– David Frum: “Yesterday, the president accused a prominent citizen of murder. All people of good will – and even some with less than good will – should reckon with it.” – NRO’s Jay Nordlinger: “What Trump is engaged in here is sick beyond belief. This is why even his critics should want DJT to play a lot of golf, because when he does, he’s not tweeting crap like this.” – Fox’s Brit Hume reacting to one of Trump’s shameful posts: “30K retweets for this discredited tale, based on a three-year old post from some wing-ding website. 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.” His smears are also hurting the Klausutis family.
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. If you’re unsure about the facts, read the old fact checks from the AP and other news outlets. As Mediaite’s Josh Feldman noted here, Trump is being “roundly trashed” for pushing the conspiracy. This is beyond the pale, and every honest broker in politics and media knows it. Trump claimed on Sunday that there’s “a lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe.” 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. This conspiracy theory, ironically, fueled left-wing attacks against Scarborough in 2001. 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. Take his reckless posts about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. President Trump’s appalling tweets have real world consequences. A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.
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