Trump's made a "half a dozen calls" to his "under the radar" pal, Joe Scarborough.

[Miles Archer]

Trump Is Making Secret Calls to His Supposed Nemesis
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The president told the TV host about his plans for Venezuela in one of half a dozen calls between the under-the-radar phone pals.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-making-secret-calls-to-his-supposed-nemesis-joe-scarborough/

Opening Morning Joe on Tuesday, host Joe Scarborough suggested he has Trump on speed dial, saying he had spoken with the 79-year-old six times on the phone since the president returned to office last January.

In the most recent call, which took place Monday, the pair chatted about the surprise U.S. military operation that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Scarborough said.

It might surprise a few that Trump would confide in Scarborough, given the president’s outwardly hostile relationship with the host’s network, MS NOW. Scarborough, along with his co-hosts, is highly critical of Trump and his second term, despite his own background in the GOP.

However, Scarborough’s co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, said on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in September that the trio actually maintain contact, despite their public differences.

[FarPoint]

1. Makes me want to puke....

I really never listen to his show for at least a year..... I felt the betrayal to we the people.

[newdeal2]

2. Trump is a gossip

He loves to talk to the media and powerful people and gab. He should have started his own reality TV show or podcast instead of running for office.

[Callie1979]

3. Thats why he keeps letting people interview him for books

He cant help himself & he thinks he ALWAYS has the upper hand & can control the situation

[PatSeg]

13. Exactly, "he can't help himself"

Trump, like a small child, thrives on attention and it doesn't matter if it is positive or negative attention. It is like oxygen to him.

Meanwhile, he has no filter, so all kinds of crap leaks out of his mouth.

[tanyev]

4. This is why the media could stand up to him, if they wanted to.

It would drive him CRAZY if they didn’t take his calls and refused to pass on the “scoops” he gives them. But they’re either fans, or gullible, or it makes them feel important—so they don’t.

[Botany]

5. Joe Scarborough is an unAmerican shit.

He made his bones helping to stop the counting of the legitimate vote in Florida 2000 with
bush v Gore. The Republicans knew the real vote count in Florida 2000 and that count would
have given Florida to Al Gore. That alone should tell any and or everybody what Joe Scabs is
really like.

Maya Angelou, “If someone shows you what they are really like believe them the first time.”

[FSogol]

7. Agreed, but unfortunately, people can't break their tv habits so

they keep watching Morning Joe, 60 Minutes, and other tv dreck. People need to wise up.

[Botany]

10. What 60 minutes has become is tragic

Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace, Eric Severied, Dan Rather, Connie Chung, and so on were so good along
with the writers (I think the corespondents did some of their own writing).

Not that many people watch Morning Ho.

[Bev54]

11. I have turned off all US tv news, reading only now.

[Paladin]

6. To hell with Joe Scarborough.

Happier than ever that I walked away from him and Mika, following their Mar A Lardo visit, years ago. Know your enemies, then act appropriately...

[PatSeg]

14. I quit watching Morning Joe years ago

Even though he's gotten better in many ways, he is still an insufferable egomaniac and bully.

[mzmolly]

8. As long as Scarborough holds Trump accountable, that's what matters to me as a viewer.

eom

[Faux pas]

9. joe scuz

and mika the weakling. At least she waited until her dad died before she married the asshole pontificating buffoon.

[PatSeg]

15. I remember that Mika's father called Joe

"stunningly superficial" and that was to his face. Yeah, I'm not sure he would have given that union his blessing.

[Faux pas]

18. And that was probably

the nicest thing mika's dad said about him.

[PatSeg]

19. Probably

Being he said it to Joe's face (according to Joe himself), it is possible he said far worse when he wasn't around.

[CTyankee]

12. I don't expect anything better from Joe and Mika. Like snakes, they have shed their skins and just adapted to a new

reality. I really don't expect that much from the two of them.

[CTyankee]

16. Joe Scar appears to be growing a mustache. Am I right?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Trump may have blown up Maduro case in private chat with Morning Joe: legal expert

trump is an idiot and is giving Maduro some good material to use if this case goes to trial

Trump may have blown up Maduro case in private chat with Morning Joe: legal expert

www.rawstory.com/trump-s-priv...

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-private-remarks-to-morning-joe-could-blow-up-case-against-marduro-legal-expert/

President Donald Trump's private comments to MS NOW's Joe Scarborough could blow up the prosecution of Venezuela's former president Nicolás Maduro.

The "Morning Joe" host revealed Tuesday morning that he'd spoken to the president the previous day, and he told viewers that Trump boasted that the U.S. was going to take over the South American nation's oil production.

"'Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that [George W.] Bush didn't keep the oil – we're going to keep the oil,'" Scarborough said Trump told him, "and to underline his point, Trump said his comments were no longer on background and said, 'In 2016, I said we should have kept the oil, it caused a lot of controversy. Well, we should have kept the oil.'".....

Those comments, along with similar statements Trump has publicly made, could strengthen Maduro's defense as he fights prosecution in New York on drug and weapons charges, according to MS NOW's legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

"Barry Pollack, who had represented Julian Assange and now represents Maduro, previewed that he is going to make motions to dismiss on the basis of not only head of state immunity, but about the legality of the abduction in the first place," Rubin said.

"And I think that Mr. Pollack would have been very interested in the conversation you had with the president yesterday. Had that conversation taken place before the court appearance, I expect that comments like that would have been addressed, and he would have told the judge this was pretextual."

"This was a military operation all along," Rubin said, anticipating Maduro's defense. "It was always about the oil that the president intends to keep, and not about an indictment or a superseding indictment of Nicolás Maduro, who has been under indictment in the United States already for five-plus years."

[Grim Chieftain]

20. Haven't watched Morning Schmo for ages

And never will. When he and Mika raced to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring after the 'election' it confirmed my suspicions.