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anneboleyn

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25. The Russian/Wikileaks paid trolls are posting stories re: Rich on Reddit like mad
Thu May 18, 2017, 10:41 AM
May 2017

They were running wild with it yesterday (right around the time DU was attacked again -- it looks like they were linked). Of course one wonders why -- if it WERE a murder as these Pizzagate conspiracy theorists/Wikileaks garbage consumers believe, and it was ordered by the DNC and/or Hillary, why wouldn't those people (presumably "professionals&quot have been better at making it look like a robbery by stealing his wallet, etc? These whack jobs never seem to think of that for some reason when they are running wild with their Hillary stories. In their worldview the evil doers always leave behind obvious clues they "find."

Honestly I have no idea what they think they are getting out of it. They won't convince anyone of anything, and the police aren't taking this case anywhere they want it to go (lock her up, of course, since that is their life mission). The family of Seth Rich wants no part of them or their conspiracy theories, and the police consider it a robbery attempt gone awry, which does happen, even in nice neighborhoods in which such crime is rather rare. It might also have been a gang initiation as this happens as well. Rich was out at 4:30 a.m. when he was murdered, and such an early hour, when the neighborhood would have been sleeping and no one would have been on the streets, is exactly the time of day when a criminal might try to exploit a lone person in a neighborhood like this one.

These jerks have been harassing the family with their theories, and of course because neither the police or the family want any part of their conspiracies they believe the "Deep State" (ruled over of course by the apparently god-superhero-batman-powered Hillary) is behind some massive cover-up. So it's basically Pizzagate redux. But this seems worse to me since they are going after a family in mourning.

It's a concerted effort by paid Russian trolls, who by far make up the most of the Seth Rich crowd, and I suspect they were after us yesterday as well. Reddit is very close to killing their subreddit (named after The Donald -- it is the most embarrassing example of hero-worship and blind cultlike devotion that I've ever seen especially to a modern politician -- it's hard to know if it's all genuinely stupid people posting endless clumsy spin on Trump and very cultish fanboy nonsense or a bunch of paid trolls encouraging a handful of Trump cult believers and a few curious onlookers. My guess is the later -- just imho of course).

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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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