the allegation on Friday morning appeared to confirm that such conversations took place.

"Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time," Trump tweeted. "FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show."

After Trump's tweet, both The Daily Beast and New York magazine published reports about the context of the conversations between the White House and the hosts of "Morning Joe" regarding the National Enquirer story.

White House officials told The Daily Beast that Scarborough had spoken "many weeks ago" with Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, whom Scarborough is known to be close with, about the upcoming story.

The officials said Scarborough "calmly sought" the advice of Kushner, who "recommended he speak with the president."

But those sources said there was no hostile threat or blackmail attempt in those conversations.

New York magazine, citing "three sources familiar with the private conversations, made public a much different account:

"After the inauguration, Morning Joe's coverage of Trump turned sharply negative. 'This presidency is fake and failed,' Brzezinski said on March 6, for example. Around this time, Scarborough and Brzezinski found out the Enquirer was preparing a story about their affair. While Scarborough and Brzezinski's relationship had been gossiped about in media circles for some time, it was not yet public, and the tabloid was going to report that they had left their spouses to be together.

"In mid-April, Scarborough texted with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner about the pending Enquirer story. Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirer owner David Pecker to stop the story. (A spokesperson for Kushner declined to comment). Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirer published the story in print on June 5, headlined 'Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!'"

Trump is close with Pecker, who has run several pro-Trump pieces in his publication in addition to salacious, unfounded stories involving Cruz and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

 

 

[japantiger 3,902]

Oh, I read the article Homey....maybe you should read it for comprehension...there is nothing in the events that either implies or provides direct evidence of Trump doing anything other than, we'll, nothing...note that they claim Joe calls Trump and he does nothing..then there are no other discussions connecting Trump to anything....all claims from that point relate to the "WH" and are unsourced.  There is an attempt to connect the son in law, but again, nothing attributed to a real human being or anything other than Kushner saying in april "hey Joe, youve been a dick and if you want to talk to the president, you should probably apologize for being a dick".  Oh the horror!!!!!....some advice Homey, if you want to have any credibility going after the president, get a credible source and some facts...at least you didn't claim "the Russians" this time.