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muriel_volestrangler

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19. The whole thing is a hoax, perpetrated by Fox News who planted the story
Thu May 18, 2017, 08:25 AM
May 2017
On Monday night, Rod Wheeler, a private investigator and Fox News contributor, put things in motion during an interview with WTTG-TV, a Fox affiliate in Washington.

Wheeler, who was under contract with the family of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was fatally shot in July, told WTTG-TV evidence existed that proved Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks before his death.
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But Tuesday afternoon, Wheeler told CNN he had no evidence to suggest Rich had contacted Wikileaks before his death.

Wheeler instead said he only learned about the possible existence of such evidence through the reporter he spoke to for the FoxNews.com story. He explained that the comments he made to WTTG-TV were intended to simply preview Fox News' Tuesday story. The WTTG-TV news director did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

"I only got that (information) from the reporter at Fox News," Wheeler told CNN.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/index.html

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They are saying he leaked DNC emails to wikileaks so the investigation applegrove May 2017 #1
That guy's poor family. I saw an uptick on Facebook and twitter. Some of the stuff on twitter airmid May 2017 #4
They are hitting Reddit too, and many appear to be bots. If they think this will distract from the anneboleyn May 2017 #29
Face it. It's all they've got. countryjake May 2017 #2
"Squirrel" senegal1 May 2017 #3
. Egnever May 2017 #5
It's all Russian BS Renew Deal May 2017 #6
Or faux, hannity, breitbart, etc. nt babylonsister May 2017 #8
Oh, I think it'd be appropriate to use the old terms here... JHB May 2017 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author anneboleyn May 2017 #24
This is along the lines of the "Hillary Clinton murdered so-and-so" meme. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #7
Didn't you know Seth Rich has been added to the Clinton body count? nt justiceischeap May 2017 #12
Russian bots or hackers I bet. NT Ilsa May 2017 #9
The hacker who attacked DU yesterday referenced this conspiracy theory. yardwork May 2017 #10
a troll was all over the fb page w it while we were down. mopinko May 2017 #18
It was being spread/retweeted by bots on the first day justiceischeap May 2017 #13
It is an attempt to create a distraction. Adrahil May 2017 #14
They keep forgetting that Trump is president, not Hillary. Pushing the Rich story makes Trump look anneboleyn May 2017 #27
His family mercuryblues May 2017 #15
I was unaware of this story until yesterday and today HuffPo has an article about Vinca May 2017 #16
The awful, posthumous smearing of this fine lad is being furthered by Snarkoleptic May 2017 #17
The whole thing is a hoax, perpetrated by Fox News who planted the story muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #19
I hope the family sues FOX Crap. Madam45for2923 May 2017 #20
Republican TV fox is behind all the fake news crap. Sunlei May 2017 #22
Republican TV fox pushes this fake bullshit along with the usual RW like breibart, twitter.facebook Sunlei May 2017 #21
"Someone is making a concerted effort..." Tarc May 2017 #23
The Russian/Wikileaks paid trolls are posting stories re: Rich on Reddit like mad anneboleyn May 2017 #25
Aw - and there I thought they had gone ahead jmg257 May 2017 #26
I've noticed that's being pushed a lot. xor May 2017 #28
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