If You’re Trump, You Can Tweet False Murder Allegations And Twitter Is Just ‘Sorry’
President Donald Trump and his oldest son can tweet unfounded murder accusations against his critics without consequence, at least not from tech giant Twitter.
Trump has repeatedly and without a shred of evidence suggested that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough might have killed 28-year-old intern Lori Klausutis, who died in 2001 after she hit her head on a table. She had an undiagnosed heart condition and her tragic death was ruled an accident.
There should be “a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough,” Trump tweeted earlier this month.
“Did he get away with murder? Some people think so,” Trump tweeted in another post.
Lori Klausutis’ widower, Timothy Klausutis, wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week pleading for the company to remove Trump’s tweets:
The frequency, intensity, ugliness, and promulgation of these horrifying lies ever increases on the internet. These conspiracy theorists, including most recently the President of the United States, continue to spread their bile and misinformation on your platform disparaging the memory of my wife and our marriage. President Trump on Tuesday tweeted to his nearly 80 million followers alluding to the repeatedly debunked falsehood that my wife was murdered by her boss, former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough. The son of the president followed and more directly attacked my wife by tweeting to his followers as the means of spreading this vicious lie.
“My request is simple: Please delete these tweets,” Klausutis said.
Following the letter, Twitter issued a tepid response skirting responsibility while making clear that the company wouldn’t be taking action against the president’s tweets.
“We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. “We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward,...
