Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested it was “pretty unusual” that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead with a pillow over his head last Saturday.
“Donald, I need to come back to the topic we’ve all been screaming about here, which is Scalia, was he murdered?” Michael Savage, a conservative talk radio host, asked the billionaire during an interview on his program. “I know it’s pretty brutal to say that, and I’m not wanting to drag you into this, but this is going to be bigger and bigger and bigger.”
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“I went on the air and said we need the equivalent of a Warren Commission, we need an immediate autopsy before the body is disposed of. What do you think of that?” Savage asked, referring to the seven-man commission charged with investigating the assassination of
“Well I just heard today,” Trump said about reports that Houston businessman John Poindexter, who owned the ranch where Scalia was vacationing at the time of his death, found the esteemed conservative justice with a pillow over his face, but his pajamas “unwrinkled.”
“I just landed and I’m hearing it’s a big topic,” Trump added. “But they say they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.”
“I can’t tell you – I can’t give you an answer,” he said.
Minutes before the GOP candidate joined the program, Savage suggested the U.S. government is “corrupt enough” to have some involvement in the death of Scalia. He also said the justice’s passing “stinks to high heaven.”
Scalia was declared dead from natural causes. The justice had suffered from a heart condition and high blood pressure.
