Claim: Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn't the Russians."
Fact-check: Baseless claims that slain DNC staffer was WikiLeaks source
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Lauren Carroll
Date published: 2017-05-23T00:00:00