Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe problem, of course, is that there’s no real evidence for the notion. The police in Washington have theorized that a thief may have killed Mr. Rich in a botched robbery attempt. (Ed Butowsky, a Dallas businessman who criticized Hillary Clinton last year, acknowledged to CNN that he helped connect the investigator with the Rich family after initially denying it to NBC.) Advertisement Continue reading the main storyTuesday afternoon Sean Hannity, who had been perpetrating the Rich conspiracy theory on his nightly Fox News show, said on his radio program, “I am not Fox.com or FoxNews.com. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySo what is new is the speed of the internet and the especially fertile soil of our angry political divide.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2017 16:30 UTC