Yes, “patently false”, i.e., who shoots a person in the back during a robbery, and then steals nothing, but had time to hover over the victim?
Actually, they did, and the NEWSWEEK article I read said that he could have been killed by a hired killer or a serial killer, however, Newsweek focused on the latter rather than the former.
And as I said earlier, the timing seems rather coincidental in that a DNC staffer was murdered days before a Wiki leak of incriminating emails from the DNC was made public.
I think the Russians had Seth Rich assassinated in an effort to cleanup after themselves. That would be consistent with the way they operate. People who are a threat to Putin have a tendency to die untimely deaths. It would look really bad if this guy got caught and then testified against the Russians. Now he’s dead, so nothing to fear there.
Remember, Putin is former KGB who wants power and wealth. He will stop at nothing to make Russia great again. In order to do that, he has to undermine the United States. So he launches a cyber attack on our election and orders his agents to hack into the emails of both campaigns. He releases the Clinton emails to undermine her chances during the election and holds onto those of the Trump campaign in order to blackmail him in the future.
Trump has a meeting with Putin at the G20 - what do they discuss?
We have no idea.
However, one thing is for certain, Congress took away Trump’s power to lift sanctions on Russia, so I can imagine the conversation going something like this…
“Donald, why do you keep hurting me like this? Remember when you were in trouble with money, Russia came to your rescue. Now you need to return the favor and lift those sanctions on Russia.” said Putin.
“I can’t do that,” Trump replies, “because Congress won’t let me”.
“Oh, that’s too bad. I would hate to see your family suffer. Try harder”.
Of course, Trump can’t lift the sanctions, so Putin then orders the operative he has planted in the White House to leak the confidential emails to the New York Times about the Trump campaign meeting with the Russian attorney in order to get dirt on Hillary. It’s just the tip of the iceberg on the information the Russians have collected against Trump, and more will continue to be “leaked” as long as Trump refuses to come clean to the American public about it all. Given Trump’s character, that is not likely to happen. Instead, he will fight it all the way and drag the GOP and his supporters further down the rat hole in their efforts to defend him.
Meanwhile, the United States has left a vacuum on the world stage that Russia will happily fill. Russia is great again!
