#seth rich

[granmabarb]

His name is Seth Rich. American hero.👊🇺🇸

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https://nitter.net/TheSCIF/status/2020268895152570875

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Right-wing ghouls revive the Seth Rich conspiracy theory 10 years after his murder

Matt Gertz at MMFA:

It's 2026 and MAGA lickspittle Benny Johnson is hosting a discussion of whether Hillary Clinton had former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich killed in 2016. “This is why it's called a conspiracy theory,” former American Conservative contributing editor Chris Brunet told Johnson during a lengthy interview about Rich’s tragic murder on Johnson’s show Wednesday. “It's because it's a conspiracy of top DNC officials, including Hillary Clinton, to essentially murder Seth Rich in cold blood, is the conspiracy theory. And I believe that's what happened. I don’t believe he was the victim of a random mugging.” Brunet added that President Donald Trump “should open a new investigation into the murder of Seth Rich to try to find his killers.” “I would love for there to be a full investigation into this,” Johnson replied, later telling his audience to subscribe to Brunet’s Substack and “send tips if you know anything about this.”

These ghouls are reviving the Seth Rich conspiracy theory nearly a decade after it first became a cause célèbre for the online right, which baselessly linked Rich’s tragic murder on July 10, 2016, in what police determined was an unsolved botched robbery while he was walking home late at night in Washington, D.C., to WikiLeaks’ release 12 days later of thousands of internal DNC emails whose contents damaged Clinton’s presidential campaign. 

News accounts citing intelligence sources quickly suggested that Russian hackers had stolen the emails and provided them to WikiLeaks; the U.S. intelligence community publicly stated in October 2016 that Russia had hacked the DNC; and the final report from then-special counsel Robert Mueller, who secured indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers for the DNC hack, concluded that the emails were stolen and released through WikiLeaks as part of a Kremlin plot to undermine Clinton’s campaign. But right-wing conspiracy theorists, seeking to undermine arguments that Trump was too close to the Kremlin, claimed based on just about nothing that Rich had been the true source of the emails, and that he had been murdered — perhaps on Clinton’s order — in retaliation for their release. 

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This was perhaps the saddest and most grotesque saga I’ve seen come out of the right-wing media in my 19 years at Media Matters. And as the 10th anniversary of Rich’s murder approaches, the conspiracy theorists are back.  The hook for Brunet’s appearance on Johnson’s show is an allegation from attorney Ty Clevenger, posted online Monday and boosted the next day by the conspiracy theory site Gateway Pundit, claiming that “an attorney for the government told me that I would soon be getting confirmation that several hundred pages of documents related to Seth Rich were found in a previously-hidden room at FBI headquarters” where they were supposedly “among the files designated for destruction.”

10 years ago, former DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered. The murder spawned unhinged conspiracy theories among the far-right fever swamps.

10 years later, MAGA hack Benny Johnson held a discussion on the death of Rich on his show.

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

FBI Reveals it has More Information on Slain DNC Staffer Seth Rich But Won't Release Most of it for 66 YEARS - The Free Thought Project

"disclosure of the records would harm an FBI investigation into the allegations that Russians had hacked into U.S. systems"

66 years to release data they originally claimed they never had in the first place is beyond absurd! As has been the case with the entire ordeal surrounding Seth Rich's death, something doesn't seem quite right.

[wherelibertydwells]

[phroyd]

nowthispolitics 

The parents of Seth Rich reached a settlement with Fox News resolving a 2018 lawsuit that accused the network of ‘extreme and outrageous’ conduct in the wake of their son’s death. Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, was shot and killed in a still-unsolved murder on July 10, 2016. A Fox News article published in May 2017 by reporter Malia Zimmerman made a false and baseless claim, citing unnamed sources, that Rich was killed in retaliation for leaking DNC emails to WikiLeaks in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. The article was retracted a week later, but its baseless claims were repeated by Fox News host Sean Hannity and contributed to wild conspiracy theories spread by fringe groups on both the right and left. The lies and myths surrounding Rich’s death only added to his family's grief and reportedly complicated the actual investigation into the crime. A January 2017 report by U.S. intelligence officials concluded definitively that it was the Russian government, and not Rich, that was responsible for hacking the DNC. In a statement, Rich's parents urged the media to take ‘genuine caution in the future.’ The terms of the settlement are undisclosed.

[Source: Instagram]

Phroyd

[gold-standard]

[ml-pnp]

Report: Trump offered Assange pardon if he would deny Russia hacked DNC emails (Update: Rohrabacher 'at no time did I talk to President Trump')

"It is a complete fabrication and a total lie."

[mediamattersforamerica]

Good. Propagandists who ran with a conspiracy theory about a murdered DNC staffer should be shunned.