Two TV moderators assaulted on Twitter by President Donald Trump have blamed him for lying and proposed the White House attempted to extort them.
The hosts of MSNBC Morning Joe said they were cautioned a newspaper would run a negative story on them unless they said sorry for their scope of Mr Trump.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Mr Trump's tweets were "horrible" and "unnerving".
The president called them "low IQ insane Mika" and "Psycho Joe" on Thursday.
He additionally alluded to Ms Brzezinski as "draining seriously from a facelift".
The couple, who are locked in to be hitched, composed a joint reaction in Friday's Washington Post blaming the president for an "unfortunate fixation" with them.
A story heightening - Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
What began yesterday as an undignified individual spat between Donald Trump and the hosts of a link news demonstrate has transformed into something significantly more vile - claims of White House ruses that tread near through and through coercion.
On the off chance that what Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough say is valid, they were the objectives of political dim expressions reminiscent of the plans of the Watergate "fixers" amid the Nixon White House. Could Trump assistants have truly utilized the danger of a humiliating story in a newspaper daily paper to weight the two hosts to give more good scope?
The Trump organization will clearly deny the charges, in spite of the fact that the president himself loaned some support by tweeting that Scarborough requesting that he advise the National Enquirer to cover an article about him.
That the president said he rejected such a demand just brings up more issues about the article control Mr Trump may have over a daily paper that routinely focused on his political rivals in 2016.
Where this story goes from here is impossible to say. Odds are, nonetheless, that the president - by means of his unchecked Twitter bull horn - will just stoke the fire.
Co-presenters Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were both targets of Donald Trump's Twitter tirade
They denied his cases they had burned through three evenings at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last New Year's Eve and that they had "demanded" on investing energy with him.
Rather they said they turned down his welcome to go to his merry gathering.
They kept: "Setting aside Mr Trump's ceaseless fixation on ladies' blood, Mika and her face were splendidly in place, as pictures from that night uncover."
On their morning appear, Ms Brzezinski denied having had a cosmetic touch up, saying she had a strategy to get the skin under her jaw "changed".
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday
The TV moderators likewise said three White House authorities had revealed to them the National Enquirer would distribute a negative article about them unless they apologized to Mr Trump for their investigation of him.
Mr Scarborough stated: "They stated, 'in the event that you ring the president and you apologize for your scope then he'll get the telephone and essentially spike the story.'"
"I had, I will simply say, three individuals at the exceptionally top of the organization calling me."
Ms Brzezinski said correspondents from the store newspaper started bugging her family.
"They were calling my kids," she said. "They were calling dear companions.
"These calls endured for a long while and afterward Joe had the discussions that he had with the White House where they said 'goodness, this could leave'."
David Pecker, CEO of the Enquirer's parent organization, is a staunch partner of Mr Trump, which is reflected in the newspaper's scope of the president.
Yet, in a Friday morning tweet, Mr Trump denied the couple's cases, saying Mr Scarborough "called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no!"
Mr Scarborough quickly hit back: "Yet another lie. I have writings from your top assistants and telephone records. Additionally, those records demonstrate I haven't talked with you in numerous months."
Mr Scarborough likewise said that an "outstanding congressman" had revealed to him that the president went on a "rage" against the show amid a meeting with around 20 lawmakers at the White House to talk about endeavors to pass human services enactment.
"I've been in legislative issues my entire life. … He terrified me," Mr Scarborough stated, portraying what the source had let him know.
"Since he was horrendous when he turned from you to Mika," he depicted being told.
"His face was red. He began discussing blood leaving her ears, out of her eyes."
Democrats held a news conference condemning President Trump's tweets
The Enquirer's owner said on Friday morning the tabloid had published a story at the beginning of June about the couple's relationship "the truth of which is not in dispute".
Dylan Howard, vice-president of the publication's parent company, added in the statement: "We have no knowledge of any discussions between the White House and Joe and Mika about our story, and absolutely no involvement in those discussions."
The Enquirer's Twitter account retweeted their article on Friday, with a headline about "Morning Joe Couple's Sleazy Cheating Scandal!"
Mr Trump's original tweet about the MSNBC hosts provoked a storm of criticism, including even from some fellow Republicans.
