The ongoing revelations into the Russiagate scandal continue to show the insanity of many of the narratives around the 2016 election. These revelations have brought back into the public consciousness various “conspiracy” theories about different events that took place. One event that deserves a closer look is the murder of Seth Rich. To date no one has been identified as a suspect in his killing.
There is no question about the basic facts of Seth Rich’s murder. In the early morning hours of July 10, 2016, Seth was walking home. Unknown assailants beat and then shot the 27-year-old DNC data analyst. Rich died in the hospital.
The official explanation was that this was a botched robbery. However, on the day after the shooting, Mary Rich, told local TV news that her son struggled with his attackers: “His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything….They took his life for literally no reason. They didn’t finish robbing him, they just took his life.”
The fact is that they did not rob him at all. The assailants took nothing, not his cellphone, not his wallet, not his watch.
Seth Rich was a Bernie Sanders supporter. Rich had landed the job as a data analyst at the DNC because it was customary for each major candidate to have some of their own people employed at the DNC during the primary campaign.
One of the many controversies surrounding the 2016 Democratic primary campaign had been the supposed hacking of the DNC and DCCC servers by “Russian actors.” The recent revelations by Tulsi Gabbard have collapsed that narrative.
A theory about Seth Rich’s murder was that he may have been the source for Julian Assange’s trove of emails that WikiLeaks was publishing at the time. As part of its final report, Team Mueller acknowledged that Assange had strongly suggested Rich was his source but dismissed Assange’s comments, claiming they were “designed to obscure the source of the materials that WikiLeaks was releasing.“ Assange has never publicly confirmed the source of the material WikiLeaks was publishing.
As Jack Cashill has noted, “This was nuts. Assange had far less reason to protect the Russians than Mueller did to indict them.” Cashill went on, “according to Mueller, Assange reportedly told a U.S. congressman that the DNC hack was an ‘inside job,’ and purported to have ‘physical proof’ that Russians did not give materials to Assange.”
Of course, Team Mueller never interviewed Assange. To do so might have undermined their carefully constructed narrative that “the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and dramatic fashion.” We now know that that narrative was an utter and complete fabrication.
What was this ‘physical proof’ that Assange referred to? Was it a thumb drive as many people have suggested? If so, who provided the thumb drive to WikiLeaks?
None of this proves who killed Seth Rich. However, at this point in time, Julian Assange is a far more credible source than any of the co-conspirators who framed PDJT back in 2016 -17. The Seth Rich murder deserves sunlight. A serious investigation could help to pierce the fog that has surrounded this case from the beginning. Who knows. Maybe finding his killers will shine sunlight on other things as well.
Let’s be reminded. There is no statute of limitations on murder.