Man, I can't understand at all* why people don't trust cable news networks?
*Trips and falls over the heavy sarcasm https://t.co/ndUaEnhHJP
— stephen fowler | georgia politics reporter (@stphnfwlr) June 30, 2017
The latest on the Joe Scarborough–Donald Trump feud is that MSNBC has text messages that Scarborough says prove his side of the story, but the network won’t release them:
MSNBC says they are not planning right now to release the convos btwn Joe and WH officials as proof https://t.co/2ggEKDMMVp
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 30, 2017
To recap, a network has evidence which might back-up a claim that the President of the United States possibly attempted to extort members of the media, and the network is sitting on it?
Nate Silver isn’t buying it:
This is lame. Maybe the texts and transcripts make Scarborough look bad too? https://t.co/53gDVKezlU
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 30, 2017
What if Scarborough implied he'd give Trump friendlier coverage in exchange for having the Enquirier story killed?
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 30, 2017
Nor is Instapundit:
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/880897634592063488
Time for MSNBC to put up or shut up:
Real weird to say "We have the receipts" and then refuse to show them. https://t.co/FkSWf1bHv7
— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) June 30, 2017
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This is untenable. A journalist can't accuse the president of blackmail, claim to have proof, then refuse to show it. https://t.co/lQMUdNTDSN
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) June 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/Real_Johannes_P/status/880902583124144128
Or maybe they don’t have anything at all:
You smell that?
That's the smell of bullshit. https://t.co/h6SDzR9lgF
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 30, 2017
If this was a smoking gun, there is no fucking way they wouldn't have released them immediately. https://t.co/u4UT9LMJMz
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) June 30, 2017
As for who might be implicated any text message exchanges between the White House and Scarborough, The Daily Beast and The New Yorker are reporting it’s Jared Kushner:
Kushner told Scarborough to apologize to Trump in exchange for spiking of Enquirer article, @gabrielsherman reports https://t.co/jZiB4AHir5 pic.twitter.com/AlfgveDfxo
— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) June 30, 2017
In case you were wondering, yes, one “top” WH official who talked to Joe Scarborough re: Trump/Enquirer was Kushner: https://t.co/w3i4RL7NPj
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) June 30, 2017
But a single anonymous source in a strangely non-bylined story on Fox News denies that the text messages will show any sort of extortion or threat thereof:
Trump, Kushner never blackmailed Scarborough, source sayshttps://t.co/lPqowS2804
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 30, 2017
Keep in mind, both Scarborough and MSNBC have admitted that they’ve had this evidence for weeks yet sat on it:
Joe Scarborough: I Updated NBC Executives in Real Time About National Enquirer Threat https://t.co/Lp1LuMvA2a
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 30, 2017
#Contemporaneous texts. https://t.co/QEdfkgLtbH
— Mark Kornblau (@MarkKornblau) June 30, 2017