Hannity touts DNC murder conspiracy theory hours after story completely falls apart


Hours after NBC debunked Fox News’ much-hyped report that DNC staffer Seth Rich had been in communication with WikiLeaks at the time of his murder last July, Sean Hannity promoted the story to millions of Fox News viewers and suggested there’s evidence that prominent Democrats were involved in a murder conspiracy.

There isn’t. Hours before Hannity’s show aired, NBC reported that “a current FBI official and a former one completely discount the Fox News claim that an FBI analysis of a computer belonging to Rich contained thousands of e-mails to and from WikiLeaks.

”Rich’s family also denounced Fox News’ reporting, saying earlier Tuesday through a spokesman that “we’ve seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press.”


A DNC staffer was gunned down last year and the right-wing media takes the opportunity to create yet another fake news story to control the news narrative. They're claiming that the DNC had Rich killed because he was leaking information to Wikileaks.

Despite there being flimsy evidence and the family's insistence that the story is false, Hannity ran with it anyway.