Husband of Scarborough aide who died in 2001 speaks out about Trump's conspiracy tweets: 'It's just

[LiberalArkie]

Husband of Scarborough aide who died in 2001 speaks out about Trump's conspiracy tweets: 'It's just inhuman'

September 8, 2020

The widower of a onetime aide to Joe Scarborough, the former congressman turned MSNBC host, told Yahoo News in a series of emotional interviews that the conspiracy theories about the death of his wife — promoted by President Trump on Twitter and embraced by the devotees of the QAnon conspiracy cult — have caused “inhuman” pain and anguish for him and his late wife’s family.

“It got to the point that I literally could not stomach this,” T.J. Klausutis, an Air Force engineer, said in exclusive interviews for a new three-episode season of the Yahoo News podcast “Conspiracyland.” Titled “A Death in Florida,” the “Conspiracyland” series explores the circumstances surrounding the July 2001 death of Klausutis’s wife, Lori, and how they triggered nearly two decades of conspiracy theories, first pushed by liberal bloggers and more recently adopted and turbocharged by Trump and his allies.

“I’ll use the term ‘suffering,’ quite honestly,” Klausutis said about the impact of the steady barrage of social media postings, complete with malicious and demonstrably false claims, about what happened to his wife. “And nobody, and I mean nobody, should have to be used in such a fashion. ... It’s just inhuman.”

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But Twitter has yet to take down Trump’s tweets about Lori Klausutis — a stance that continues to infuriate her husband. A medical autopsy found that, while working in the Fort Walton Beach, Fla., office of then-Rep. Scarborough in 2001, she died in a tragic accident caused by an undiagnosed heart condition. The local police found no evidence of foul play.

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https://news.yahoo.com/husband-of-scarborough-aide-who-died-in-2001-speaks-out-about-trumps-conspiracy-tweets-its-just-inhuman-090015447.html

[brooklynite]

1. Good thing you'd never read something like that here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212049889

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10026854526

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213388587

[LiberalArkie]

3. Yep, but I guess people still can't believe that people can die from accidents or even self

inflicted gun shots. Always has to be a conspiracy.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. DU went through a lengthy period of time

where it was acceptable to openly accuse Scarborough of involvement in the death of this poor woman. He was referred to as ‘dead intern’ regularly. I hope we’re over this conspiracy theory on DU.

[LiberalArkie]

4. This is the best article I have read on the accident. It is long but it is a good read on what her

husband has been through over the years.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. It is good

Anyone who perpetuates this CT from now on is in the company of deplorables.

[Eyeball_Kid]

17. I regret having used rhetoric that could have inflamed this issue.

The victim's spouse ought to be left alone. He's suffered way too much.

[Beakybird]

5. Thanks for admonishing lefties ready to jump on the conspiracy theory bandwagon.

[LiberalArkie]

7. Oh everyone likes a good CT. I, for myself, like to cling to real life like the photos of Trump with

his human suit removed and relaxing in his lizard skin.

[CaptYossarian]

8. The lizard skin is what keeps him so tight with McTurtle.

Now I have to get those sunglasses from They Live to watch C-SPAN.

[StClone]

13. Some of our big Liberal Voices in the Past

Did make similar statements of suspicion in regard to the Scarborough aide's death. BartCop (God has him now) in his day and others did. I have to say I did not repeat it. They gave into thoughts there maybe was more to the story. There wasn't: It was just a tragic death.

[Wednesdays]

18. Bartcop's take was mostly on the hypocrisy of the press

Yes, he cast aspersions about what happened to Lori Klausutis. However, that occurred in the summer of 2001, when the main stream media was breathless in it's coverage of Gary Condit and the disappearance/death of his intern, while Scarborough got virtually no press at all, and Bartcop was very vocal in pointing that out.

An aide dying suddenly in a congressman's office should normally be huge news, regardless of the circumstances.

[StClone]

19. That is a take I had not considered

If so, Ole BartCop was pretty convincing in making me believe it a suspicious death. Thanks for the clarification. I really miss Terry.

[Saboburns]

9. They. Don't. Fucking. Care.

These people are heartless Nazi bastards and should be treated as such.

Fuck them Forver.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[UTUSN]

11. K&R

[PJMcK]

12. Scarborough is a blowhard

I find him to be unwatchable because he never shuts up. He consistently talks over his guests and co-hosts and it's clear he loves the sound of his own voice.

BUT HE DIDN'T KILL LORI KLAUSUTIS!

He wasn't even at his office when she died.

Jeez.

[Earthshine2]

14. Mika generally runs a fine show on those days when he takes off.

He is truly my least favorite MSNBC host.

[dlk]

15. Time to call an attorney

At least for cease and desist letters. Another loathsome example that the cruelty is the point.

[Skittles]

16. Mr. Klusutis is correct

Trump fails not just as a president, but as a decent human being