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#TakeTrumpOffTwitter trends as Trump continues to spread baseless Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory

Trump went on a tirade against the MSNBC host after he was criticized on 'Morning Joe' earlier this week
UPDATED MAY 26, 2020
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Thousands of users are calling for President Donald Trump to be taken off Twitter as he continues to spew conspiracy theories about MSNBC host and former Congress member Joe Scarborough's involvement in a murder plot.

Twitter reported on Tuesday, May 26, that the hashtag #TakeTrumpOffTwitter was the number one trending topic on the social media site and that more than 64,000 users had tweeted it out in the last few hours.

The hashtag began making the rounds after the president yet again tweeted about a conspiracy theory that Scarborough had killed a former Congressional staffer named Lori Klausutis, according to Inquisitr. He asked that the "cold case" be reopened to determine if Klausutis had been murdered by Scarborough, her former boss, and described the MSNBC host as a "psycho" and a "total nut job."

While Klausutis' death was initially ruled suspicious, an investigation revealed she had a previously undiagnosed heart condition and that she died after she fell and hit her head as a result of that condition. The coroner also ruled that she had died from natural causes.

After Scarborough criticized Trump on his show 'Morning Joe,' the president lashed out at him on Twitter and brought up the "cold case." He tweeted, "A blow to her head? Body found under his desk? Left Congress suddenly? Big topic of discussion in Florida…and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). Keep digging, use forensic geniuses!"

As the tweet quickly gained traction, Trump continued to suggest that Klausutis' death had taken place under suspicious circumstances.

"The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought, this has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus," he wrote. "In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total Nut Job, and I knew him well, far better than most. So many unanswered & obvious questions, but I won’t bring them up now! Law enforcement eventually will?”

It caught the attention of Timothy Klausutis, Klausutis' husband, who wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking him to delete the tweets.

"My request is simple: Please delete these tweets," he wrote. "I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the president of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain."

He argued that the tweets violated the platform's terms of service and that if Trump were an ordinary user, he would have long been banished. "The frequency, intensity, ugliness, and promulgation of these horrifying lies ever increase on the internet," he wrote. "These conspiracy theorists, including most recently the president of the United States, continue to spread their bile and misinformation on your platform disparaging the memory of my wife and our marriage."

Scarborough's co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski has also called for Dorsey to take action against Trump and said his tweet was "sick."

While in a statement a spokesperson for the company did apologize, Trump's tweets have stayed up. "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's inaction has seemingly stirred the platform's users into taking the matter into their own hands with #TakeTrumpOff Twitter, though many acknowledged such a scenario was unlikely because of the traffic he brings to the website.

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