Newly released email shows the Russia truthers knew full well who supplied Wikileaks. They kept blaming a murdered staffer, even after his parents begged them to stop.
Russian hackers weren’t the ones behind the theft of Democratic emails that upended the 2016 presidential race, conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi told his InfoWars fans last year. Instead, Corsi said, Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich had stolen the emails and was murdered in revenge for the heist.
But Corsi was lying. In an email to Trump confidante Roger Stone in 2016, Corsi acknowledged that in fact hackers were behind the email theft, according to newly released messages.
Despite that admission, both Corsi and Stone played key roles promoting the conspiracy theory about Rich. Stone became one of the first major figures in Trump’s orbit to suggest Rich was murdered over the emails, tweeting on August 10, 2016 that Rich had “ties to DNC heist.”
In 2017, after Rich’s parents begged right-wing media personalities to stop pushing conspiracy theories about their son, Corsi put the blame for the email theft on Rich in a three-part InfoWars series.
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Corsi’s theory helped fuel conspiracy theorists on the right who claim, without evidence, that Rich was murdered on the orders of Hillary Clinton. But emails from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia show that Corsi knew all along that Russian hackers gave the emails to WikiLeaks.
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Newly released email shows that Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi knew full well who supplied Wikileaks with stolen DNC emails. Yet they kept blaming murdered staffer Seth Rich, even after his parents begged them to stop https://t.co/P2o3cbomdo
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 29, 2018
Corsi, Jones and the rest of the conspiracy theory loons are among the lowest of the low. Pushing a lie about a dead man in defiance of his parents’ express wishes that they stop is the depths of cruelty. Maybe if we’re lucky, Corsi will end up in prison where he belongs.
At the rate things are going they may have to build an entire new wing onto a federal prison for Trump and his cronies.
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