By Allan Smith
Business Insider
June 30, 2017
If President Donald Trump or members of his administration told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough that a National Enquirer hit piece would be published unless they provided the president with better coverage, that would be a crime, a Harvard law professor said.
Laurence Tribe, a liberal Harvard Law School professor who worked in the Obama administration, tweeted that if the White House told Brzezinski and Scarborough that the tabloid would “smear them unless they laid off” Trump, it would be a violation of the anti-extortion statute.