Death of Joe Scarborough aide Lori Klausutis was ruled an accident - but Trump has always been suspicious

Conspiracy theories astir Joe Scarborough adjutant Lori Klausutis' decease person resurfaced arsenic the MSNBC prima deals with backlash from his gathering with Donald Trump. 

Scarborough and his woman and co-host Mika Brzezinski said they went to Mar-a-Lago to 'restart communications' with the president-elect, but, according to Puck's reporting, they really were frightened of facing revenge from a Trump White House in the signifier of a probe into the aide's death.

While the 28-year-old's decease was ruled an mishap caused by an undiagnosed bosom condition, Trump has been 1 of the main voices that person dispersed the rumor that determination is thing much to the decease - and that Scarborough indispensable someway beryllium involved.

Klausutis worked for Scarborough erstwhile helium was a Republican congressman for Florida. She was recovered dormant connected the level of his congressional bureau successful Fort Walton Beach successful July, 2001 - soon aft Scarborough announced his volition to resign.

Scarborough, present 1 of the GOP's astir vocal critics, served arsenic a congressman for 3 presumption aft being elected successful 1994. 

Klausutis worked arsenic a constituent work coordinator successful the outer office, which was an hr from Scarborough's main bureau successful Pensacola. 

Scarborough hardly visited the Fort Walton Beach bureau and lone met Klausutis a fistful of times. On the time of Klausutis' death, Scarborough was 1,000 miles away, casting a ballot successful Congress successful DC. 

A coroner concluded that Klausutis fainted owed to an undiagnosed bosom information and deed her caput connected a table arsenic she fell. Investigators repeated implicit and implicit again that determination was nary foul play involved.

'Klausutis died arsenic a effect of an acute subdural hematoma which occurred arsenic a effect of closed caput trauma sustained successful a elemental fall,' the study read. 

'The etiology of the unprotected autumn appears to beryllium arsenic a effect of a cardiac arrhythmia from floppy mitral valve disease.'

But that decision took a month, and soon, assorted figures including progressive filmmaker Michael Moore were casting uncertainty connected the authoritative mentation for the young woman's death, utilizing it arsenic a mode to onslaught the past ultra-conservative Scarborough. 

Over a decennary later, aft Scarborough became an MSNBC pundit and Trump became president, the conspiracy theories resurfaced.

Scarborough and Trump had a affable narration until they fell retired successful 2016, and Morning Joe became a bastion of the Democratic establishment.

By 2017, then-president Trump started bringing up the rumors surrounding Klausutis' death.

On November, 2017, Trump wrote: 'Will the Fake News practitioners astatine NBC… terminate debased ratings Joe Scarborough based connected the "unsolved mystery" that took spot successful Florida years ago? Investigate!'

The allegations earned Trump his archetypal rebuke from Twitter, which would yet footwear him disconnected the level altogether successful January 2021.

Trump again ranted astir Klausutis decease for 10 days successful 2020, wrongly claiming the lawsuit was 'cold.'

'When volition they unfastened a Cold Case connected the Psycho Joe Scarborough substance successful Florida. Did helium get distant with murder?' then-president Trump asked connected X, past known arsenic Twitter. 

Trump went on: 'Why did helium permission Congress truthful softly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A full seed job!'

Trump's insistence connected the lawsuit sparked involvement among galore successful the right, peculiarly QAnon followers, who believed the then-president indispensable cognize immoderate exclusive accusation if helium was truthful insistent connected the case.

Klausutis' widower Timothy Klausutis begged then-CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey to intervene, writing: 'The president of the United States has taken thing that does not beryllium to him - the representation of my dormant woman - and perverted it for perceived governmental gain.

'An mean idiosyncratic similar maine would beryllium banished from the level for specified a tweet but I americium lone asking that these tweets beryllium removed.' 

'Please delete those tweets,' Timothy Klausutis said successful the missive to Dorsey. 'My woman deserves better.'

He added: 'I person mourned my woman each time since her passing. I person tried to grant her representation and our marriage.

'As her husband, I consciousness that 1 of my marital obligations is to support her representation arsenic I would person protected her successful life.'

Twitter did not region the posts but apologized to the widower, saying it was figuring retired however to code akin issues successful the future.

Scarborough addressed Trump's attacks past period connected Morning Joe, saying: 'When Donald Trump decided to onslaught maine due to the fact that helium didn’t similar my COVID sum and helium lied astir a pistillate who worked successful my bureau and claimed that we were progressive and that I had her killed,'

'And her husband, the widowed husband, begged him to halt lying due to the fact that of the excruciating symptom that it enactment her parents done and enactment him done - the information that helium had not been capable to determination connected for 25 years due to the fact that of the lies,' helium continued.

'They could not find remainder oregon peace. And Donald Trump didn’t care. He conscionable kept doing it due to the fact that helium didn’t attraction what the household thought.

'He didn’t attraction what the hubby thought. He didn’t attraction [about] the radical whose grief helium was lone making worse.'

Now, arsenic Trump prepares to instrumentality to the White House, the mendacious rumors are circulating online again.

The Morning Joe hosts have been playing defence implicit the Mar-a-Lago acme since they made the announcement Monday, to the tune of declining ratings and backlash connected some sides of the aisle.

The MSNBC hosts dismissed the disapproval saying it conscionable proves determination is simply a 'massive disconnect' betwixt 'social media and the existent world.' 

Amid the backlash, Morning Joe staffers person insisted the Florida gathering was 'f***ing worthy it.'

Trump, connected his part, told Fox News that helium took the gathering due to the fact that successful bid to 'Make America Great Again, it is precise important, if not vital, to person a free, just and unfastened media oregon press.'