Article snippet: Posted at 4:30 pm on June 30, 2017 by Susan Wright Trump son-in-law and White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, once again turns up as the extra ingredient in another Trumpian controversy. This time, it’s the revelation by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that the White House called Scarborough and threatened him with a negative tabloid in the National Enquirer, unless Scarborough and Brzezinski apologized to Donald Trump for their coverage of him on their show, “Morning Joe.” Jay Caruso spoke with Scarborough and wrote about the threat earlier Friday. Now we know who was behind the threats. Jared Kushner. Of course. New York Magazine ran the story today: An important point is made, here. As I saw someone tweet out to Joe Scarborough earlier: You don’t take a scorpion as a pet. Every news network breathlessly covered Trump throughout the primary, as if he were already the nominee. Scarborough and Brzezinski were no different. Only after Trump won the nomination, and then the election did some of these networks decide Trump was every bit the reprobate that some of us have maintained he was from the beginning. For most, including Scarborough and Brzezinski, I’m sure all the fawning coverage was for the very same reasons that the Clinton camp were praying for a Trump nomination – they thought he’d be an easy win for Clinton. They didn’t prepare for the eventuality that their plan would backfire and they’d end up with the nightmare they had plotted ... Link to the full article to read more