WH pushed fake news story about Seth Rich's death to distract

>“The accusation that FoxNews.com published Malia Zimmerman’s story to help detract from coverage of the Russia collusion issue is completely erroneous," he said. "The retraction of this story is still being investigated internally and we have no evidence that Rod Wheeler was misquoted by Zimmerman."

>Mr Spicer told NPR he took the meeting as a favour to Mr Butowsky, and was not aware of any communication about it with the President. Mr Butowsky said he was joking about having the President’s ear.

>Mr Wheeler, however, does not find it a laughing matter. The longtime Fox News contributor and former police detective says he was intially hired by Mr Butowsky to investigate Mr Rich’s death, on behalf of the 27-year-old’s grieving parents. The Rich family later disavowed both men and the Fox News report as a whole.

>According to the suit, seen by The Independent, Mr Wheeler found little evidence to support any nefarious involvement by the DNC. Local police told him the shooting appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. The FBI told him they were not assisting local police in the investigation.

>But Mr Butowksy, after meeting with journalist Seymour Hersh, told Mr Wheeler he had a source within the FBI who could confirm that Mr Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks. (Mr Hersh has since dismissed these claims as “gossip”.)

>In a 14 May voicemail, he told the detective the case had the “full attention of the White House”.

>“Tomorrow, let’s close this deal, whatever we’ve got to do,” he said, according to the suit.

>Two days later, Ms Zimmerman published a story claiming there was evidence that Mr Rich had communicated with WikiLeaks. The story cited Mr Wheeler and an unnamed FBI source.

>According to the suit, the article contained several fabricated quotes from Mr Wheeler, including one in which he said: “My investigation shows someone within the DC government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward.”

>Mr Wallace said Fox News had "no evidence” that the quotes had been fabricated.

>Less than a week after its publication, the story dissolved. The DC police, DNC officials, and even Mr Rich’s parents all denounced it as false. Mr Wheeler walked back his comments.

>Fox News released a statement saying the article “was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting”.

>The network then pulled the story from their website, but not before Mr Butowsky allegedly texted Mr Wheeler to scold him.

>"One day you're going to win an award for having said those things you didn't say,” he said.

>>163492
>shilling propaganda this hard
>again

This was debunked yesterday. it will be debunked again. OP is complicit in a murder coverup.

>>163496
where? Not the OP but do you even have a source for your post?

>>163492

Blatant fake news by OP

>>163496
It has not been debunked, quite the opposite, it's been proven. The white house won't even deny it.

>>165353

Hello shill

The WH doesn't have to defend itself against every single piece of retarded fake news

>>163492
Article is 5 days old and has already been posted here >>163046

>>165354
They issued a statement about it saying they couldn't deny it though.

Murder in the first degree. That's what happens when you get caught trying to expose the enemy. End of story...