No, Joe Scarborough didn’t murder an aide
At 6:54 a.m. on Tuesday, just as “Morning Joe” was wrapping up its first hour, President Trump said on Twitter that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough might be a murderer.
It’s an old claim, debunked by The Washington Post in 2017. Trump often smears those who challenge him. He has a long-running feud with the “Morning Joe” crew. And Scarborough has been hammering Trump daily for the administration’s halting response to covid-19.
But it remains astounding to see the president make a thinly veiled murder accusation devoid of evidence.
The president is referring to the 2001 death of a 28-year-old aide who worked for Scarborough when he was a Republican member of Congress from Florida. The circumstances of the young woman’s death have generated conspiracy theories, but authorities never suspected foul play.
Her death was ruled accidental by the medical examiner and the police in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., concluded there was no reason to further investigate. Scarborough was in Washington at the time. A police investigator told The Post in 2017 that authorities had left “no stone unturned.”
Trump earned Four Pinocchios, but we would have given more if that wasn’t the limit.
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