REVEALED: How a 'slick talker' lobbyist boosted the false Seth Rich murder conspiracy — before getting shot himself
This is the third part in the Yahoo News “Conspiracyland” series. Read and listen to the first two parts here.
Burkman, an irrepressible Washington fixture for years, is among a number of quirky characters who seized on the Rich case, seeing it as a vehicle to promote their theories about dark conspiratorial figures embedded in the country’s law enforcement community determined to destroy Donald Trump by committing dastardly crimes.
The wild claims — promoted on Twitter and YouTube by Trump supporters like Jack Posobiec — eventually inspired an unemployed volunteer firefighter from North Carolina to burst into Comet Pizza, armed with an assault rifle, and fire a shot at a back door, intending to free the nonexistent children in the nonexistent basement.
At first the Rich family was receptive, grateful for any help they could get to find their son’s killers. But Burkman turned them off soon enough. At a joint press conference he had with the family on Nov. 16, 2016, Burkman at first falsely claimed he was there to “represent” the Rich family. Joel and Mary Rich say Burkman never represented them.
“Dude, are you serious?” Freed, the journalist, said he reacted when he saw Burkman’s press release announcing the antigay project. “Jack Burkman’s agenda is Jack Burkman. He’s a slick talker, and he is in an environment where if he throws out the craziest bait imaginable, he will get people to bite.”
“I know where you work,” says the actor playing Veselnitskaya, seated behind a desk with a Russian flag, as the Rich character walks into her office. “What do you have for us?”“Payment,” says Rich. He got a response — from an anonymous would-be whistleblower offering explosive internal FBI emails purportedly showing that then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had told his agents to doctor evidence presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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