Nikki Haley, former US ambassador to the United Nations, has known as out MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for his or her current face-to-face assembly with President-elect Donald Trump, accusing them of trying to spice up their scores after years of harshly criticizing him.
The previous governor of South Carolina and one-time Republican presidential candidate took to the social media platform X to slam the hosts, who revealed they’d met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to “restart communications.”
“Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t abruptly see the sunshine, they noticed their scores,” Haley wrote on X. “They realized they wanted Trump for his or her survival,” she added.
Haley, who has been a vocal critic of Trump prior to now, additionally remarked on the hosts throughout her SiriusXM present. “I imply, let’s be clear. They noticed the scores tank and so they realized, ‘Oh, we higher get on with Donald Trump or else we’re not going to have a present.’”
The previous ambassador additionally took concern with Scarborough and Brzezinski’s previous remedy of her, claiming they “tore me up” every time she expressed help for Trump. “Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough tore me up once I mentioned something about voting for Donald Trump or what I agreed with him on, regardless that I criticized him once I thought he was mistaken,” Haley mentioned. “I praised him once I thought he was good. They tore me up.”
Haley’s feedback adopted widespread criticism of Scarborough and Brzezinski for his or her hypocrisy, given their earlier robust condemnation of Trump, together with calling him a “fascist” and evaluating him to Adolf Hitler.
MSNBC workers additionally expressed outrage towards the hosts. An MSNBC employees member instructed Fox Information Digital, “Cowardice. Doing precisely what [anti-Trump historian] Tim Snyder warns on our air to not do: obey prematurely. It is disgusting however frankly unsurprising.”
On Monday’s broadcast, Brzezinski and Scarborough opened the present by discussing their assembly with Trump, acknowledging the deep political divides in Washington and among the many American public. Brzezinski defined that whereas they’d lengthy criticized Trump, it was now time for a brand new method.
“5 years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the nation. We’ve got been as clear as we all know how in expressing our deep issues about President Trump’s actions and phrases within the coarsening of public debate,” Brzezinski mentioned.
“However for almost 80 million People, election denialism, public trials, January sixth weren’t as essential as the problems that moved them to ship Donald Trump again to the White Home with their vote,” she continued.
“Joe and I understand it’s time to do one thing completely different, and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump, but additionally speaking with him,” Brzezinski added.
