MSNBC's Morning Joe addresses shocking claims he killed an intern at his office

MNSBC presenter Joe Scarborough has said retired against claims made by Donald Trump that he killed an intern who died successful his office. 

Scarborough recalled nan erstwhile president attacking him successful May 2020 complete nan decease of Lori Klausutis successful 2001 while speaking connected his show 'Morning Joe' connected Tuesday.

Klausutis had been moving for Scarborough, who was backmost past a GOP Congressman, erstwhile she died successful his Florida agency aft falling and hitting her head. 

Trump has consistently implied location was much to nan incident and that Scarborough had a portion to play successful her death. 

Scarborough said: 'When Donald Trump decided to onslaught maine because he didn’t like my Covid coverage and he lied astir a female who worked successful my agency and claimed that we were progressive and that I had her killed.

'And her husband, nan widowed husband, begged him to extremity lying because of nan excruciating symptom that it put her parents done and put him done nan truth that he had not been capable to move connected for 25 years because of nan lies. 

'They could not find remainder aliases peace. And Donald Trump didn’t care. He conscionable kept doing it because he didn’t attraction what nan family thought. 

'He didn’t attraction what nan hubby thought. He didn’t attraction [about] nan group whose condolences he was only making worse.'

Scarborough brought up his past tally ins pinch Trump arsenic he slammed his Vice President prime JD Vance for 'exploiting nan grief' of 2 Ohio parents. 

He said that Vance had politicized nan decease of their 11-year-old boy Aiden Clark, who was killed connected his measurement to schoolhouse erstwhile his autobus was forced disconnected nan roadworthy by a van. 

That incident happened successful August 2023, pinch driver Hermanio Joseph, a ineligible Haitian immigrant, later being convicted for manslaughter and vehicular homicide. 

On nan show, Scarborough and his co-presenter and woman Mike Brzezinski had highlighted a communicative successful nan New York Times astir nan parents. 

Their sum says they person been struggling aft their son's communicative was utilized by MAGA to onslaught immigrants. 

Scarborough added: 'I can’t ideate nan symptom those parents are going through. And past to watch their son, their kid utilized arsenic a governmental prop, to beryllium lied about, making nan symptom worse.'

He added: 'We person a family enduring that symptom because their son’s being lied astir for governmental purposes and they person been put connected notice.

'The begetter said earlier nan metropolis council, I judge a period aliases 2 ago, saying please extremity lying astir my son. 

'You cognize thing astir him. And if you did, you would cognize this is nan other of what he would beryllium saying correct now based connected nan awesome short life that he lived.'

Scarborough said that Vance and Trump had utilized nan young boys decease 'without shame' and 'decency'. 

He said location had been a melodramatic displacement successful nan standards successful US politics, and that Republicans were exploiting nan decease of Aiden conscionable for power. 

'If you deliberation this is normal, good you haven’t been astir authorities agelong enough, because I tin show you if it happened while I was successful Congress.

'If it happened while Claire [McCaskill] was successful nan Senate and personification did this, they would beryllium excommunicated. Nobody would talk to them. 

'Their activity would say, "You apologize to nan parents, you return backmost nan dishonesty aliases you will beryllium stripped of your committees tomorrow. You straighten up", he added.

Trump had posted a bid of posts to his Twitter page while successful agency successful May of 2020 concerning nan decease of Klausutis. 

He insinuated that nan 2 had an affair, writing: '"Concast" should unfastened up a agelong overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough.

'I cognize him and Crazy Mika well, utilized them beautifully successful nan past Election, dumped them nicely, and will authorities connected nan grounds that he is 'nuts'. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE'.

This launched him into a month-long Twitter rant wherever he continued to push for nan lawsuit to beryllium reopened into nan precocious Scarborough staffer Lori Klausutis' death. 

'I've ever felt he sewage distant pinch murder,' Trump told Fox News Channel's Brian Kilmeade connected nan anchor's power show successful June of that year. 'That was my feeling, my very beardown feeling, and I do consciousness it.' 

Klausutis' widower Timothy begged past Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to region nan tweets due to them causing wounded for nan family. 

'Please delete those tweets,' Timothy Klausutis said successful nan missive to Dorsey. 'My woman deserves better.'

He added: 'I person mourned my woman each time since her passing. I person tried to grant her representation and our marriage. 

'As her husband, I consciousness that 1 of my marital obligations is to protect her representation arsenic I would person protected her successful life.'

The autopsy recovered nary foul play successful nan decease of Klausutis, and it was wished that her decease was a consequence of an undiagnosed bosom problem that caused her to walk retired and fatally deed her head.