The Rich family detective, Rod Wheeler, originally suggested that Rich had been in touch with WikiLeaks. Unfortunately for those questioning the Russian hack story, aggressive reporters got out over their skis. While far from conclusive, there were three inalterable facts that kept minds open: 1) Rich’s wallet, phone, and $2,000 necklace were not taken 2) Assange strongly hinted that Rich was a source, while offering a reward, and adamantly stating that Russia was not a source and 3) the DNC refused to produce its server to the FBI for forensic examination, which would have shown conclusively whether this was an external hack or internal leak. Perhaps this wasn’t an external “hack” at all, but an internal leak, instigated either by Rich or an associate, and perhaps Rich was killed in retaliation. This claim gave birth to a natural response among commonsense conservatives and independents.
The seed was being planted for Trump-Russian collusion, a highly successful canard later swallowed whole by a credulous media.
To divert attention, the Clinton Campaign immediately blamed the release on Russian “ hacking ,” while connecting it to Donald Trump’s weakening of a Republican platform plank against Russian aggression in Ukraine. Defection of Sanders voters, she knew, could cost her the election. On July 22, 2016, a large cache of purloined DNC emails was published by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, embarrassing to the Clinton campaign because they showed the DNC had rigged the nomination in favor of Hillary and against Bernie Sanders, darling of the Progressive Left. The police quickly wrote off the killing as a bungled robbery. Here is some background: Rich, a 27-year-old DNC staffer, was murdered in the early morning hours of July 10, 2016, shot twice in the back. Unfortunately for the political Left, its handling of Rich’s murder over the years has kept its mysteries alive, such that they become ripe for reexamination.
The murder of Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich in July 2016 set off a frenzy of speculation, all related to the claim from Hillary Clinton’s presidential election campaign that WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of DNC emails was the result of Russian hacking.
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