Q Yes, has the President seen the letter that Lori Klausutis’s husband — widower — sent to Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO, saying that his tweets were “emotionally traumatic” for him and for his ex- — his wife’s family?
MS. MCENANY: I don’t know if he’s seen the letter, but I do know that our hearts are with Lori’s family at this time.
Q Why is the President making these unfounded allegations? I mean, this is — this is pretty nuts, isn’t it? The President is accusing somebody of possible murder? The family is pleading with the President to please stop unfounded conspiracy theories. Why is he doing it?
MS. MCENANY: Well, you know, I would note that the President said this morning that this is not an original Trump thought, and it is not. In fact, in 2003, on Don Imus’s show, it was Don Imus and Joe Scarborough that joked about killing an intern — joked and laughed about it. So that was, I’m sure, pretty hurtful to Lori’s family. And Joe Scarborough himself brought this up with Don Imus, and Joe Scarborough, himself, can answer it.
Q Nor was she an intern, though.
Q But he’s the President. He’s the President of the United States and he’s accusing somebody of possibly murder. I mean, this is different. He’s — he’s not a private citizen; he’s the President.
MS. MCENANY: Yeah, and Joe Scarborough — if we want to start talking about false accusations, we have quite a few we can go through about Mika asserting —
Q No, no, I’m asking about — I’m asking about the President’s —
MS. MCENANY: — Mika Brzezinski —
Q I’m asking about the President’s allegation here, of —
MS. MCENANY: And I’m replying to you and saying, this morning, as recently — I believe it was this morning or yesterday — Mika accused the President of being responsible for 100,000 deaths in this country. That’s incredibly irresponsible. They’ve dragged his family through the mud. They’ve made false accusations that I won’t go through — that I would not say from this podium — against the President of the United States. And they should be held to account for their falsehoods.
Joe Scarborough should be held to account for saying people will die by taking hydroxychloroquine. Never mind the millions of Americans and people across the world who take it for rheumatory [sic] arthritis and other reasons.
There are a litany of false headlines, like Mika —
Q Does that justify the President spreading a false conspiracy theory that suggests that —
MS. MCENANY: I would point you back to —
Q — he’s responsible for murder?
MS. MCENANY: I would point you back to Joe Scarborough who laughed and joked about this item on Don Imus’s show. It’s Joe Scarborough that has to answer these questions.
Steven.
Q So will he apologize and will he stop, Kayleigh?
MS. MCENANY: Steven.