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If you have not been following this little Trump melodrama, you have some fun Twitter reading ahead of you. Just when you think Trump cannot do anything to surprise you, he does. I had been aware that he was once friendly with the hosts of the television program "Morning Joe". The relationship changed over the years since Trump became president, but I never knew about this story. Donald Trump was smearing Joe Scarborough on Twitter, falsely accusing him of murdering his secretary when he was a young congressman.
"WASHINGTON — President Trump smeared a prominent television host on Tuesday from the lectern in the Rose Garden with an unfounded allegation of murder, taking the politics of rage and conspiracy theory to a new level even as much of the political world barely took notice.
In an attack that once would have been unthinkable for a sitting president, Mr. Trump all but accused Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who now hosts the MSNBC show 'Morning Joe,' of killing a staff member in 2001 even though he was 800 miles away at the time and the police ruled her death an accident."
"WASHINGTON — President Trump smeared a prominent television host on Tuesday from the lectern in the Rose Garden with an unfounded allegation of murder, taking the politics of rage and conspiracy theory to a new level even as much of the political world barely took notice.
In an attack that once would have been unthinkable for a sitting president, Mr. Trump all but accused Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who now hosts the MSNBC show 'Morning Joe,' of killing a staff member in 2001 even though he was 800 miles away at the time and the police ruled her death an accident."
Trump Pushes a Conspiracy Theory That Falsely Accuses a TV Host of Murder (Published 2020)
On Twitter and at a news conference, the president said Joe Scarborough was responsible for the death of Lori Klausutis, who worked for him when he was a congressman. But Twitter refused her husband’s request to have the false tweets removed.
www.nytimes.com