Hannity now says he will no longer talk about Seth Rich

“I totally and completely understand how upset and how hard this is on this family, especially over the recent coverage of Seth’s death. I’ve been communicating with them. I got a very heartfelt note. I also sent them a heartfelt note back,” Hannity said on his show late Tuesday.

“Out of respect for the family’s wishes for now, I am not discussing this matter at this time. Let me explain this. There are so many issues here, not the least of which is the Democratic push of their Russian narrative, collusion, Trump, Trump-Russia narrative. The destroy-Trump media and Democrats, they have been pushing that tinfoil hat conspiracy with zero evidence,” Hannity added.

Hannity vowed to pick up the issue at a later date if appropriate.

In an op-ed published Tuesday evening, Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary, decried the politicizing of their son’s death. “We have seen no evidence, by any person at any time, that Seth’s murder had any connection to his job at the Democratic National Committee or his life in politics. Anyone who claims to have such evidence is either concealing it from us or lying,” Joel and Mary Rich wrote.

“We have seen no evidence, by any person at any time, that Seth’s murder had any connection to his job at the Democratic National Committee or his life in politics. Anyone who claims to have such evidence is either concealing it from us or lying,” Joel and Mary Rich wrote. “Still, conservative news outlets and commentators continue,

“Still, conservative news outlets and commentators continue, day after painful day, to peddle discredited conspiracy theories that Seth was killed after having provided WikiLeaks with emails from the DNC. Those theories, which some reporters have since retracted, are baseless, and they are unspeakably cruel,” the parents added.

Earlier Tuesday, Fox News retracted a story that Rich had been murdered after sharing 44,000 DNC emails with WikiLeaks.