Gaetz Got Trump To Accuse Joe Scarborough Of Murder

Mediaite reports:

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was responsible for feeding former President Donald Trump the bizarre conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough had murdered a staffer back when he was a member of Congress, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin’s interview with the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The ex-president was also easily swayed by his advisers, Griffin said, and offered an anecdote about Gaetz to illustrate the “kind of chaos” in Trump’s White House, saying that she saw him with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in the West Wing and the Florida congressman had a folder with him.

Read the full article. Per Griffin, the above-cited folder contained printouts of a far-right site’s claims about Scarborough. The very next morning Trump tweeted the claim accusing Scarborough of murder.

Matt Gaetz Allegedly Fed Trump Bonkers Conspiracy Theory About Joe Scarborough Murdering Staffer https://t.co/M8DGeHu5zW

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 29, 2022