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Trump Lies and Claims That Family of Lori Klausutis Agrees with His Conspiracy Theory on Joe Scarborough
Ugh, this is just so gross.
Reporters pressed Donald Trump over his ongoing series of personal attacks on MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, which have included promoting a baseless conspiracy theory that the Morning Joe host was nefariously involved in the death of his former staffer, Lori Klausutis.
During a Rose Garden press briefing on Tuesday, Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason brought up the smear campaign Trump has been conducting against Scarborough.
“Yeah, a lot of people suggest that,” Trump said, failing to name a single person who has pushed the debunked conspiracy theory besides himself. “Hopefully some day, people are going to find out. It’s suspicious. Sad, very sad and very suspicious.”
When Mason trend to follow up by asking about what Klausutis’ widower wrote to Twitter, begging the social media company to remove the offending tweets because the president has “perverted” the memory of his former wife, Trump quickly moved on to another reporter. But the next one he called on asked about the same thing.
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“Mr. President, though, have you seen the letter that was written by her husband begging Twitter to delete your tweets, talking about how hard it’s been for his family, to deal with it?” the second reporter asked.
“Yeah, I have,” Trump quickly replied. “I’m sure ultimately they want to get to the bottom of it and it’s a very serious situation,” he claimed, bizarrely suggesting that the same family condemning his false claims about Klausutis’ death also simultaneously support his false claims about her death being the result of foul play. “It’s a very suspicious thing and I hope somebody gets to the bottom of it. It will be a very good thing.”
"A lot of people suggest that … very sad and very suspicious … there is no statute of limitations. So, it would be a very good thing to do" — Trump defends pushing false Joe Scarborough conspiracy theories and calls for him to be investigated pic.twitter.com/NeJQ2uBZp8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 26, 2020
Twitter was sickened:
Notice the smirk on his face the entire time he’s speaking. He knows what he’s doing and doesn’t give a shit about the grieving family. He says “I’m sure they want to get to the bottom of it” despite the fact that they’re literally asking him to stop because it’s painful. https://t.co/CNh1dq8hpB
— Exposing Lies (@CrimsonThings11) May 26, 2020
Scarborough should sue this asshole.
So should the husband. https://t.co/sFf8sxuXOJ
— *you're (@RKJ65) May 26, 2020
You are a disgusting human being. https://t.co/4s2MJimASv
— Fourteenstories (@TrumpMustGo9) May 26, 2020
What a pathetic worm. Just imagine the lowest creature you can think of. Trump is what lives in that creature's shit. https://t.co/HWyiqXzA8s
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 26, 2020
when you falsely accuse someone or murdering someone who died in an accident caused by her heart condition and her widower begs you to stop spreading bullshit conspiracy theories about her death https://t.co/oAbQSsoIRF
— David Bixenspan (@davidbix) May 26, 2020
The president is a maniacal, sadistic, egotistical scumbucket of mistruths, and I am very perplexed as to why I am not called to action. #25thNow https://t.co/s1nsRQ6P9t
— The 25th AMENDMENT (@TheReal25thAmen) May 26, 2020
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