Seth Rich update Dec 17, 2020 Huddleston v FBI, FBI requests 3 more months after sitting on laptop over 4 years, Attorney Ty Clevenger update, No botched robbery
“And why is Fox News working so hard to kill this story? I wish I could say more “about Fox’s behind-the-scenes treachery and someday hopefully I will but rest assured that Malia Zimmerman’s May 17, 2017 story about Mr. Rich was fully vetted by senior Fox management. I repeatedly encouraged Fox’s attorneys to postpone settlement discussions with Seth Rich’s parents until I obtained the FBI records (my client, Ed Butowsky, was a co-defendant with Fox), but Fox was hellbent on settling the case in October / November. That’s around the time Rupert Murdoch publicly joined forces with Joe Biden. Fox had a very strong defense, yet it rolled over and played dead, settling the lawsuit and then firing Ms. Zimmerman. Sooner or later, the full story will come out, and it will be very ugly for Fox News and the Murdo
were included in the omnibus that he would he could see cutting in order to pay for what he says is a i can t get into the specifics of that at this point, but i can tell you that the continuation of building the wall is ongoing, and we re going to continue moving forward in that process. reporter: now, a note about vice president mike pence. he s in north dakota speaking to supporters tonight, and he brought up the idea of the wall, making a promise to these supporters saying we will build the wall completely. we will build it all, anderson. do we have any idea where this idea about the pentagon footing the bill came from? reporter: you get the sense that it is born out of frustration because the president didn t get what he wanted out of that omnibus spending bill. he threatened to veto it that same morning. we did hear from a source that the president has had some musings about exactly how to pay for the border wall. one other idea according to a source was having people
police say probably a robbery gone wrong. that didn t stop some trying to promote unfounded claims from trying to tie rich to dnc hacking. his brother aaron is now suing, accusing the washington times and others of acting with reckless disregard for the truth. his lawsuit comes weeks after his parents filed a separate lawsuit against fox news and others for their role in pushing the conspiracy theory, an effort in which one figure looms particularly large. gary tuchman tonight reports. another massive breaking news story. explosive developments in the mysterious murder of former dnc staffer seth rich. reporter: sean hannity of fox news hyping a conspiracy theory about the murder of a young man named seth rich. this issue is so big now that the entire russia collusion narrative is hanging by a thread. reporter: the conspiracy theory concocted by right wing commentators was this. the 26-year-old rich who worked for the democratic national committee had leaked dnc e-mails to wikil
article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed. after that statement was released online, hannity on his radio show made it clear he did not agree with the concept of backing down. i am not fox.com or foxnews.com. reporter: amid all this, seth rich s family released a statement. the amount of pain and anguish this has caused us is unbearable. with every conspiratorial flareup we are forced to relive seth s murder and a small piece of us dies as more of seth s memory is torn away from us. sean hannity later declared out of respect for the family s wishes for now, i am not discussing this matter at this time. reporter: in case hannity s fans thought he meant he would never mention it again, he threw them a bone. i am continuing the work that i promised to do every day for you and at the proper time, we shall continue and talk a lot more. reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. the lawsuit filed by seth
someone with ties to the dnc as retaliation. never mind that there was and is no evidence of that. sean hannity was happy to make it part of his tv and radio shows. is there any evidence that he might have been disgruntled at the treatment of bernie sanders and the unfairness and the fix was in to put hillary in that position and maybe he had evidence of that? reporter: again, there wasn t any evidence at all. it was all made up. seth rich was murdered, but evidence has always pointed towards a botched robbery according to d.c. police. despite that, hannity continued to fan the flames night after night. it took pressure from advertisers pulling their commercials from his show for fox to finally take action, releasing a statement regarding the original seth rich story published by its reporter malia zimmerman who is also being sued by seth rich s parents. the article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all reporting. upon appropriate r