Matt Gaetz Fed Trump Conspiracy Theories About MSNBC Host

According to testimony from former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, Matt Gaetz brought a folder of conspiracy theories into the Oval Office during a meeting with Trump that contained debunked information about MSNBC host, and former Congressman, Joe Scarborough. The very next day, Trump tweeted out a conspiracy about Scarborough that was contained in the Gaetz documents. This behavior was disgusting at the time, and even more so now that we know who sparked it. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

According to testimony given to the January 6th committee by former, uh, white House Communications director, Alyssa Farra Griffin. Matt Gates came into the Oval Office one day with a folder that, uh, Griffin described as filled with conspiracy theories about Ms. N b host and of course, former Congressman Joe Scarborough. The day after Donald Trump received that folder of conspiracy theories that Matt Gates gave to him, Trump started tweeting out the conspiracy theories from 20 years ago about Scarborough. So I'm gonna read you word for word what Ms. Farrah Griffin told to the January 6th committee. I'm waiting outside of the outer oval with Gates and Jordan, and Jim and I are just shooting, shooting the crap. Uh, he was an old boss of mine and Gates has this folder, and I said, you know, what is that? She then said, the folder contained conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern. She continued, and I said, please do not bring that into the West Wing or to the Oval Office. We were literally outside of the outer oval. And just as I'm saying that, I said, you cannot put that in front of the President. He, he gets ushered in. And sure enough, within by the next morning, the former president's tweeting wild conspiracy theories about a cable news host, you know, allegedly murdering his intern.

Now, the initial story, um, about the woman who passed away in the office of Joe Scarborough when he was serving, uh, in the capacity that Matt Gates now serves as the representative for Florida's first congressional district, a woman who was not an intern, she was an aide, was working at his Fort Walton Beach office. She fainted on her way falling to the ground, she hit her head on the desk, and that killed her. It was later revealed that she had an undiagnosed heart condition. That is what led to the fainting, which led to the head heading, which led to her unfortunate death at the time that this happened. By the way, Joe Scarborough was nearly a thousand miles away in Washington, DC so he, he didn't kill her because he definitely wasn't there like that much is pretty obvious. And that happened in 2001 before he worked for msnbc.

It's when he was the congressman, and there had been investigations, as I mentioned, there had been the autopsy. That's where they discovered the heart condition. Joe Scarborough was never charged. He was never even, you know, implicated. He was never really investigated as possibly murdering this woman because that's not what happened. But Matt Gates knew that Joe Scarborough was going hard against Donald Trump, and he wanted to give Donald Trump a little bit of, a little bit of ammo to take down this uppity Ms. N B C host who was attacking him. And so this is what he did. And Donald Trump came out the next day as Farrah Griffin mentioned, in a multi tweet thread,

Constantly suggesting Joe Scarborough murdered somebody. Now, here's the thing, I am no fan of Joe Scarborough, either as a member of Congress or as a host on msnbc. Let's not forget that Joe Scarborough, after Trump had won the 2016 election, but before he was sworn in, was down at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve partying with him, okay? They used to be friends, so, you know, take whatever.