Donald Trump is known to be pals with the man who runs the National Enquirer, David Pecker, and there is a variety of evidence that the tabloid is basically a wing of Trump’s PR operation. In a tweet this morning, Trump seemed to confirm that he, in fact, has a personal hand in deciding what the Enquirer publishes:
That’s in reference to his ongoing feud with MSNBC Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, which you can read about here, although, for the good of our democracy, you probably shouldn’t. And here is a story the Enquirer published earlier and June (and re-posted this morning) about Brzezinski and Scarborough’s “sleazy cheating scandal,” i.e. they used to be married to other people but began dating while working together, a fact that was not a particularly well-kept or scandalous secret. (They’re now engaged, and Scarborough denies that he called Trump and asked for the story to be killed.)