One of President Donald Trump’s biggest political allies in news, The New York Post, wrote a scathing op-ed Tuesday condemning the 44th president.
It’s a shocking break from one of Trump’s most reliable allies in the mainstream media.
The Post went after Trump’s recent tweets about MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, co-host of Morning Joe.
The newspaper accused Trump of spreading “baseless conspiracy theories” after the president questioned the official story on the death of a former intern of Scarborough, who died inside his then-congressional office in 2001.
According to authorities, Scarborough’s intern lost consciousness during a health episode and struck her head on the corner of Scarborough’s desk.
Trump tweeted earlier in May —
When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2020
The president resurrected the controversy after a video of Scarborough laughing about the intern’s death went viral on social media.
On a radio show with shock jock Don Imus in 2003, Scarborough joked around about the death. A video clip of the joke has been seen more than 82,000 times as of Wednesday morning.
“Don’t be afraid to be funny, because you are funny,” Imus said. “I asked you why you wanted to join Congress, you said because you wanted to have sex with an intern and then you’d have to kill her.”
“Exactly,” a laughing Scarborough replied.
“That’s pretty risky to say,” Imus replied.
“Well, what are ya gonna do?” the MSNBC host replied.
The Post condemned Trump’s tweets about the controversy.
“We suppose there are some Trump followers who enjoy this,” the newspaper’s editorial board wrote. “The libs say horrible things about you, go ahead and say terrible things about them! There is a difference, though, between mocking someone’s ratings and hurting an innocent family with the memories of their tragic daughter because of a petty feud.”
“A much larger portion of Trump’s support, we’d wager, are people who like his policies and brush off his personality — or try to,” the editorial team continued in their rebuke. “The brashness comes in handy when you make a call like finally moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem — being told “you can’t do that” means little to Trump. So he says some outrageous things on Twitter, who cares?”
“But is that really the president you want to be, sir?” the paper wrote. “The president for whom people disregard half or even most of what you say as irrelevant?”
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