White House now faces questions about Trump tweets suggesting Scarborough committed murder

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany parried questions Tuesday about President Trump's tweets regarding the 2001 death of an intern working for congressman-turned-MSNBC host Joe Scarborough – suggesting reporters find answers in a clip in which Scarborough seemed to make light of the matter.

"I would point you back to Joe Scarborough who laughed and joked about this item on Don Imus's show," McEnany said.

She said the show occurred in 2003. Mediate on Tuesday posted a clip to which McEnany may have been referring.

Trump later addressed the issue at a White House event, calling it "very sad and very suspicious" and saying saying that "it's a very suspicious thing and I hope somebody gets to the bottom of it." 

Trump and Scarborough, a former Republican, have engaged in an on-again, off-again public battle for the past several years. 

The exchanges reignited in early May after Scarborough and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski reported bad polling numbers for Trump and criticized his interpretation of coronavirus statistics the night before. 

Trump then suggested MSNBC parent company Comcast reopen a "cold case" related to the intern's death when Scarborough was a House member.

“Concast should open up a long overdue Florida Cold Case against Psycho Joe Scarborough,” Trump tweeted after the cable TV hosts' comments.

“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,” the tweet continued.

Trump tweeted early Tuesday: "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."

"When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly? Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now? A total nut job!," Trump also tweeted Tuesday.

Timothy Klausutis, the widower of intern Lori Kaye Klausutis, recently asked Twitter to remove Trump's tweets.

Klausutis states that Lori "had an undiagnosed heart condition" and that she "fell and hit her head on her desk at work."

"These 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," Klausutis wrote.

When asked during a Tuesday press conference if he had seen the widower's letter, President Trump said that he had. "But I'm sure that ultimately they want to get to the bottom of it and it's a very serious situation," he said.