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Joe ScarboroughMember of the from 's districtIn office January 3, 1995 – September 5, 2001Preceded bySucceeded byPersonal detailsBornCharles Joseph Scarborough April 9, 1963 , U.S.Political party (since 2017)Other political affiliations (before 2017)Spouse(s)Melanie Hinton (m.1986; div.1999) Susan Waren (m.2001; div.2013) (m.2018)Children4Residence, U.S.Education () ()Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American host, musician, and former congressman from Florida. He is currently the co-host of on with , his spouse. He previously hosted on the same network. Scarborough was previously a and a and served in the from 1995 to 2001 as a for the of .

Scarborough was also a visiting fellow at the at the . He was named in the 2011 as one of the most influential people in the world.

Contents Early life[] Charles Joseph Scarborough was born in , , the son of Mary Joanna (née Clark) and George Francis Scarborough, a businessman; he has two siblings.Scarborough attended in . He earned a degree in history from the in 1985 and a degree from the in 1990. During this time he wrote music and produced CDs with his band, Dixon Mills, including the album Calling on Robert E. Lee, and he also coached football and taught high school.

Legal career[] Scarborough was admitted to in 1991, and practiced law in Pensacola.

Scarborough's most high-profile case was briefly representing , the killer of doctor , in 1993. He made several court appearances representing Griffin, before removing himself from the case, later saying: "There was no way in hell I could sit in at a civil trial, let alone a capital trial," referring to the prospect of prosecutors seeking the against Griffin. Scarborough assisted Griffin in choosing other counsel from the many who offered their services, however, and helped shield the family from the media exposure, .

Scarborough's political profile was also raised when he assisted with a , in late 1993, opposing a proposed 65 percent increase in the City of Pensacola's property taxes.

U.S. House of Representatives[] Elections[] Scarborough in 1994In 1994 Scarborough won the Republican Party primary for . The seat had come open when eight-term incumbent announced his retirement. In the general election Scarborough defeated the Democratic candidate, Pensacola attorney Vince "Vinnie" Whibbs Jr., with 61 percent of the vote. Whibbs was the son of former mayor . The district had not supported a Democratic candidate for U.S. president since . However, Democratic candidates had continued to hold most local offices well into the 1990s. Scarborough's win coincided with a large Republican wave that swept through the , as well as the entire United States. Republicans swept nearly all of the region's seats in the state legislature and have held them ever since.

Scarborough was reelected with 72 percent of the vote in 1996. In 1998 and 2000, he faced only write-in candidates as opposition.

Tenure[] During his congressional career, he received a 95 percent lifetime rating from the . He signed the . Scarborough served on the , , , and committees. In 1998 he was named chairman of the Civil Service Committee.

Scarborough was one of a group of about 40 freshmen Republican legislators who dubbed themselves the after . Scarborough was elected political director of the incoming legislators. The New Federalists called for sweeping cuts in the U.S. government, including plans to ", localize, consolidate, [or] eliminate" the Departments of , , and . Gingrich tapped Scarborough to head a Republican task force on education, and Scarborough declared, "Our goal is to get as much money, power, and authority out of Washington and get as much money, power, and authority into the classroom as possible." Rep. (R-Ohio), then chairman of the House Budget Committee, adopted Scarborough's language eliminating the federal Department of Education in the 1996 House Budget Resolution. The budget passed the House by a vote of 238–193.

Scarborough supported a number of positions while in Congress, including the , that made it a crime to harm a during the commission of other crimes.

Scarborough sponsored a bill to force the U.S. to withdraw from the after a four-year transition and voted to make the self-sufficient by eliminating federal funding. He also voted for the " Preservation act of 1995," which cut the projected growth of Medicare by $270 billion over ten years, and against the "Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996," which raised the to $5.15. Scarborough had a conservative voting record on , , and issues but was seen as on and causes, including supporting the closure of the and defending accused terrorist .

