Hacker Kim Dotcom Joins Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorists

Russian intelligence planted seth rich story

Seth Rich Image by Linkedin

By Nathan Guttman May 22, 2017

Seth Rich conspiracy theorists have found a new ally.

Kim Dotcom, a gamer and hacker wanted in the United States for massive copyright infringements, says he intends to publish information proving the claim that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of Wikileaks email leak which exposed the inner-dealings of the Democratic Party and hampered Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

“I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the @Wikileaks source. I was involved,” Kim Dotcom, who is now living in New Zealand, tweeted. He promised to make a statement on Tuesday after consulting with his legal team.

Immediately responding was Fox News star Sean Hannity, who has been the loudest promoter of Seth Rich conspiracy theories in mainstream media. Hannity tweeted back at the hacker, issuing a “public invitation Kim Dotcom to be a guest on radio and TV,” and adding: “#GameChanger Buckle up destroy Trump media. Sheep that u all are!!!”

Kim Dotcom has yet to accept Hannity’s invitation.

Rich’s parents, investigators and sources close to the police and the FBI have all dispelled the claims that Rich’s death had to do with his work at the DNC or with claims that he was behind the party’s email leak.

Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected] or on Twitter @nathanguttman

Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The Forward is free to read, but it isn’t free to produce

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward.

Now more than ever, American Jews need independent news they can trust, with reporting driven by truth, not ideology. We serve you, not any ideological agenda.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.

Readers like you make it all possible. We’ve started our Passover Fundraising Drive, and we need 1,800 readers like you to step up to support the Forward by April 21. Members of the Forward board are even matching the first 1,000 gifts, up to $70,000.

This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism, because every dollar goes twice as far.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO