Posted on 05/28/2020 11:07:58 AM PDT by Aquamarine
Even Trump-supporters have wondered about Trump's tweets implying that MSNBC's Joe Scarborough had something to do with a young intern's death in his office when he was still a Florida congressman. It's true that Scarborough and his co-host and wife Mika Brzezinksi have spent three years accusing Trump of treasonous collusion with the Russians, but Trump's venom still seemed strange.
I, however, don't think it was strange at all. Trump is one of the most calculating, rational people ever to occupy the White House. He's been faced with a serious problem, which is the fact that the immensely powerful social media giants, which are the gateway to most information nowadays, have already begun trying to sway the election to Biden. Legislatively, thanks to three years of Russiagate and the current hostile House, Trump has been powerless.
So Trump set a trap. On Wednesday, the Twitter mouse took the bait.
The ostensible story is about Lori Klausutis, 28, who worked in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach congressional office from 1999 to 2001. On July 20, 2001, when Scarborough was out of town, Klausutis's body was found in the office. Because of a very bizarre medical examiner, it wasn't clear how Klausutis died, making her death ripe for different theories.
Initially, those theories came from the left. In 2010, hard-left Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas lost a gig at MSNBC when he tweeted directly to Scarborough about Klausutis's death. Other leftists such as James Wolcott and Michael Moore attacked Scarborough,too.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Why was Lori in the office by herself?
Beautiful! This was a beautiful move, grand. Nothing’s ever been this grand, right? Have you ever seen anything this beautifully executed? I don’t think so.
#lovemyPresident #Trump2020
Good question and one that will never be answered I’m sure.
I gotta admit, my faith shook a little on this one, but my wife said yesterday, “Wonder what he’s setting them up for now?” Now I owe the President an apology and my wife dinner. I REALLY should have known this was a thing.
Great oped.
Thanks for posting the Twitters involved before and after Trump set his trap!
This is a brain dead article.
“which are the gateway to most information nowadays”
That is a huge great truth. If we are pilots then they are our instruments. We can’t fly if they are not accurate.
I think the Scarborough tweets were intended to get under the skin of the folks at Twitter. But hard to really fact check that stuff.
Then the voter fraud tweets came out and Twitter said “Aha! Now is our chance! We will fact check this guy and shut him up!”
I see the set up.
“Twitter didn’t fact check the Scarborough tweet.
This is a brain dead article. “
You couldn’t have missed the point more if you tried.
Why shouldn’t the President wonder about the cause of that young woman’s death? Banjo Joe is on tape basically admitting to having had sex with her and then having killed her.
Bump for after work.
I knew this was the set up. They’d either kick him off or fact-check him, which leads to Twitter being a publisher, not a platform.
The only thing left is for Trump to switch yo Parler.
Ha ha ha. Did you actually read the article?
He wants a reason for his executive action, adn he found it.
Now do Seth Rich.
Yes. Trump stepped on his own member with a weak made up tweet about Scarborough.
The author is trying to gaslight all of us by pretending it was some kind of blindfolded triple bank shot.
Brain dead.
You’re not very good at this, semimojo.
when Scarborough was ALLEDGEDLY out of town.
Fixed it.
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