By Corbin Bolies

It was one year ago that Joe Scarborough and his “Morning Joe” cohost and wife Mika Brzezinski were embroiled in what he now dismisses as a “so-called scandal.” The MSNBC duo visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his 2024 election victory, sparking fears that frequent critics of the president-elect were now bending the knee. 

“I had to say to the Washington Post, ‘Excuse me, this is a second article you guys have written about me. Your people are going to Mar-a-Lago and talking to him all the time,’” Scarborough told TheWrap. “So that was the preposterousness of it. The only difference between us and what Washington Post and New York Times and CNN and ABC reporters [do] is we were transparent. We actually told people, ‘Hey, we went to talk to the president.’ They didn’t, and for some reason, everybody was shocked and stunned and deeply saddened.”