Trump is creating more controversy this morning with his tweets about Joe Scarborough and a woman who died 20 years ago, leading Twitter to issue a statement apologizing for his tweets and promising to soon implement new policies to deal with the tweets:
FOX NEWS – President Trump’s ongoing Twitter attacks on MSNBC host Joe Scarborough have gotten so ugly that the social media giant issued a statement regarding calls to limit the president’s use of its platform.
For several weeks, Trump has implied through tweets that Scarborough is responsible for the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, a staffer who died in his office when he was a Republican congressman.
Trump continued to tweet about Klausutis’ death on Tuesday morning despite significant backlash from all corners, prompting Twitter to issue a statement.
“We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family. We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly,” a Twitter spokesperson told Fox News.
This morning Trump tweeted the following:
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….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020
….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 has been back on this now for a couple of weeks, and even the widower of the woman who died is calling on Twitter to delete Trump’s tweets because it’s just too painful for him:
Scarborough addressed the situation on Tuesday morning, condemning Trump’s tweets, before Brzezinski read a letter that Klausutis’s widower sent to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey urging him to intervene and remove the tweets that he said are distorting his wife’s memory for perceived political gain.
“Nearly 19 years ago, my wife, who had an undiagnosed heart condition, fell and hit her head on her desk at work. She was found dead the next morning. Her name is Lori Kaye Klausutis and she was 28 years old when she died. Her passing is the single most painful thing that I have ever had to deal with in my 52 years and continues to haunt her parents and sister,” Timothy J. Klausutis wrote. “I have mourned my wife every day since her passing.”
Klausutis continued: “There has been a constant barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, innuendo and conspiracy theories since the day she died. I realize that may sound like an exaggeration, unfortunately it is the verifiable truth. Because of this, I have struggled to move forward with my life.”
He then explained to Twitter’s boss that the president was “disparaging the memory” of his late wife on the social media platform.
“The frequency, intensity, ugliness, and promulgation of these horrifying lies ever increases on the internet. These conspiracy theorists, including most recently the President of the United States, continue to spread their bile and misinformation on your platform disparaging the memory of my wife and our marriage. 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,” Klausutis added. “My request is simple: Please delete these tweets.”
This is the petty, vindictive side of Trump that I really don’t like. I get that he doesn’t like the coverage he’s getting from Morning Joe and he’s not wrong about it. But he’s the president of the United States and he really needs to act like it. Yes, we know that means something different for Trump than it does for most other presidents. Even so, it’s stuff like this that just feeds the left’s narrative about Trump and pushes some, who may be on the fence regarding whether to vote for Trump, to the other side.
If Trump has a problem with Morning Joe and his coverage, attack the coverage and leave the conspiracy theories out of it. Trump is already a victim of huge media bias against him. There’s just no need to turn people against him now with stuff like this. It the words of the First Lady, “Be best”.