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Oh? So the murder has been solved? You know who wikileaks' source was?

There has been absolutely zero concrete evidence presented that indicates it was Seth Rich. I fail to see how this is anything more than a conspiracy theory being promoted by members of the right wing media in order to distract from the current political attacks against Trump at the expense of the family of a man who was senselessly murdered.

Julian Assange is offering a 100K reward for information about the murder. A PI hired by the Rich family has stated publicly the police were told to stand down and that sources available to Fox News told him Seth Rich had been communicating with wikileaks. Kim Dotcom -- well you can click the link at the top of the page yourself.

I understand this is all circumstantial evidence and hearsay, but I would like for you to explain which of these people are "members of the right wing media."

Basically you're telling me that all of these people are conspiring to distract from Trump conspiring with Russia. I'm pretty sure you have the conspiracy theories today.

>A PI hired by the Rich family has stated publicly the police were told to stand down and that sources available to Fox News told him Seth Rich had been communicating with wikileaks. Kim Dotcom

This has since been retracted by Fox since it wasn't true and was made up by the reporter and the PI.

Wheres the comment by Fox saying that the PI made this up? Their page last time I checked just had a sentence saying it did not meet their level of scrutiny or something along those lines.

This tweet is evidence (not proof, but evidence):

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

Truth will out eventually. We'll see.

I see it more as Assange distancing himself so that nobody later says he outed a WL source in case the allegations turn out true. If anything, the Nieuwsuur interview in August was more of a wink wink but still hardly qualifies as evidence.

Hardly?

Yes, hardly, because there is little chance that Assange is going to confirm this.

We don't even know for sure if he actually knows something or simply pushes for investigation of this murder solely because other leakers are worried that this conspiracy may possibly be real and that the same could happen to them.

Or because his room in the Ecuadorian embassy is too small and he would prefer to live in Moscow with Snowden /s

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