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Wikileaks & Fox Silent On Mueller-Debunked Conspiracy Theory That Seth Rich Was DNC Leaker

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 4: Mary Rich, the mother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, gives a press conference in Bloomingdale on August 1, 2016. Seth Rich was gunned down in the DC neighborhood a month ago and the Rich's... WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 4: Mary Rich, the mother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, gives a press conference in Bloomingdale on August 1, 2016. Seth Rich was gunned down in the DC neighborhood a month ago and the Rich's were imploring people for any information they may have about his killer. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS

April 23, 2019 5:22 p.m.

Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer who was posthumously made the center of a right-wing theory that he’d been Wikileaks’ source for stolen Democratic emails, made a brief appearance in special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report — under the heading “WikiLeaks Statements Dissembling About the Source of Stolen Materials.”

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