Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich fueled a conspiracy theory on Sunday that Democratic National Committee staff member Seth Rich was killed during the 2016 presidential campaign to hide how WikiLeaks obtained emails hacked from the Democratic Party.
“We have this very strange story now of this young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee, who apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments,” Gingrich said on “Fox and Friends,” according to the Washington Post.
“Nobody’s investigating that, and what does that tell you about what’s going on? Because it turns out, it wasn’t the Russians. It was this young guy who, I suspect, was disgusted by the corruption of the Democratic National Committee. He’s been killed, and apparently nothing serious has been done to investigate his murder.”
Here's Newt Gingrich pushing more damaging, false conspiracy theories about Seth Rich, says he was "assassinated" https://t.co/J9Q2asehm2 pic.twitter.com/N3Q7bS63ZQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 21, 2017
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Newt Gingrich fuels conspiracy theory about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich https://t.co/3l88bUyiYK pic.twitter.com/QpzbW0yzBn
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 21, 2017
On Fox, Gingrich says "nobody is investigating" how Seth Rich was "apparently assassinated."
Might be good Q for Callista in nom hearing.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 21, 2017
This would be news to the DC police. Also, "assassinated"? Nice to see Newt nakedly parroting Kremlin propaganda. https://t.co/DdXtARVfG2
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 21, 2017
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