While in Congress, Scarborough received a number of awards, including the "Friend of the Taxpayer Award" from ; the "Guardian of Small Business Award" from the ; the "Spirit of Enterprise Award" from the ; the "Taxpayer's Hero Award" from the ; and the "Guardian of Seniors' Rights Award" from the .

Scarborough was one of the 228 members of the House who voted to in December 1998.

Committee memberships[] Electoral history[] : Results 1994–2000YearDemocraticVotesPctRepublicanVotesPctVince Whibbs70,41638%Joe Scarborough112,97462%Kevin Beck66,49527%Joe Scarborough175,94673%Tom Wells (write-in)6630%Joe Scarborough140,52599.5%UnopposedN/A0%Joe Scarborough226,473100%Resignation[] In May 2001, five months into his fourth term in Congress, Scarborough announced his intention to resign to spend more time with his children. Of his resignation, Scarborough said, "The realization has come home to me that they're at a critical stage of their lives and I would rather be judged at the end of my life as a father than as a congressman."

A was held in October 2001 to replace Scarborough.

Post-congressional politics[] After leaving Congress, he joined the as an environmental lawyer, headed by the controversial and prominent trial lawyer . He practiced law with the firm Beggs and Lane, the oldest firm in Florida. He was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002.

In August 2005, Scarborough confirmed reports that he had been asked to consider a challenge to U.S. Rep. for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator 's reelection bid. However, he announced later that month that he was renewing his contract with NBC.

In early 2009, Scarborough confirmed reports that he had been approached by Florida Republicans who wanted him to run for the Senate seat vacated by Republican . Scarborough said he was not likely to run as he believes he can have more influence over public policy as the host of Morning Joe than as a U.S. senator. However, he has not ruled out a political career in the future.

In spring of 2015, speculation began that Scarborough would run for . On Morning Joe, Scarborough attacked Democratic governor for antibusiness policies that led to move its headquarters from , to , . Scarborough followed this up with an op-ed in the state's largest newspaper, the , criticizing the business climate in the Nutmeg State.

On July 11, 2017, Scarborough announced on that he was leaving the Republican party to become an .

Conspiracy theory[] Main article: On July 20, 2001, one of Scarborough's aides, Lori Klausutis, was found dead from a head injury in his office in . The autopsy found that she had collapsed due to an undiagnosed heart condition and had struck her head. A theory that Scarborough was involved in the death was promoted by such people as publisher and filmmaker , who registered the domain name JoeScarboroughKilledHisIntern.com. Since 2017, as part of a war of words with Scarborough, President has raised this debunked theory and called for another investigation.

Media career[] Scarborough is the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, which features interviews with top newsmakers and politicians and analysis of the day's biggest stories. Previously, he hosted , a primetime news show. He and also briefly hosted a talk radio show called the Joe Scarborough Show on .

While still serving in Congress, Scarborough founded the free weekly Pensacola-area newspaper The Florida Sun in 1999. The paper later merged in 2001 and is now known as the Independent News.

In April 2003, he embarked upon a television career with the launch of on MSNBC, until he began hosting Morning Joe full-time.

In an for in August 2016, Scarborough argued that the Republican party must "dump " as their . Drawing attention to Trump's remarks about and the , Scarborough wrote: "A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens."

In June 2017, Scarborough and Brzezinski were the targets of President Donald Trump's , in which, in response to their coverage of , referred to him as "Psycho Joe" and called her "low I.Q. Crazy Mika," while asserting that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when he previously encountered her at . The hosts responded with an op-ed in The Washington Post, in which they described White House officials telling them that the president would kill a pending article if they apologized to Trump for their coverage of him.The president's tweets received criticism from numerous Republican lawmakers, including , Senators , , , , and .

In August 2019, Scarborough drew criticism after posting -driven tweets about the death of , an American financier multimillionaire and convicted sex offender. Scarborough tweeted: "A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men's lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably...Russian."

