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Widower to Twitter: Delete Trump Suggestion That My Wife Was Murdered

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The widower of a woman who died nearly two decades ago is
   asking Twitter to delete U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated tweets
   insinuating that her boss, a former Republican
   congressman-turned-TV-critic of Trump, murdered her.

   Research engineer Timothy Klausutis told Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chief
   executive, last week that "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."

   "My request is simple: Please delete these tweets," Klausutis wrote.

   Twitter did not promise to delete Trump's tweets, but a company
   spokesman said Tuesday it was "deeply sorry about the pain these
   statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the
   family."

   Twitter said it was "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."

   A 2001 autopsy concluded that 28-year-old Lori Klausutis, an aide to
   Congressman Joe Scarborough in one of his field offices in the southern
   state of Florida, had an undiagnosed heart condition, passed out and
   died when she fell and hit her head on her desk when no one else was in
   her office at the time.

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