“I think you’d just go to him. He’s a bully, and you don’t let bullies bully people. You just mock him,” Scarborough said…

“He is insecure,” Scarborough confided. “That’s always driven him — I’ll say it — batshit crazy.”…

But it’s not just business it’s personal. Like a nephew freed to dish on a domineering uncle after being cut out of the will, Scarborough lurched forward in his chair when I asked what specifically got under Trump’s paper-thin skin.

“Ratings, numbers,” he said with a laugh. “Saying that Bernie Sanders draws more people than him. Mocking him for only having 5,000 people at [a Washington D.C. rally over Memorial Day weekend] when he thought he was going to have 400,000.”…

Scarborough sees the real culprit of Trump-enabling not at his own desk but at a rival network’s – and he related an off-air conversation with Trump about CNN boss Jeff Zucker that he believes to be revealing, and not in a good way. “He and Zucker are very close. Zucker personally calls Trump,” Scarborough said. “[Zucker] books Trump. “And Trumps laughs and calls Zucker ‘my personal booker’ because Zucker will call Trump. He hasn’t said that publicly, but he’s said it. I’ve said it publicly now. Trump will laugh every time Zucker calls.”