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(118,378 posts) Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:38 AM Aug 2017

rump fox and rich

Monday 7 August 2017 01.30 EDT
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by Martin Farrer

A lawsuit is threatening to embroil Donald Trump in one of the American hard-right’s favourite conspiracy theories: that the murder of Democratic party staffer Seth Rich was connected to the hack of DNC emails during last year’s presidential campaign. Fox News ran a story in May that blamed Rich for the hack and implied he had been murdered by Clinton acolytes as payback. Our chief reporter in the US, Ed Pilkington, has been sifting through the web of connections exposed by the legal action, which has been brought by a Washington DC detective who says Fox fabricated quotes from him to support the false story. The biggest bombshell is that the president was given advanced notice about the malicious story and allegedly pushed for its “immediate” publication in a week when he was besieged over his own connections to Russia.

Still with Trump, and senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway refused to say whether special counsel Robert Mueller was safe in his job. Pushed by ABC host George Stephanopoulos, she would only say that Trump was “not discussing” firing the former FBI chief from his ultra-sensitive role investigating links between Trump aides and Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/monday-briefing-trump-dragged-into-fake-news-scandal

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rump fox and rich (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP

The strange case struggle4progress Aug 2017 #1

Thank you! What about Butowski? Gabi Hayes Aug 2017 #2

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1. The strange case

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Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:42 AM

Aug 2017

Ed Pilkington
Monday 7 August 2017 01.09 EDT

In the early hours of Sunday 10 July 2016, Seth Rich, a 27-year-old digital campaigner with the Democratic National Committee, was walking home ... Seconds later, gunshots rang out. A minute after that, police arrived to find Rich lying on the ground just a block from his apartment .. with two bullet wounds in his back. He died in hospital a few hours later.

... it was only the beginning of .. the ruthless exploitation of his death for political purposes by the hard right, from Fox News, Breitbart, and Roger Stone to Newt Gingrich, along with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and the farther flung reaches of the internet.

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 Fox story .. wasn’t true ...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/07/seth-rich-trump-white-house-fox-news

Gabi Hayes

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2. Thank you! What about Butowski?

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:48 AM

Aug 2017

Can't open link

Thx

Saw him w/Cuomo and Velshi

AV completely let "his friend, EB, off the hook

I started a thread on it

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