Hoisted by his own petard.

AlonzoPartriz · Post by **AlonzoPartriz** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:45 pm

The strange case of Fox News, Trump and the death of young Democrat Seth Rich

The revelation that Fox News made contact with the White House over a false and malicious story could spell trouble for the network – and the president
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Last week, the conspiracy theory that conservatives draped around Rich’s lifeless neck – that he was the source of the hacked DNC emails released by WikiLeaks at the height of the 2016 presidential race, and not Russia, as US intelligence insists – was revealed to have received a boost from the highest quarter. The former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, and allegedly even Donald Trump himself, were revealed to have been given advance notice of a sensational Fox News story that blamed Rich for the hack, and implied he had been murdered by Clinton acolytes as payback.

The only problem with the Fox story: it wasn’t true.

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... e-fox-news

About time too.

willyhilly · Post by **willyhilly** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:52 pm

I googled all this a few weeks ago and the conspiracy theory around Seth Rich was obviously fake news. These people are despicable. There was something similar in the Kennedy years when a woman linked to Jack Kennedy was mysteriously murdered whilst out walking. She was the wife of a top official or ex wife. Her funeral was attended by all the top dogs in Washington but her murder never solved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer Here it is, it's a great story. Why did they murder her? Because she was smoking dope with Jack?