HNY! From Mar-a-Lago

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! While it is not “fake news” that he showed up at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve, it is “fake news” that he went there to party. Best-selling author Ron Kessler should know; he was within a few feet of Scarborough. Kessler was a paying guest with his wife Pamela (author and former Washington Post writer) and witness to the kerfuffle that ensued between Scarborough and other media folks in the twitterspheare. Kessler attests that he saw him with his co-host Mika Brzezinski – he dressed in a sports jacket and thin tie, she in Capri pants – pass through the penguin crowd and ascend to the terrace level, but not for champagne and caviar on blini, cocktail shrimp and sushi and not as a black tie guest at the opulent affair; thus confirming what Joe has said all along that he wants to make it very clear that he did not party with Donald Trump!

Maggie Haberman from The New York Times posted a picture on @maggieNYT of Kessler in the foreground of a photo with Joe and Trump. “What happened was that he and Mica came in very briefly at the very beginning and chatted for a few minutes with Donald and then went up the staircase to the terrace level to have their meeting. They didn’t partake in anything, they just met him there and just walked off. Scarborough is telling the truth, but I can understand why there was confusion over it,” said Kessler. “The meeting was arranged before hand to try to persuade him (Trump) to do an interview in the future.” Mar-a-Lago is President-Elect Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, expected to be his Camp David. from The New York Times posted a picture on @maggieNYT of Kessler in the foreground of a photo with Joe and Trump. “What happened was that he and Mica came in very briefly at the very beginning and chatted for a few minutes with Donald and then went up the staircase to the terrace level to have their meeting. They didn’t partake in anything, they just met him there and just walked off. Scarborough is telling the truth, but I can understand why there was confusion over it,” said Kessler. “The meeting was arranged before hand to try to persuade him (Trump) to do an interview in the future.” Mar-a-Lago is President-Elect Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, expected to be his Camp David.