Widower Asks Twitter to Delete Trump's Tweets Suggesting Joe Scarborough Murdered Late Wife

https://time.com/5842529/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-tweet/

In general, Twitter has taken a hands-off approach to political leaders, contending that publishing controversial tweets from politicians helps hold them accountable and encourages discussion. It modified those rules last year to say that world leaders “aren’t entirely” above the rules and some tweets violating its policy could be slapped with warning labels.

 

Widower asks Twitter to delete Trump's 'horrifying' lies about wife's death

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/26/lori-klausutis-husband-asks-twitter-delete-trump-joe-scarborough-smears-death

The husband of a woman whose 2001 death Donald Trump has repeatedly used for a political smear has demanded that Twitter take down tweets in which the president spreads the “horrifying” lie that the woman was murdered.

 

In a letter to Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey published on Tuesday by the New York Times, Timothy Klausutis made a heartfelt plea: “Please delete those tweets … My wife deserves better.”

Twitter said it would not delete the tweets.

Trump has spread the pernicious lie about the death of Lori Klausutis as a means of attacking a television host, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC. With his wife, Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough frequently criticizes Trump on the Morning Joe program. Trump has also attacked Brzezinski in brutally personal terms.

But in a statement on Tuesday morning, a spokesperson said the company would not remove the president’s tweets.

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“We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family,” the spokesperson said.
“We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.”

Twitter ‘deeply sorry’ as widower asks that Trump’s Scarborough tweets be deleted — but won’t remove them

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-deeply-sorry-as-widower-asks-that-trumps-scarborough-tweets-be-deleted-but-wont-remove-them-2020-05-26

 

Twitter says it’s “deeply sorry” about President Donald Trump’s tweets suggesting that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough murdered a former staffer — but is not removing the president’s messages.

The husband of the woman who died accidentally in a district office of then–Republican Rep. Scarborough two decades ago is demanding that Twitter remove Trump’s tweets.

“My request is simple: Please delete these tweets,” wrote Timothy Klausutis to Twitter TWTR, +4.73% CEO Jack Dorsey.

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Twitter refuses to delete Trump’s baseless claims about Joe Scarborough

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/twitters-world-leaders-policy-gets-a-new-test-with-trump-tweets.html

Twitter’s policy carve-out for world leaders is facing another test with President Donald Trump’s latest tweets resurrecting baseless claims that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough should be investigated for the death of his former staffer.

Earlier this month, Trump tweeted questions about when an investigation would be opened into the “Cold Case” of “Psycho Joe Scarborough.” The unfounded accusation refers to the death in 2001 of Lori Klausutis, who was working for Scarborough when he was a Republican congressman for Florida. At the time, the medical examiner concluded Klausutis, 28, had fainted due to an undiagnosed heart condition and hit her head on the way down, finding no evidence of foul play. Scarborough was in Washington, D.C., when Klausutis died in his district office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Trump’s tweets revived a baseless theory that Scarborough was allegedly involved in Klausutis’ death. On Thursday, her widower, Timothy Klausutis, wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey requesting the company delete Trump’s tweets referencing those claims.

 

Twitter Doesn’t Remove Donald Trump’s Conspiracy Tweets After Widower Of Joe Scarborough Aide Asked For Them To Be Deleted

https://deadline.com/2020/05/donald-trump-joe-scarborough-lori-klausutis-1202943081/

 Twitter is not immediately removing President Donald Trump’s tweets about the 2001 death of an aide to Joe Scarborough, even though her widower asked the platform’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, to remove them.

Timothy Klausutis, the husband of Lori Klausutis, wrote in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week, “My request is simple: Please delete these tweets.”

Widower of Scarborough Aide Asks Twitter to Delete Trump Tweets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-26/widower-asks-twitter-to-delete-trump-tweets-on-death-allegations



 

‘My Wife Deserves Better’: Widower Of Scarborough Aide Asks Twitter To Delete Trump Conspiracies

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/05/26/my-wife-deserves-better-widower-of-scarborough-aide-asks-twitter-to-delete-trump-conspiracies/#34cbe8631006

 The widower of Lori Klausutis, an aide to Joe Scarborough when he was a member of Congress who died in 2001, called on Twitter to take down President Trump’s tweets baselessly accusing the MSNBC host of murdering her.

 

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Former student attempts to run over principal of Baltimore yeshiva

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/501647

A former student at Baltimore yeshiva Ner Yisrael rammed his car into the vehicle of a staff member and then attempted to run over the yeshiva principal walking nearby, barely missing him.

 

Disapproval of Donald Trump Climbs Higher As Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 100,000 in U.S.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-disapproval-climbs-coronavirus-deaths-near-100000-1506426

President Donald Trump's disapproval rating has continued to climb this month as coronavirus deaths have neared 100,000 in the U.S., according to new data.
The FiveThirtyEight approval rating tracker found that Trump's average disapproval rating stood at 53.5 percent on Monday—putting it at its highest level since mid-January.
By comparison, the president's average approval rating slumped to 42.7 percent—a little more than three points down on his post-acquittal peak last month.

 

Israeli court opens way for Australian sex crime suspect's extradition

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkEttd5sU

Court rules Malka Leifer, alleged sexual abuser from Melbourne, has been simulating mental illness and is fit to be tried; ruling was made after Leifer's lawyers contested experts who deemed her fit for trial back in January

 

Member of Lev Tahor sect indicted for child abuse

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280890

Former principal of Lev Tahor school in Canada indicted for alleged physical and mental torture of children.