Mika Brzezinski, who co-hosts MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” together with her husband, Joe Scarborough, defended visiting Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to Donald Trump, in a podcast interview launched Thursday.
Regardless of criticizing Trump for a number of years, the couple visited Trump following the election as a part of a reported try and reestablish ties between the pair and the Republican chief.
Showing on The Each day Beast podcast, Brzezinski was unapologetic in regards to the resolution to bend to Trump.
“It’s time to start talking face-to-face—on the record, on background, reconnecting. And it doesn’t have to be easy. It doesn’t have to be fun. It’s not supposed to be. It’s our job. So for us, it absolutely felt like the right thing to do because it is our job,” Brzezinski mentioned.
Like Scarborough, Brzezinski took a web page out of the Trump playbook and insisted that nameless “leaders” who’re “really powerful” had referred to as her and informed her the assembly was “the right thing to do.”
She went on to deride dissenting voices as one thing “happening online” and mentioned she hoped the assembly with Trump would result in an interview with the convicted felon sooner or later.
After saying the assembly, Nielsen rankings present that viewers turned away from this system. The hosts have been criticized for negating their previous criticisms of Trump by dashing to his aspect so shortly after the election.
Their conduct echoes others—like a few of Trump’s Cupboard picks, together with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his operating mate, JD Vance—who’ve leveled intense criticisms of Trump, solely to change into his allies.
On the identical time, the “Morning Joe” hosts have been among the many softest on Trump when he first ran for president in 2016. Trump discovered a house at MSNBC’s flagship morning program and was allowed to smear and assault others—each Democrats and Republicans—with minimal response from Scarborough and Brzezinski.
The hosts are extraordinarily rich, and whereas they’ve been personally insulted by Trump, they’ve the monetary sources and help techniques on the highest ranges of media fame that may defend them towards doable Trump assaults sooner or later.
The general public who’ve watched them through the years—and who doubtless believed them once they portrayed Trump as a menace to democracy and civil rights—don’t have the identical sources.
