Megyn Kelly tears into Morning Joe hosts 'grifters' after secret Mar-a-Lago meeting to make amends with Trump

Megyn Kelly ripped into Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for hypocrisy aft their gathering astatine Mar-a-Lago to marque bid with Donald Trump. 

The joined cohosts of MSNBC's  'Morning Joe' said connected Monday they traveled 'personally' to conscionable with Trump connected Friday successful bid to 'restart communications and set a 'new approach' up of his 2nd term.

Liberals and conservatives person denounced the pair, portion staffers person defended them anonymously, but Kelly astir astatine a nonaccomplishment for words astatine their having 'done a 180,' earlier uncovering a precise profane one. 

'I searched for a mode to respond appropriately, and I called connected my 10 years arsenic a litigator, successful summation to my present 20 arsenic a journalist, and I deliberation I recovered the cleanable phrase: Go f*** yourselves,' she said connected The Megyn Kelly Show Monday. 

Just weeks earlier the election, the amusement had claimed Trump was embracing 'fascist' tendencies.  

'Go f*** yourselves. Go f*** yourselves you dishonest jokes of faux journalists. What an absurd farce… Which 1 was insincere? He's Hitler? Or present we're going to talk information to powerfulness and find a mode of speaking to and moving with Donald Trump? Which 1 was a lie?'

She claimed that this was being done due to the fact that their ratings are starting to 'circle the bowl.' 

Her guest, left-leaning writer Glenn Greenwald, went adjacent further successful speaking his deficiency of respect for the archetypal household of MSNBC. 

'This is not hyperbole. I've fixed existent thought to this. I've done rankings. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are the astir humiliating and pathetic radical successful each of firm media, and I realized there's a batch of superior contenders for that crown,' helium said.

Greenwald added that the hosts 'don't judge successful thing different than their ain vocation successful their ain ratings.'

Kelly adjacent agreed with typically hysterical ex-MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann's absorption to the pair.

She past fto a concealed retired that she had to crook down a nationalist lawsuit with Scarborough erstwhile she heard he'd been involved. 

'I was precocious asked to beryllium portion of a debate, and I was considering doing this debate, and past they told maine that Scarborough had been subbed successful for the different idiosyncratic who I was going to beryllium crossed from, and arsenic soon arsenic I heard his name, my reply was no. In nary satellite would I ever look with that cretin,' she said.

Kelly added: 'He is arsenic debased arsenic you tin spell successful our field, successful our media field, and that's saying something. He volition bash anything, accidental anything, to marque himself consciousness important.' 

Brzezinski said they decided to scope retired to Trump for 'the accidental to talk with the President-elect, himself' due to the fact that their viewers and 'regular citizens' person expressed fearfulness pursuing Trump's election and his caller furniture selections.

'On Friday, we were fixed the accidental to bash conscionable that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to conscionable personally with President-elect Trump. It was the archetypal clip we person seen him successful 7 years,' Brzezinski said arsenic she opened the amusement Monday.

Scarborough continued, saying the 3 'talked astir a batch of issues, including abortion, wide deportation, threats of governmental retribution against governmental opponents and media outlets.'

Trump and the 'Morning Joe' stars person had a contentious narration since the Republican entered authorities - with Scarborough leaving the Republican party as a result. 

Brzezinski revealed the past clip the hosts spoke to Trump was successful March of 2020 - different than when Scarborough called him aft the effort connected his beingness successful Butler, Pennsylvania, implicit the summer.

Trump said Scarborough requested the gathering and that brace traveled to Palm Beach, Florida, to conscionable connected Friday greeting astatine Mar-a-Lago.

'Many things were discussed, and I precise overmuch appreciated the information that they wanted to person unfastened communication,' helium said. 'In galore ways, it's excessively atrocious that it wasn't done agelong ago.'

Trump said that some of the hosts, 'congratulated maine connected moving a 'great and flawless campaign, 1 for the past books.'

The brace had not met with Trump successful 7 years.

But Trump appeared consenting to hide the hatchet connected Friday, describing the gathering arsenic 'extremely cordial.'

'The gathering ended successful a precise affirmative manner, and we agreed to talk successful the future,' helium said.

Despite striking up a lukewarm media narration erstwhile helium ran for president the archetypal clip successful 2016, Brzezinski and Scarborough had a falling retired with the president aft helium shocked the satellite and beat failed statesmanlike campaigner Hillary Clinton.

Scarborough and Brzezinski were soon highly captious of Trump's presidency, aft helium entered the White House, repeatedly condemning him connected their greeting quality program.

Brzezinski successful peculiar repeatedly needled Trump for being 'mentally ill' and speculated astir his request to spot a psychiatrist.

In June 2017, Trump fired backmost astatine the brace connected societal media, recalling however 'low I.Q. Crazy Mika, on with Psycho Joe,' came to Mar-a-lago for 3 nights successful a enactment during New Year's Eve, and were hopeless to walk clip with him.

The narration entered adjacent much bizarre territory by Christmas 2017, erstwhile Brzezinski and Scarborough recorded a holiday-themed medium called 'A Very Drumpf Christmas' with songs mocking the president. 

In 2018, the TV mates made it authoritative arsenic they were joined astatine a ceremonial astatine the National Archives successful beforehand of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, signaling their committedness to Democracy. 

Brzezinski said they decided to scope retired to Trump for 'the accidental to talk with the President-elect, himself' due to the fact that their viewers and 'regular citizens' person expressed fearfulness pursuing Trump's election and his caller furniture selections.

'On Friday, we were fixed the accidental to bash conscionable that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump,' Brzezinski revealed Monday morning. 

Scarborough said they spoke astir respective issues pressing the state reassuring viewers that that they and Trump 'didn't spot eye-to-eye connected a batch of issues and we told him so.'