Republican House Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney took President Trump to task over his tweets about the death of a former congressional staffer who worked for MSNBC host Joe Scarborough when he was a member of Congress in 2001.
Trump tweeted repeatedly this month that he believed Scarborough “got away with murder” and claimed it was the reason why he left Congress. Scarborough denied any involvement in the woman’s death and announced his resignation from Congress months before she died.
On Wednesday, Trump pushed the conspiracy theory again in a tweet, saying that in 2001, Scarborough murdered former staffer Lori Klausutis. Trump claimed new facts were “coming out.”
“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!” Trump tweeted.
“I do think the president should stop tweeting about Joe Scarborough. I think that we’re in the middle of a pandemic. He’s the commander in chief of this nation, and it’s causing great pain to the family of the young woman who died,” Cheney told reporters. “So I urge him to stop. The president should stop tweeting about it.”
Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, also pleaded for the president to cease tweeting about Scarborough’s former staffer.
Timothy Klausutis, the widow of Lori Klaustis, recently wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, requesting that Dorsey remove the president’s tweets about his deceased wife, but the platform rejected his request.
