The Story Behind The Death Of A House Staffer That Trump’s Using To Smear Joe Scarborough | Talking Points Memo

In 2001, the 28-year-old congressional staffer Lori Klausutis was suffering from an undiagnosed heart condition. She lost consciousness and fell, hitting her head on a desk. She died on the floor of the resulting brain trauma, according to a medical examiner’s report. She left behind a promising future and a grieving husband.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1310810

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twitter-won-t-autoban-neo-193850606.html

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This was a lie when folks on Daily Kos/Mike Moore, etc were pushing it, and it is a bigger lie today. She worked in a constituent office in FL, and was married. Joe was in DC, and his retirement was announced before her death.

What Trump has done is take right wing reports, which add fake details not found in the original far left fever swamp version (like her being a “marathon runner”). Trump just shows that far left and far right all meet around the back, and Trump has to one up them in how crazy his lies are.

And p.s. posting a version of this from the left: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/3/15/956651/-

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Another opportunity for people to see what a vile human being Trump is.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-paul-singer-republican-jack-dorsey

A billionaire Republican megadonor has purchased a “sizable” stake in Twitter and “plans to push” to oust CEO Jack Dorsey among other changes, according to new reports, raising the prospect of a shocking election-year shakeup of the social media platform that conservatives have long accused of overt left-wing political bias.

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. has already nominated four directors to Twitter’s board, a development first reported by Bloomberg News, citing several sources familiar with the arrangement. The outlet noted that unlike other prominent tech CEOs, Dorsey didn’t have voting control over Twitter because the company had just one class of stock; and he has long been a target for removal given Twitter’s struggling user growth numbers and stock performance.

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Whatever happened to Melania’s cyber anti-bullying campaign? Whatever happened to infrastructure week? Whatever happened to better, cheaper, health care coverage for all citizens? Whatever happened to Trump’s fake inaugural promise to end the “American carnage?”

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Promises made, promises kept???

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If so, just another reason to remove the immunity in § 230 of the Communication Decency ACT ( CDA) making social media providers strictly liable for the content they allow to be posted after a short (say or two) window.

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“There are three events that typically ‘cause one to drop in mid sentence or in mid stride’ it said: Blood clots that block circulation to the lungs, bleeding in the brain, or sudden cardigan arrhythmia: an abnormal heart rhythm.”

Even as we speak, millions of Americans are united in praying for all three.

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Scarborough is a bad move for Trump. I’d brush it off and, in effect, give Trump more rope.

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This story has been recycled by whoever wants to get at Joe Scarborough. In the good old days Joe was a conservative darling. I recall this theory was promoted by a lot of liberals who wanted to respond to stories about Hillary Clinton and the death of Vince Foster.

This story doesn’t do anything except showcase the ease with which baseless conspiracy theories are re-transmitted by the political media based on no reporting.

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That Daily Kos article is the definition of vile. Can you source Michael Moore on this?

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A US president sinking so low is just a horrible state of affairs. Will clowns like Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson be so shameless as to propound this crap (all in the name of increasing their riches, one should note).

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MSM step up now.
Do you fucking job. Stay on Trump every night until he cracks.
Or are you going to do what you did before?
Oh Donnie said this and Donnie said that and isn’t he cute?
He is so easy to report on we don’t even have to try.

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She’s spending most of her time bleaching her asshole…I mean Donald.

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If I were Klausutis attorney, I’d respond to Twitter thusly:

“We are deeply upset about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing undue and extreme emotional duress on the family,”. “We’ve been working to expand existing legal staff and policies so we can more effectively file suit for negligence and slander like this going forward, and we hope to have those charges and law suits in place shortly.”

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What is puzzling to me is the fact that Americans have not begun to fathom that Trump is not an android, robot or 40-year-old.

He is a sick, sick, SICK, SICK OLD fucker.

Who should be attacked non-stop 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, 370 days a year.

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read the the bottom. He actually registered a domain name to attack Scorborough:

This was not the original piece I read, I think the Michael Moore part was in the Post or anther article I read, but did not come up in quick search.

Micheal Moore is not yet at peak Glenn Greenwald, but is working in that direction.

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I come from a good family and was taught that it is never right to hate. I’m going to call Mom and ask for a dispensation. I’m pretty sure she’ll agree that it’s justified to hate anyone who puts me on the same side as Joe Scarborough.

Therefore,

I HATE Donald “Fuckin’ Asshole” Trump.

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Technically a 25 hour 8 day week consisting of 52 weeks, would be 433.33 days. Thus changing leap years to every 3 years.

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