As President Donald Trump continues floating wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on Twitter, the widower of one of his favorite subjects has personally asked CEO Jack Dorsey to help.
Timothy Klausutis, in a letter obtained by the New York Times, pleaded with Dorsey to delete Trump's tweets accusing former Congressman Joe Scarborough of murdering his wife, who died in 2001 while serving as an intern to the now-MSNBC host.
"I'm asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong him _ the memory of my dead wife and perverted it for perceived political gain," Kalusutis wrote.
Lori was 28 when she collapsed in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach office due to an abnormal heart rhythm, according to the official autopsy.
But speculation circulated about the death, rumors that Trump has since revisited in constant tweetstorms.
"A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough. So a young marathon runner just happened to faint in his office, hit her head on his desk, & die? I would think there is a lot more to this story than that? An affair? What about the so-called investigator? Read story!" the president tweeted Sunday.
"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. 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?" he tweeted Tuesday morning. "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?"
Klausutis said he has seen a "constant barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, innuendo and conspiracy theories" for almost 20 years.
"The frequency, intensity, ugliness, and promulgation of these horrifying lies ever increases on the internet," he wrote to Dorsey.
"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 has repeatedly and publicly denied any involvement in Lori Klausutis' death, including amid Trump's recent revival of the rumors.
A spokesperson for Twitter told the Daily News that "we are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family" but would not answer whether the tweets will be deleted.
"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," the company said.
