On Tuesday, the United States seemed set to hit a total of 100,000 deaths due to the Coronavirus — as of about 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, the total already stood at 99,846, according to one source. Also on Tuesday, President Donald Trump yet again promoted his insane conspiracy theory that former Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough had something nefarious to do with the death of a staffer in his Congressional office. There is not a single remotely credible shred of evidence supporting the president’s conspiracy theory, and the widower of the late staffer has even written to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to request that the president’s conspiracies be removed from the platform, but none of that stopped the president, who proved willfully and ignorantly malicious yet again.
DISGUSTING: Florida family grieves again as Trump spreads debunked conspiracy theory over their daughter’s accidental death 20 years ago, in Trump’s pathetic effort to attack MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. https://t.co/CRF4TeB6PG
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) May 26, 2020
Trump tweeted:
‘The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought, this has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus. In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total Nut Job, and I knew him well, far better than most. So many unanswered & obvious questions, but I won’t bring them up now! Law enforcement eventually will?’
….about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total Nut Job, and I knew him well, far better than most. So many unanswered & obvious questions, but I won’t bring them up now! Law enforcement eventually will?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
Trump’s suggestion that there is anything for law enforcement to even look into is absolutely ludicrous and has no relationship to reality.
The dead woman’s husband has begged the president of the United States to stop spreading this conspiracy theory. Because there is no cold case. https://t.co/euaumCttmW
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 26, 2020
The late staffer’s name was Lori Klausutis, and her widowed husband Timothy wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey:
‘President Trump on Tuesday tweeted to his nearly 80 million followers alluding to the repeatedly debunked falsehood that my wife was murdered by her boss, former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough… My request is simple: please delete these tweets… I am now angry as well as frustrated and grieved… the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him – the memory of my dead wife – and perverted it for perceived political gain… My wife deserves better.’
Timothy Klausutis, the widower of Lori Klausutis, has written to Jack Dorsey asking him to delete tweets by President Trump spreading a debunked conspiracy theory about his late wife’s death and @JoeNBC
His letter is heartbreaking@karaswisher reports https://t.co/bcCw3E895f pic.twitter.com/rHHL7XcxUu
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 26, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below:
Is this response to NYT reporting that the widower begged Twitter to take down tweets relating to his wife?
“[Trump] has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain.”https://t.co/fJbgNRPlXg https://t.co/qEO3UJmoen
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) May 26, 2020
Trump's depravity is only exceeded by those who enable it, embrace it, accept it or are attracted by it. https://t.co/4BbVtDyIh3
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) May 26, 2020
The entire Republican Party virtually without exception is embracing running in 2020 on a campaign that is built on slanders, lies, threats, conspiracy theories, racism & sexism. This is what they choose to run on. This is who they choose to follow. This is who they all are. https://t.co/4BbVtDyIh3
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) May 26, 2020
1. Her name was Lori Klausutis and she died of natural causes (https://t.co/As4ET3QEad). It's not a cold case
2. Klausutis's widower is demanding Trump stop exploiting his dead ex-wife and urged Twitter to take down these tweets (https://t.co/K5sToMgfOc)
3. Trump is a monster https://t.co/OFlD7mvpGF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 26, 2020
we should hit 100k dead today https://t.co/KOWZ8Buu5k
— David Mack (@davidmackau) May 26, 2020
The level of irresponsibility and selfishness on display here is simply off the charts https://t.co/Fn38xJ1LzJ
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 26, 2020
Trump trying to get in a couple final shots on this, in case @jack bans him I guess https://t.co/t84xcSMAGl
— Josh "Cordon Sanitaire" Gerstein (@joshgerstein) May 26, 2020
The measure of a man is not how they handle winning but how they handle losing. If you thought winner Trump was bad, just wait. https://t.co/UKXZ176vq3
— Mindy Finn (@mindyfinn) May 26, 2020
The sitting president is accusing a talk show host of murder while Jack Dorsey twiddles his thumbs. https://t.co/tsLKFlHG6p
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) May 26, 2020
The Emperor Nero for C21st: @realDonaldTrump is
a man of power with neither empathy nor common sense nor respect for facts. His powerful gibberish is an insult to a dead woman and her still grieving widower years since she died. @jack: take Trump's nonsense down. https://t.co/hGWddyPJGh— John Sweeney (@johnsweeneyroar) May 26, 2020
