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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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This episode traces the conspiracy theories about Lori Klausutis as they evolved over the years, starting with liberal activists such as Markos Moulitsas, founder of the blog Daily Kos, who was once banned from MSNBC for pushing the media to investigate Joe Scarborough’s alleged role in Lori Klausutis’s death. The episode also explores the feud between President Trump and Scarborough. The two were once on friendly terms, with Trump appearing as a frequent guest on “Morning Joe.” “Conspiracyland” includes rare clips of their off-camera coziness during the 2016 campaign: “You know you have me as almost a legendary figure,” Trump tells Scarborough and his MSNBC co-host, Mika Brezezinski. But after he became president, Scarborough and Trump had a falling-out during a lunch at the White House, resulting in Scarborough becoming a relentless critic and Trump reaching deep into the TV host’s past to get his revenge.
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0:13.0 | I'll just speak louder sir. You want to be politically correct. No, sir, I just want to wear the mask. Go ahead, go ahead. The second question was about your tweets about the woman who died who you're suggesting |
0:17.0 | that Joe Scarlboro was responsible. |
0:19.0 | Yeah, a lot of people suggest that, and hopefully someday people are going to find out. |
0:24.3 | It's certainly a very suspicious situation, very sad, very sad and very suspicious. |
0:29.4 | Mr. President though, have you seen the letter that was written by her husband begging Twitter to delete your |
0:35.0 | tweets, talking about how hard it's been for his family, for him to deal with that? |
0:38.6 | But I'm sure that ultimately they want to get to the bottom of it and it's a very serious situation. As you know, there's no |
0:43.8 | statute of limitations. So it would be a very good, very good thing to do. |
0:49.6 | That was President Trump on May 26, 2020, giving new life to a conspiracy theory claiming that one of |
0:55.8 | his media critics, MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough, may have murdered a member of his congressional |
1:01.6 | staff 19 years ago. |
1:03.7 | It was a conspiracy theory that had been completely rejected by the local police, |
1:09.1 | who found no foul play in the death of the staffer, Lori Klausutus. |
1:13.6 | The underlying premise behind the claim that Scarborough had been having an affair with |
1:17.4 | Lori was nonsensical. |
1:19.7 | As we explained in the first episode, Scarborough barely knew who she was, and was 1,000 miles away in Washington, |
1:26.3 | voting on the House floor on the day Lori died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. |
1:31.4 | Yet the idea that Scarborough had killed a woman and covered it up had |
1:35.2 | circulated in the dark corners of the internet for years. Coming up time and again, |
1:40.1 | first raised by Democratic partisans, then by a well-known Republican, |
1:44.6 | until it made its way to the White House, |
1:46.8 | producing angst and torment for T.J. Klausutis, |
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