From the article:
Some
of President Trump’s most stalwart media defenders broke ranks with him
on Wednesday, aghast at his baseless smears against the MSNBC host Joe
Scarborough, whom Mr. Trump has all but accused of killing a former
staff member two decades ago despite a total lack of evidence.
The
backlash even spread to the senior levels of Mr. Trump’s party on
Capitol Hill, where the No. 3 House Republican, Representative Liz
Cheney of Wyoming, said the president should drop the matter and focus
on leading the country through the coronavirus pandemic. “I would urge
him to stop it,” she told reporters, referring to the false allegations.
And this, from the article:
The president’s attacks have caused anguish to the family of Lori Klausutis, the staff member in Mr. Scarborough’s former congressional office who died in 2001 when a heart condition caused her to fall and hit her head on a desk. Mr. Scarborough was not present and the police ruled her death an accident. Ms. Klausutis’s relatives have said that the president’s evocation of her death and his unfounded insinuation that she had an affair with Mr. Scarborough have caused them deep distress.
And this, from the article:
The president’s attacks have caused anguish to the family of Lori Klausutis, the staff member in Mr. Scarborough’s former congressional office who died in 2001 when a heart condition caused her to fall and hit her head on a desk. Mr. Scarborough was not present and the police ruled her death an accident. Ms. Klausutis’s relatives have said that the president’s evocation of her death and his unfounded insinuation that she had an affair with Mr. Scarborough have caused them deep distress.
