Activists who pushed Seth Rich conspiracy theory apologize and retract false claims

By Mica Soellner

Published January 14, 2021 10:59pm ET

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Activists who pushed Seth Rich conspiracy theory apologize and retract false claims — "Please cease using Seth as a political football in predetermined partisan narrative," Rich's family wrote in a statement released late Sunday. | (Screenshot)

Those who took part in pushing a conspiracy theory about late Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich have retracted their false claims and apologized to the 27-year-old’s family.

Ed Butowsky, a businessman who helped spread claims that Rich was involved with the leaked DNC emails in 2016 and was killed as a result of his intelligence on the matter, said in a now-deleted tweet obtained by the Daily Beast that he never had any “physical proof” when spreading the accusations.

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