All The Times Trump Has Accused People Of Murder

May 1, 1989Trump put out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the return of the death penalty in New York State, in response to charges of rape, robbery and attempted murder against five black teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated. “I want to hate these muggers and murderers,” the ad read, “they should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.”

December 12, 2013Trump hinted at foul play by former President Barack Obama in the death of Hawaii State Health Director Loretta Fuddy in a plane crash, connecting it to the birther conspiracy by pointing out that Fuddy had confirmed copies of Obama’s birth certificate.

February 15, 2016Trump joined with right-wing radio host Michael Savage in openly speculating about foul play in the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, which he called “unusual,” and didn’t push back when Savage suggested Obama may have been involved and called for a commission to investigate.

May 3, 2016In an interview with Fox News, Trump cited a flimsy National Enquirer report linking the father of then-rival Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to the Kennedy assasination, based on a photo of Oswald and a man resembling Cruz’s father, positing, “What was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death, before the shooting? It’s horrible.”

May 24, 2016Trump regurgitated a common right-wing conspiracy that Bill and Hillary Clinton murdered Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, whose death was ruled a suicide, calling the incident “very serious” and “very fishy” in an interview with the Washington Post.

June 23, 2016Trump implied that Obama was involved in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, which killed 49 people, over his refusal to say the words “radical Islamic terrorism,” stating, “There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”

November 29, 2017Trump first broaches the subject of the death of Scarborough’s aide while venting his complaints about NBC, tweeting, “Will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the ‘unsolved mystery’ that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!” after tweeting in 2016 that he would “tell the real story” of Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski.

August 10, 2019Trump retweeted a tweet connecting the death of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whose apparent suicide in prison is widely disputed, to Bill Clinton: The tweet read: “Died of SUICIDE on 24/7 SUICIDE WATCH? Yeah right! How does that happen #JefferyEpstein had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead,” and included the hashtag “#ClintonBodyCount.”

April 30, 2020In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump revisited his conspiracy about Scarborough, calling him “Psycho Joe ‘What Ever Happened To Your Girlfriend?’ Scarborough.”

May 2020Trump tweeted about Scarborough six times, calling for NBC parent company Comcast and the Florida police to open an investigation, speculating that the he and Klausutis had had an affair and referring to him “Psycho Cold Case Joe Scarborough.”

May 26, 2020Trump said the allegations he leveled against Scarborough are “not a Donald Trump original thought,” claiming that the conspiracy has existed since “long before I joined the chorus,” and stating that during interviews with Brzezinski, he would wonder “whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing?”