About

#JusticeForCarolyn is a hashtag created in retaliation to President Donald Trump's tweets which pushed the conspiracy theory that TV host Joe Scarborough murdered his employee, Lori Klausutis. The hashtag created in May 2020, is based around a false claim that Trump murdered his personal assistant, Carolyn Gombell, because he had gotten her pregnant. The hashtag went trending soon after Twitter officials refused to take down Trump's tweets regarding Joe Scarborough after being requested to do so by Klausustis' widow.

Origin

On May 26th, 2020, Twitter parody account @TheTweetOfGod^[2] tweeted "Donald Trump killed his personal assistant, Carolyn Gombell, in October 2000. He strangled her because he'd gotten her pregnant and was threatening to tell the press. Then he bribed NYPD Police Chief Bernie Kierik to cover it up. IT'S TIME TO INVESTIGATE. #JusticeForCarolyn" which received over 110,500 likes and 53,700 retweets in a day. The account continued in a thread saying,

FACT: Carolyn Gombell's mother has AN AUDIO RECORDING of her daughter the night before she was killed saying, "If something happens to me it was Donald."
FACT: Forensics at first tentatively matched the residual thumbprints found on Carolyn's neck as 'matching' Trump's own (small) hands, but that finding was later amended and officially ruled 'inconclusive'.
FACT: In his 2009 autobiography "One Good Cop," Kerik referred to 'a certain well-known real-estate magnate' for whom he had 'made certain inconvenient facts disappear' (page 243).
By the way, it's also interesting that Carolyn's New York roommate Michelle White 'committed suicide' by jumping in front of a subway train NOT TWO WEEKS LATER.
And OF COURSE you won't find any reference to this stuff online. It's called a cover-up, people. Don't be naive.

Precursor

On May 4th, 2020, Donald J. Trump^[10] began tweeting about the Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory saying, "“Concast” should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough. I know him and Crazy Mika well, used them beautifully in the last Election, dumped them nicely, and will state on the record that he is “nuts”. Besides, bad ratings! #OPENJOECOLDCASE" which accumulated over 103,900 likes in 23 days. He continued on May 26th, saying, "The opening of a Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough was not a Donald Trump original thought, this has been going on for years, long before I joined the chorus. In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me, I would always be thinking about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing?"^[1] (shown below). The New York Times^[8][9] released a letter from Klausustis' widow to take the tweets down and Twitter released a statement saying, “We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family. 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.”

Spread

On May 26th, 2020, Mitt Romney parody Twitter account @WokeMitt^[3] tweeted, "If Donald Trump was able to murder Carolyn Gombell and cover it up, how many other women has Trump murdered that we don’t even know about? We need an investigation now! #JusticeForCarolyn" which gained over 5,000 likes and 1,900 retweets in a day (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @PalmerReport^[4] tweeted, "I don’t care that Donald Trump didn’t really murder Carolyn Gombell. I don’t care that Carolyn Gombell doesn’t even exist. I’m still demanding #JusticeForCarolyn because why the hell not? If Trump can demand investigations into imaginary murders, the rest of us can too!" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 19,700 likes and 5,800 retweets in a day.

On May 26th, 2020, Twitter user @NancyLeeGrahn^[5] tweeted, "Apparently, #DonalTrump is not only a pedophile, rapist, money launderer & tax evader, but also an evidenced murderer according to new reports just out. I understand they found her remains wrapped in long red ties with strands of a bleached weave matching his. #JusticeForCarolyn" (shown below). The tweet gained over 1,900 likes in a day. The hashtag began trending and Redditor Unidentified-Liquid asked for an explanation in a post to r/OutoftheLoop^[6] that received over 2,700 points (93% upvoted) in a day. Heavy^[7] published an article explaining the trending hashtag.

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