Morning Joe[] Scarborough on Morning Joe with co-host (and now spouse) Mika BrzezinskiIn May 2007, Scarborough became one of the rotating hosts auditioning for the slot vacated by on MSNBC. Scarborough, with his morning show, won the slot permanently in July 2007.

Morning Joe is a weekday morning news and talk show, airing from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. . It features Joe Scarborough providing both enterprise reporting and discussion on the news of the day in a panel format with co-hosts and . The show features in-depth discussions that help drive the day's political conversation.

In 2007, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Willie, Mika, MSNBC president Phil Griffin, and Joe to cut the ribbon on the new set of Morning Joe at 30 Rock.

Scarborough has covered presidential elections and conventions. In 2015 he interviewed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and abruptly ended the interview, but resumed it after commercial break. During the 2016 election, Scarborough criticized the Democratic National Committee for trying to protect Hillary Clinton and ensure she received the Democratic party's presidential nomination, calling the DNC "rigged" against voters. 2017 marked the program's 10th year on air.

According to in 2016, delivered MSNBC's biggest total viewer and demo audiences in the time period ever and beat third-place CNN in both categories. This marked Morning Joe's seventh straight year topping CNN in total viewers. Scarborough also is a regular guest on NBC and MSNBC news programs and has appeared on Meet the Press numerous times. In April 2012 Scarborough guest-hosted Meet the Press.

Radio[] On December 8, 2008, Scarborough and Morning Joe co-host began hosting a two-hour late-morning on (770 AM) in , replacing 12-year veteran host . As of April 26, 2010, the radio show was placed on "hiatus", which Scarborough said was to redevelop its format into a new three-hour show. The show never returned.

Books[] Scarborough released his first book, Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day: the Real Deal on how Politicians, Bureaucrats, and other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America, on October 4, 2005.

In his second book, The Last Best Hope, released on June 9, 2009, Scarborough outlined a plan to help guide conservatives back to a political majority after their defeats in the and the .

On November 12, 2013, Scarborough released his third book, The Right Path: From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics—and Can Again.

Music[] Scarborough released his debut , , on June 23, 2017. A music video for the title track of the -inspired EP was also released on the same day. Scarborough plans to release a new EP every month for the next four years.

Personal life[] In 1986, Scarborough married Melanie Hinton. The couple had two sons and divorced in 1999. While interviewing in June 2005, Scarborough expressed concerns about the possibility that one of his sons may have suffered damage (See ). Scarborough said, "My son, born in 1991, has a slight form of called . When I was practicing law and also when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me and they would bring me videotapes of their children, and they were all around the age of my son or younger. So, something happened in 1989."

In October 2001, Scarborough married his second wife, Susan Waren, a former aide to Florida governor and a former congressional committee staffer. Their daughter was born in August 2003; their son was born in May 2008. Scarborough and Waren were divorced in January 2013.

Scarborough currently resides in , an affluent suburb near New York City. In early 2017 during a trip to , France, he became engaged to his co-host . The couple married on November 24, 2018, in Washington D.C. in a ceremony officiated by U.S. Representative .

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Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump for about MSNBC's calling the attacks "vile" and "baseless."

