Newt Gingrich peddles unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich

The same PI also admitted that he only claimed that he uncovered evidence connecting Rich to WikiLeaks because producers at D.C.’s local Fox affiliate told him to. The new theories, which were covered on Fox News even as the source recanted, rely not on criminal evidence but on the fact that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered a reward for information about Rich’s killing and gave a meandering non-answer when asked whether Rich was his source.

Which leads to the most important question of all: is this all just another fake news diversion, or is there more to the Seth Rich murder?

“As we’ve seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press”, a spokesperson for the family said in a statement, according to BuzzFeed News. Theorists on the left also attribute former DNC chairperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s comments as evidence of a conspiracy against Bernie Sanders.

Jones, the far-right broadcaster notorious for pushing dozens of freakish conspiracy theories, initially suggested that Wheeler “got in the laptop” that Rich was using.

The WikiLeaks dumps, released late a year ago during the heated 2016 election, revealed high-level corruption in the DNC created to sabotage then-Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, would later repeat that Russian Federation was not the source of the email dumps, and while continuing to mention Rich during his news interviews, Assange refused to confirm nor deny that the staffer was a source.

Meanwhile, Kim Dotcom has promised more information will be released on his interaction with Seth Rich by tomorrow.

Kim Dotcom, an Internet hacker and businessman, claimed he was responsible for the DNC email leak -Seth Rich was a source of data for him.

Newsweek learned Wednesday the Federal Bureau of Investigation was in no way involved in probing Rich’s death despite the Fox News revelation, while the 26-year-old’s family released a statement damning the conspiracy theories in the wake of their son’s death.

Then Wheeler admitted that he never spoke to the investigator. The family debunked the idea but the rumors just won’t go away. He spent the rest of the week covering what he described as potentially “one of the biggest scandals in American history”.

Bauman, the family’s spokesman, told us that he and Aaron Rich, Seth Rich’s brother, had encouraged Rich’s parents to make the video “in order to thank folks who had given money to the GoFundMe effort”.

Kim Dotcom is not the only one pushing the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.

United States authorities have accused Russian operatives of being the source of the leaks. Hannity has, however, reached out to invite Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder, who is now in New Zealand fighting extradition to the USA, where he is wanted on charges of copyright infringement and money laundering, on to his show. “I was involved.” He said a statement would be issued on Tuesday (23 May) but – at least at the time of writing – provided no evidence of the alleged links. Unfortunately, Gingrich’s embrace of a discredited and completely unsupported conspiracy theory craters the credibility of his argument.

Podesta said GOP congressional leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have chosen to “Velcro their own political fate” to Trump’s and won’t pursue allegations against the president of their own party unless forced to do so by a 2018 midterm election debacle or further revelations.

On Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich chimed in.