The co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" got personal on Thursday while reporting on Donald Trump's stunning decision to announce Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general nominee.
The segment started off with an out-of-character disclaimer from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski stating that it is their job to remain fair in their commentary before they turned to an earlier report that the Florida Republican has previously been accused of having a file on Scarborough based upon conspiracy theories that have long been debunked.
Brzezinski began with, "According to the Washington Post, Gaetz has been under investigation of the bipartisan committee for allegations that he may have engaged in sexual misconduct, illegal drug use, and accepted improper gifts."
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She then continued, "And now more on the character of Matt Gaetz and how it connects to this show. Donald Trump began tweeting about widely discredited conspiracy theories about Joe after receiving documents given to Trump by Congressman Gaetz."
"That's according to former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin. She revealed the information in 2022 during her deposition before the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack," she continued. "She told lawmakers she was in the West Wing with Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and Gaetz when she noticed he had a folder with him. When she asked him what was in it she said Gaetz pulled out conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough."
"Farah Griffin said she then told Gaetz he could not put that in front of the president right as she was getting ushered into the Oval Office," Brzezinski continued. "The next morning, then president Trump started tweeting about those debunked conspiracy theories. Trump tweeted about those lies to millions of followers for at least five times over the next three years. Those posts caused so much pain and emotional trauma for the widower of an aide who worked for Joe, that the widower himself wrote an open letter to Jack Dorsey, the then CEO of Twitter pleading with him to remove the posts from social media, from the platform, writing, quote, 'My wife deserves better.'"
"Twitter never deleted the posts, responding in a statement that the tweets did not violate its terms of service," she added
Scarborough then interjected with, "They of course changed the terms of service the next day, so..."
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