Senator Lindsey Graham said Mr Trump's remarks on Thursday were "beneath the office" of president.
The hosts of MSNBC Morning Joe said they were cautioned a newspaper would run a negative story on them unless they said sorry for their scope of Mr Trump.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Mr Trump's tweets were "horrible" and "unnerving".
The president called them "low IQ insane Mika" and "Psycho Joe" on Thursday.
He additionally alluded to Ms Brzezinski as "draining seriously from a facelift".
The couple, who are locked in to be hitched, composed a joint reaction in Friday's Washington Post blaming the president for an "unfortunate fixation" with them.
A story heightening - Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
What began yesterday as an undignified individual spat between Donald Trump and the hosts of a link news demonstrate has transformed into something significantly more vile - claims of White House ruses that tread near through and through coercion.
On the off chance that what Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough say is valid, they were the objectives of political dim expressions reminiscent of the plans of the Watergate "fixers" amid the Nixon White House. Could Trump assistants have truly utilized the danger of a humiliating story in a newspaper daily paper to weight the two hosts to give more good scope?
The Trump organization will clearly deny the charges, in spite of the fact that the president himself loaned some support by tweeting that Scarborough requesting that he advise the National Enquirer to cover an article about him.
That the president said he rejected such a demand just brings up more issues about the article control Mr Trump may have over a daily paper that routinely focused on his political rivals in 2016.
Where this story goes from here is impossible to say. Odds are, nonetheless, that the president - by means of his unchecked Twitter bull horn - will just stoke the fire.
Co-presenters Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were both targets of Donald Trump's Twitter tiradeThey denied his cases they had burned through three evenings at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last New Year's Eve and that they had "demanded" on investing energy with him.
Rather they said they turned down his welcome to go to his merry gathering.
They kept: "Setting aside Mr Trump's ceaseless fixation on ladies' blood, Mika and her face were splendidly in place, as pictures from that night uncover."
On their morning appear, Ms Brzezinski denied having had a cosmetic touch up, saying she had a strategy to get the skin under her jaw "changed".
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday The TV moderators likewise said three White House authorities had revealed to them the National Enquirer would distribute a negative article about them unless they apologized to Mr Trump for their investigation of him.
Mr Scarborough stated: "They stated, 'in the event that you ring the president and you apologize for your scope then he'll get the telephone and essentially spike the story.'"
"I had, I will simply say, three individuals at the exceptionally top of the organization calling me."
Ms Brzezinski said correspondents from the store newspaper started bugging her family.
"These calls endured for a long while and afterward Joe had the discussions that he had with the White House where they said 'goodness, this could leave'."
David Pecker, CEO of the Enquirer's parent organization, is a staunch partner of Mr Trump, which is reflected in the newspaper's scope of the president.
Yet, in a Friday morning tweet, Mr Trump denied the couple's cases, saying Mr Scarborough "called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no!"
Mr Scarborough quickly hit back: "Yet another lie. I have writings from your top assistants and telephone records. Additionally, those records demonstrate I haven't talked with you in numerous months."
Mr Scarborough likewise said that an "outstanding congressman" had revealed to him that the president went on a "rage" against the show amid a meeting with around 20 lawmakers at the White House to talk about endeavors to pass human services enactment.
"I've been in legislative issues my entire life. … He terrified me," Mr Scarborough stated, portraying what the source had let him know.
"Since he was horrendous when he turned from you to Mika," he depicted being told.
"His face was red. He began discussing blood leaving her ears, out of her eyes."
Democrats held a news conference condemning President Trump's tweets
The Enquirer's owner said on Friday morning the tabloid had published a story at the beginning of June about the couple's relationship "the truth of which is not in dispute".
Dylan Howard, vice-president of the publication's parent company, added in the statement: "We have no knowledge of any discussions between the White House and Joe and Mika about our story, and absolutely no involvement in those discussions."
The Enquirer's Twitter account retweeted their article on Friday, with a headline about "Morning Joe Couple's Sleazy Cheating Scandal!"
Mr Trump's original tweet about the MSNBC hosts provoked a storm of criticism, including even from some fellow Republicans.
Senator Lindsey Graham said Mr Trump's remarks on Thursday were "beneath the office" of president.