Trump's smears about Scarborough center on the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, who worked in his Florida office when he served in Congress. Scarborough's opponents and a bevy of internet trolls have tried to blame him for her death, even though he was in Washington at the time. Klausutis' widower, T.J. Klausutis, asked Twitter last week to remove the tweets, though the platform has said it doesn't plan to."I know Joe Scarborough. Joe is a friend of mine. I don't know T.J. Klausutis. Joe can weather vile, baseless accusations but T.J.? His heart is breaking. Enough already," Romney has been a frequent critic of Trump, and his tweet on Wednesday appears to make him the second member of his party in Congress to publicly call out the President over his support of the conspiracy theory. Earlier this week, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to stop touting the theory, writing, "It will destroy us." Trump, who had brought up the baseless theory once in 2017, ratcheted it up on May 4 and said "Concast," his derogatory name for MSNBC's owner Comcast, "should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough." Since then, his tweets have become even more pointed, essentially accusing Scarborough of murder.Read MoreT.J. Klausutis' private letter last week to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking him to remove Trump's tweets said that his late wife's "passing is the single most painful thing that I have ever had to deal with in my 52 years and continues to haunt her parents and sister."T.J. said he has tried to honor his late wife by protecting her memory "as I would have protected her in life."He said that's why he was writing to Dorsey."The President's tweet that suggests that Lori was murdered — without evidence (and contrary to the official autopsy) — is a violation of Twitter's community rules and terms of service," he wrote. "An ordinary user like me would be banished from the platform for such a tweet but I am only asking that these tweets be removed."Scarborough's co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski has also applied pressure, including on their program "Morning Joe," where she said to Trump on the air last week that he "can keep tweeting about Joe, but you're just hurting other people." Brzezinski also asked for a meeting with Dorsey. On Tuesday morning, New York Times columnist Kara Swisher published the Klausutis letter and Brzezinski read it on the air. Three hours later, Twitter told CNN Business that it would not be removing the tweets."We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family," a Twitter spokesperson said. "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."CNN's Manu Raju, Brian Stelter and Donie O'Sullivan contributed to this report.

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Information storage and accessApplySave Preferences Accept allChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Trump's Joe Scarborough Conspiracy Tweets Test Twitter's Approach ... Follow Us © 1996-2020 News Communication TRENDING: By - 05/27/20 10:43 AM EDT 3,505 Just In... Sen. (R-Utah) came to the defense of former Rep. (R-Fla.) and the widower of a former Scarborough staffer after said without evidence again on Wednesday that the woman's death was "a Cold Case" that would haunt the "Morning Joe" co-host.

The president's feud with Scarborough and fellow "Morning Joe" co-host is well-documented, but Trump has recently pushed the conspiracy theory that Scarborough was involved in the death of , an aide who worked in his Florida office when Scarborough was a congressman.

Klausutis died in 2001 after an undiagnosed heart condition caused her to lose consciousness and hit her head on a desk. Her death was ruled an accident, and Scarborough was in Washington at the time.

ADVERTISEMENTTrump , “Psycho Joe Scarborough is rattled, not only by his bad ratings but all of the things and facts that are coming out on the internet about opening a Cold Case. He knows what is happening!”

Romney, one of Trump's most vocal GOP critics and the only Republican senator to vote to convict him in his impeachment trial, didn't directly mention the president directly in his response:



> I know Joe Scarborough. Joe is a friend of mine. I don't know T.J. Klausutis. Joe can weather vile, baseless accusations but T.J.? His heart is breaking. Enough already.

— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney)

ADVERTISEMENTTimothy Klausutis, Lori’s widower, on Tuesday wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, asking him to remove previous tweets Trump had made about his deceased wife and Scarborough.

Twitter has apologized for the matter but says Trump's unfounded claims will not be taken down.

Asked about the matter by reporter on Tuesday, Trump said that he saw the letter but countered that he believed Lori Klausutis’s family wanted to “get to the bottom” of her death.

“It’s a very suspicious thing, and I hope that somebody gets to the bottom of it. It would be a very good thing. As you know, there is no statute of limitations,” the president said Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, published an editorial Wednesday sharply criticizing Trump on the issue.

ADVERTISEMENT"Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories — recall his innuendo in 2016 about ’s father and the JFK assassination — but his latest accusation against MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is ugly even for him," .

"Mr. Trump always hits back at critics, and Mr. Scarborough has called the President mentally ill, among other things. But suggesting that the talk-show host is implicated in the woman's death isn't political hardball. It's a smear," it continued. "Mr. Trump rightly denounces the lies spread about him in the Steele dossier, yet here he is trafficking in the same sort of trash."



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