(Daily Mail) Scarborough and his co-host/wife Mika Brzezinski have faced a deluge of backlash after they revealed the Mar-a-Lago summit amid declining viewership on their beleaguered, left-leaning MSNBC network.
Some called the recent Trump meeting a feeble attempt to bring in conservative viewers.
But the pair are reportedly ‘petrified of retribution and of Gaetz opening an investigation into Joe and the intern.’
‘That’s what this was about,’ a source told Puck about the motive. ‘It has nothing to do with ratings or Comcast. It’s all about fear of retribution and investigation,’
Since 2020, Trump has spread unfounded theories that Scarborough allegedly had an affair with intern Lori Klausutis and was responsible for her death.
The 28-year-old intern worked in Scarborough’s Florida office when he served as a member of Congress, representing the same district in Florida as Gaetz.
Klausutis died on the floor of the office after she fell and hit her head. It was later revealed she had an undiagnosed heart problem.
The hosts of Morning Joe held their secret meeting with Donald Trump over fears the president would have Matt Gaetz lead a probe into the 2001 death of a Joe Scarborough intern
Scarborough and Brzezinski have reportedly told friends they’re instead trying to prevent Trump retaliating against them for their hysterical, negative coverage of the president-elect and that Gaetz will launch a probe into the death of Scarborough’s former intern
The ‘Morning Joe’ duo have worried ever since Alyssa Farah Griffin testified during the January 6 hearings that Gaetz was heavily interested in the long-debunked rumor, according to Puck.
Griffin – a former White House communications director and now co-host of The View – claimed that Gaetz carried around a folder of ‘conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern’ that he passed along to Trump.
Just a week before the election, Scarborough publicly admitted he was worried Trump wanted to bring the story about Klausutis’ death back into the news.
Trump has consistently implied there was more to the incident and that Scarborough had played a part in her death, a notion that has been debunked.
‘When Donald Trump decided to attack me because he didn’t like my COVID coverage and he lied about a woman who worked in my office and claimed that we were involved and that I had her killed,’ Scarborough began his rant.
‘And her husband, the widowed husband, begged him to stop lying because of the excruciating pain that it put her parents through and put him through – the fact that he had not been able to move on for 25 years because of the lies,’ he continued.
‘They could not find rest or peace. And Donald Trump didn’t care. He just kept doing it because he didn’t care what the family thought.
‘He didn’t care what the husband thought. He didn’t care [about] the people whose grief he was only making worse.’
