Absurd, Assange will reveal nothing about Seth Rich because there is nothing to reveal. You've fallen for yet more bat shit conspiracy theories. Your description of events is laughable.
And your poor reading comprehension skills let you down again.
"... and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House."
You have no idea what Assange told Manafort, but Mueller knows.
And your poor reading comprehension skills let you down again.
"... and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House."
You have no idea what Assange told Manafort, but Mueller knows.
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Debunking
The conspiracy theories have been debunked by law enforcement,[3][4] as well as by fact-checking websites like PolitiFact.com,[4][7] Snopes.com,[8] and FactCheck.org.[3][not in citation given]
The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia described the murder as related to a bungled attempted robbery,[3] and said "the assertions put forward by Mr. Wheeler are unfounded."[3] The FBI told PolitiFact.com that the MPD was investigating the homicide.[7]
Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said the police had no information suggesting a connection between Rich's death and data obtained by WikiLeaks.[27]
People who worked with Rich said he was not an expert computer hacker helping to leak information to foreigners. Andrew Therriault, a data scientist who had mentored Rich, said although he had recently been working as a programmer, this "wasn't his background", and another co-worker said Rich was very upset when he heard hackers associated with Russian intelligence services had broken into the DNC computers and could be interfering with the election.[41]
Rich family representative, Brad Bauman, responding to the conspiracy theorists' claim that the FBI was investigating the case said, "The FBI is not now and has never been a party to this investigation."[3]
FactCheck.org analyzed statements by Newt Gingrich related to the conspiracy theory, where Gingrich said Rich "apparently was assassinated" subsequent to "having given WikiLeaks something like … 53,000 [DNC] emails and 17,000 attachments".[3] FactCheck.org determined this claim was "unsupported" and determined "there's no evidence for his claim."[3]
PolitiFact.com said the assertion that Rich gave emails to WikiLeaks is a "baseless claim", concluding "Gingrich and others are talking about an unfounded conspiracy theory as if it's a matter of fact. It is far from it. We rate his claim Pants on Fire."[4]
In a separate analysis, PolitiFact.com concluded: "There's no evidence there's any link between Rich and WikiLeaks. The FBI has indirectly denied investigating the case, which Washington police consider a robbery gone wrong."[7]
Snopes.com looked into the matter and stated: "We were able to confirm the FBI is not investigating Rich's murder — it is an MPD investigation." Snopes contacted a spokesman for the Washington, D.C. mayor's office, who said, "All claims made by Mr. Wheeler are false and take fake news to a whole new level.
The family deserves better and everyday MPD continues to work diligently to solve this case."[8] Snopes rated the claim "DNC staffer Seth Rich sent 'thousands of leaked e-mails' to WikiLeaks before he was murdered" as "False".[8]
The fabrications were described as fake news and falsehoods by The New York Times.[9] The New York Times cited the conspiracy theories as an example of the persistence of false claims, concluding: "fake news dies hard".[9] The Los Angeles Times called the conspiracy theories "unsubstantiated rumors".[10]
The Washington Post cited the conspiracy theories as an example of the power of fake news to spread virally online.[11] The paper used the example as a case study of the persistence of fake news, and found that television news media can be a soft target for such false stories.[11]
The Washington Post further found that the proliferation of fake news via Facebook had decreased, but remained powerful on Twitter due to spread via online bots.[11] They found that the conspiracy theories with the largest potential to spread on the Internet were those that held attraction for both the alt-right movements and the political left wing.[11]
The Washington Post concluded that even if a particular false story had been sufficiently debunked, such fact-checking was unable to stop the spread of the falsehoods online.[11]
