Anderson Cooper on Trump pushing Scarborough conspiracy: 'He’s just a little man'

CNN’s Anderson Cooper ripped into President Trump Tuesday night for continuing to push a conspiracy that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough murdered a staffer when he was in congress in 2001. The staffer, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in his district office after she apparently fell and hit her head on the side of a desk, resulting in a fatal blood clot. Her death was ruled an accident, and the medical examiner concluded Klausutis had an undiagnosed heart condition that caused her to collapse. Yet Trump has tweeted multiple times in recent weeks pointing the finger at Scarborough.

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ANDERSON COOPER: What a little man. He's just a little man. He's the leader of the free world, and he is a little, little man.

KYLIE MAR: Anderson Cooper hammered President Trump Tuesday night for continuing to push a conspiracy that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough murdered a staffer when he was in Congress in 2001. The staffer's husband sent a letter to Twitter asking that they remove Trump's tweets, stating, "the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him-- the memory of my dead wife-- and perverted it for perceived political gain." Trump was asked about the letter at a press conference earlier on Tuesday.

- Mr. President, though, have you seen the letter that was written by her husband begging Twitter to delete your tweets, talking about how hard it's been for his family, for him, to deal with that?

DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, I have. But I'm sure that, ultimately, they want to get to the bottom of it, and it's a very serious situation.

KYLIE MAR: Twitter declined to remove Trump's Scarborough tweets just as the president declined to stop pushing the conspiracy.

ANDERSON COOPER: Despite the pain and the pleas of her husband and the family, he doesn't even have the guts to say he doesn't care about what they think. No, no. He doesn't have the guts to say, you know what? I don't care what they think, because this serves my political purposes. That's why he's doing it. He doesn't have the guts to say that, because he is just a little man, despite his girth and size. He's a little man inside, and he knows that.

KYLIE MAR: Anderson also touched on the fact that Twitter fact-checked Trump's tweets on Tuesday for potentially containing misleading information about mail-in voting.

ANDERSON COOPER: You won't find the facts in the president's statements. I mean, Twitter is now acknowledging you won't find facts in the president's [? statements. ?] That's where we are. You think it's normal. Like, you start to think this is just normal. It's not. Man, we are in trouble.