“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough is reportedly “petrified” of Matt Gaetz becoming Attorney General and investigating the suspicious death of his intern in 2001.
Theories and questions have long swirled about the death of Lori Klausutis, a young woman who worked and died in then-Representative Scarborough’s congressional office.
The 28-year-old intern’s death was ruled accidental, stemming from an “undiagnosed cardiac arrhythmia” that caused her “breathing to stop.” Investigators said that she fell and hit her head on an office desk, fractured her skull, and died.
In 2020, Trump called for an investigation into Klausutis’ death.
According to a report from Puck News, Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday because they were terrified of the death being investigated.
Puck News reports:
Specifically, Joe and Mika have told friends and associates they’re afraid that Trump and Gaetz will resurrect a decades-old, totally bullshit, birther-level conspiracy theory about the death of Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old intern in Scarborough’s former Florida congressional office who died in 2001 from complications relating to a heart condition, and use it to apply legal pressure on Scarborough and otherwise make his life a living hell.
The couple’s anxiety stems, in particular, from testimony that former White House communications director and current View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin gave in 2022 during the January 6 hearings, during which she recounted running into Gaetz outside of the Oval Office.
Farah Griffin testified that Gaetz was carrying a folder filled with “conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern,” which he then presented to President Trump, who later tweeted about it.
Despite the baseless nature of the conspiracy theory, Joe and Mika “are petrified of retribution and of Gaetz opening an investigation into Joe and the intern,” one source with knowledge of their concerns said. “That’s what this was about. It has nothing to do with ratings or Comcast. It’s all about fear of retribution and investigation.”
Another source close to the matter said Joe and Mika believed that by meeting with Trump, they could assuage his potential desire for reckless payback and thus nuke any possibility of having to endure the headlines of a Gaetz witch hunt or legal torture campaign.
(Reached for comment, Scarborough referred me to an MSNBC spokesperson, who denied this characterization of the motivations for Joe and Mika’s Mar-a-Lago visit and said it was both false and inaccurate.) Coincidentally, Scarborough and Gaetz both represented Florida’s 1st congressional district.
While Puck was quick to write this off as a “baseless conspiracy,” during an appearance on “Imus in the Morning” in 2003, Don Imus and Scarborough joked about him having an affair with his intern and having to kill her.
The Gateway Pundit obtained a video of the “joke” in 2020.
“You said you had sex with an intern, and then you had to kill her,” Imus recounted.
“Exactly,” Scarborough responded with a laugh.
“That’s pretty risky to say,” Imus responded.
“What are you gonna do?” Scarborough continued to joke.
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