The conspiracy theories about Rich spread globally, amplified by domestic and international sources. But they didn’t reach a boiling point until May 16, 2017, when FoxNews.com published an explosive story alleging that Rich was WikiLeaks’ source for the DNC emails. If true, Fox’s story was a bombshell, undercutting the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia hacked the DNC and revealing a possible cover-up at the highest levels of American government.
The biggest names at Fox — Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs — fell over themselves to hype the story. But no Fox personalitythan Sean Hannity. Hannity touted it on his radio and primetime TV shows for multiple days in a row, telling his viewers that if a “disgruntled” Democrat had leaked the emails, it “could completely shatter the narrative that, in fact, WikiLeaks was working with the Russians.
But within hours of its publication, Fox’s Rich-WikiLeaks story began to fall apart. The private investigator hired by the Riches changed his tune and said he’d seen no evidence of a Rich-WikiLeaks connection; a spokesman for Joel and Mary Rich denied the story; and the D.C. police departmentthere was “nothing that we can find that any of this is accurate.
Who murdered him, then. Where are the answers?
Seth Rich’s father is Bob Ross? Small world.
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