Morning Joe hosts agreed to Trump meeting over fears of Joe Scarborough intern death probe, report claims

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Twitter remains silent about Trump’s appalling attack against Joe Scarborough


Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN Business
Published 11:28 PM EDT, Sun May 24, 2020


New York CNN Business — A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.


President Trump’s appalling tweets have real world consequences. Take his reckless posts about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. For the past few weeks, Trump has been insinuating that Scarborough was responsible for the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, who worked in his Florida office when he was a GOP congressman.

This conspiracy theory, ironically, fueled left-wing attacks against Scarborough in 2001. It was debunked back then, but it’s been revived now, by right-wing attackers, because Scarborough and his show “Morning Joe” are vociferous critics of Trump. Trump claimed on Sunday that there’s “a lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe.”

This is beyond the pale, and every honest broker in politics and media knows it. As Mediaite’s Josh Feldman noted here, Trump is being “roundly trashed” for pushing the conspiracy. If you’re unsure about the facts, read the old fact checks from the AP and other news outlets.

The president is promoting a repugnant conspiracy theory and ignoring the actual facts of the case because he wants to drag Scarborough’s name through the mud. His smears are also hurting the Klausutis family. Family members declined my interview requests in recent days… and this story in The Washington Post articulates the reasons why: “No one in Klausutis’s family would talk about Trump’s tweets for this article, fearing retaliation by online trolls of the type who went after parents of the Sandy Hook massacre victims… ‘There’s a lot we would love to say, but we can’t,’ said Colin Kelly, who was Klausutis’s brother-in-law.”

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