On May 21, Timothy Klausutis wrote a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. In it, Klausutis pleaded with Dorsey to excise a conspiracy-laden, fact-free tweet the president of the United States sent out over Memorial Day weekend, a tweet that implied Klausutis’ deceased wife, Lori, was secretly murdered by then-Congressman Joe Scarborough. Klausutis explained that there was no one with actual knowledge of the case who believed Lori’s death was anything other than a terrible tragedy brought on by an undiagnosed heart condition. But Trump and his dumb son, Trump Jr., continue to promote the false story, creating further anguish for the family of Lori Klausutis.
Many across the Twitter platform called on Dorsey to censure the president, but the CEO refused, citing freedom of speech. One of the more popular satirical Twitter accounts is that of God, or @TheTweetOfGod. God decided to get his own investigation started by calling for #JusticeForCarolyn.
The tweets, and the subsequent trending hashtag, were all about a fabricated former personal assistant to Trump named “Carolyn Gombell.”
And like all good conspiracies, a big part of the conspiracy is that anything that cannot be supported by the evidence is proof that a conspiracy is afoot!
#JusticeforCarolyn took off, and many people got into the act of creating a false set of facts and images proving that this person who does not exist actually existed, and her death should be investigated.
So far, Twitter has not censored God’s tweets about Trump and the “demise” of his former “personal assistant.”
On Tuesday, May 26, Trump—who has been manically tweeting and retweeting lies and half truths at a pace that is distressing—went right back on his campaign to distract from the fact that more than 100,000 Americans have died due to his mishandling of the country’s public health response to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, May 27, Donald Trump continued his 360-degree attacks on facts and information, tweeting out lies about COVID-19 and his lame response, saying random things about “Obamagate,” threatening to regulate social media platforms, projecting voter fraud in this coming election, and once again implying that Joe Scarborough is a murderer.
For many of us, the tweets of a satirical account pretending to be the voice of the Judeo-Christian god should not be indistinguishable in reliable historic content from the president of the United States’ account. But here we are.
