“Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff fired back in a Thursday morning tweetstorm after MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski abruptly kicked him off set for denying that he smeared U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as having an affair with President Trump.

“My bad, the President is right about Mika,” Mr. Wolff tweeted. “To be invited on a show with the purpose of being thrown off…is the new television.”

Mr. Wolff appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel Thursday morning after being widely criticized for his implications that Mrs. Haley slept with the president. A day earlier, Mr. Wolff denied that he ever accused the ambassador of anything, but said she seemed to have “embraced” the rumor nonetheless. (Mrs. Haley has vehemently denied the rumor, calling it “disgusting” and “highly offensive.”)

The “Morning Joe” panel was dumbfounded after Mr. Wolff continued to deny fueling the speculation.

.@MichaelWolffNYC cut off on @Morning_Joe after claiming he didn’t accuse .@nikkihaley of anything. Bizarre segment.



The hosts praised “Fire and Fury” to Wolff’s face last month: “The spirit of it was completely true.” https://t.co/zmoyrgedL2 pic.twitter.com/JwqoSWeyAf — David Rutz (@DavidRutz) February 1, 2018

“You might be having a fun time playing a little game dancing around this, but you’re slurring a woman, it’s disgraceful,” Ms. Brzezinski said.

“Mika, again, she has been accused of nothing — she has decided to deny what she has not been accused of,” Mr. Wolff responded. “Certainly I did not accuse her of this.”

“Come on, are you kidding?” Ms. Brzezinski asked. “You’re on the set of Morning Joe, we don’t BS here.”

“If you don’t get what we’re talking about, I’m sorry, this is awkward, you’re here on the set with us, but we’re done,” Ms. Brzezinski said. “Michael Wolff, thank you. We’re going to go to break now.”

Mr. Wolff later tweeted that Ms. Brzezinski and her co-host and fiancé Joe Scarborough, who was not present on Thursday’s panel, had always been eager to gossip about the president’s sex life in the past.

To be invited on a show with the purpose of being thrown off…is the new television. — Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) February 1, 2018

In other words, I had to say what Mika wanted me to say, or else…the hook! — Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) February 1, 2018

And let me repeat: Nikki Haley has chosen to vociferously deny something she was not accused of. — Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) February 1, 2018

The last time I was on Morning Joe off camera Joe and Mika eager to gossip about who Trump might be sleeping with. — Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) February 1, 2018

It really would be hard to gossip more eagerly off camera than Mika and Joe gossip.

The president attacked Ms. Brzezinski on Twitter in June, dubbing her “low I.Q. Crazy Mika.”

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