Piers Morgan called on President Trump to put an end to his repeated linking of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to a 2001 death of a former congressional aide.
“Stop this, Mr. President,” the British TV presenter tweeted on Wednesday. “You’re fuelling a sickening conspiracy theory that is a demonstrable, proven lie. What you’re doing is not only grotesquely unfair to @JoeNBC but more importantly, unbelievably hurtful to the family of the poor woman who died. STOP it.”
Stop this, Mr President.
You’re fuelling a sickening conspiracy theory that is a demonstrable, proven lie.
What you’re doing is not only grotesquely unfair to @JoeNBC but more importantly, unbelievably hurtful to the family of the poor woman who died. STOP it. https://t.co/sY1az3yMhc— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 27, 2020
Morgan’s plea was in reference to Trump calling for a murder investigation into the death of 28-year-old Lori Klausutis, who died in 2001 while fainting and hitting her head while working in a Florida regional office for Scarborough when he was a Republican member of Congress. The president has been pushing the conspiracy theory on Twitter over the past few weeks, tweeting on Wednesday that Scarborough is “rattled.”
“Psycho Joe Scarborough is rattled, not only by his bad ratings but all of the things and facts that are coming out on the internet about opening a Cold Case. He knows what is happening!” he wrote.
Timothy Klausutis, Lori’s widower, has urged the president to stop, and he wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and asked him to remove Trump’s tweets regarding his wife. While the social media platform apologized for the president’s claims, it did not remove his posts.
Morgan, once a supporter of Trump, has strayed away from the president and recently called his comments about injecting disinfectant to protect against the coronavirus “reckless” and “dangerous.” Other members of the media have also chided Trump for the Scarborough allegations, including Fox News’s Brit Hume.
