Tucker Carlson Promotes Debunked Conspiracy Theory Joe Scarborough Murdered Ex-Congressional Staffer
Tucker Carlson promoted the debunked conspiracy theory that MSNBC host and former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) murdered a staffer while still in Congress during an appearance on Dave Smith’s YouTube channel.
“But Joe Scarborough, like something broke there. And he’s to me is like, I always liked Joe, people would always whisper at the company that he had murdered, you know, someone who’d worked for him — I didn’t have views on that, you know — but a lot of people thought that he did it, I didn’t know,” began Carlson.
“But I will tell you that I got along with him really, really well,” he continued. “He was my fill-in guy when I was on vacation, and, like, I look up in like maybe an airport, you know, newsstand and they’re playing it and Joe Scarborough’s, like, insane, and, like, angry. Now, maybe it’s, like, his personal life, I don’t know what it is, but I think that brand of neoliberalism became highly venomous and hate-filled. Not analytical at all, nothing dispassionate or reasonable about it, but, like, completely like ‘Kill the other guy!'”
The same conspiracy theory about the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, who worked out for Scarborough in a congressional office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida was repeatedly peddled by former President Donald Trump while he was in the White House.
A posthumous investigation found that a heart condition caused Klausutis to fall and hit her head, and her death was ruled to be from “natural causes.” Despite these facts, Trump made repeated comments and tweets speculating Scarborough was at fault, including asking in 2017 if Scarborough would be fired for his supposed role in the “unsolved mystery.”
Then in 2020, Trump tweeted: “When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!”
Scarborough was in Washington, D.C. on the day of the incident and had already announced his intention to leave Congress nearly two months prior to it.
