President Donald Trump responded to this morning’s bombshell news about Matt Lauer in a series tweets, asking when NBC and Comcast will fire its “top executives” for “putting out so much Fake News” as well as calling for an investigation of “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for an “‘unsolved mystery’ that took place in Florida years ago”:
Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack’s past!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/935870484146683904
Update — Trump deleted the tweet above and replaced it with this:
So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2017
Now, we have no idea what “unsolved mystery” Trump is talking about here, but we will assume it’s about Scarborough’s intern who died in 2001:
Is Trump insinuating that @JoeNBC had something to do with the death of his intern, Lori Klausutis, in 2001?
Medical examiner said Klausutis died after heart problems caused her to fall and hit her head on the desk. No apparent signs of foul play. https://t.co/R7SmEXdyOn
— Julian Routh (@julianrouth) November 29, 2017
The Scarborough reference is likely to the baseless rumors that Scarborough was involved in the death of an employee in his Congressional office. https://t.co/zme5iTgqgg
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 29, 2017
I CALLED IT!!
I knew he would eventually bring up the intern!!!https://t.co/IPgiDw02vW
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) November 29, 2017
Trump has seemingly accused Joe Scarborough of killing his former aide Lori Klausutis (the autopsy states she died of an accident caused by cardiac arrhythmia) https://t.co/VZIhny2AuZ
— Alex Clearfield (@AlexClearfield) November 29, 2017
This is the president of the United States pushing a baseless conspiracy theory that an MSNBC host murdered one of his staff. https://t.co/p6zlNsZbN6
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/935872968684724224
Over to you, NBC:
Okay, NBC. Time to release those APPRENTICE tapes. https://t.co/wYZGjfNXfN
— Norm Wilner (@normwilner) November 29, 2017
Update — Joe Scarborough responds:
Looks like I picked a good day to stop responding to Trump's bizarre tweets. He is not well. https://t.co/XJhW5ZHNfs
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) November 29, 2017
Editor’s note: This post has been updated.
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