{"id":126645,"date":"2019-08-10T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126645"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:05:12","slug":"trump-links-the-clinton-crime-family-to-epstein-hit-with-retweet-of-plausible-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=126645","title":{"rendered":"Trump links the Clinton Crime Family to Epstein hit with retweet of plausible conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump retweets post promoting conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s death<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY RACHEL FRAZIN<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Saturday retweeted a post promoting a conspiracy theory about\u00a0<a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/person\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>&#8216;s death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/w_terrence\/status\/1160256105399967744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The tweet<\/a>, by Twitter user Terrence K. Williams,\u00a0blamed the death on former Secretary of State\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> and former President Clinton and does not provide evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet included the hashtags\u00a0#ClintonBodyCount and #ClintonCrimeFamily, as well as a photo of both the former president and former secretary of State. Conspiracy theories linking the death to both the Clinton and Trump himself trended Saturday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bill-clinton\" data-nid=\"188333\">Bill Clinton<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s spokesman Angel Ure\u00f1a responded by writing &#8220;Ridiculous, and of course not true \u2014 and Donald Trump knows it. Has he triggered the 25th Amendment yet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ridiculous, and of course not true \u2014 and Donald Trump knows it. Has he triggered the 25th Amendment yet? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pa8M8pAenr\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pa8M8pAenr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Angel Ure\u00f1a (@angelurena) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/angelurena\/status\/1160340265707679744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Hill has attempted to reach the White House and Hillary Clinton for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Officials on Saturday said that Epstein, who had been\u00a0indicted on\u00a0sex-trafficking charges,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/456943-epstein-dies-by-apparent-suicide-in-jail-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died overnight by an apparent suicide<\/a>\u00a0while in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein, a registered sex offender, was arrested last month and was awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>He has been linked to both Trump and Bill Clinton, but both have denied wrongdoing in their meetings with the\u00a0financier.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/456979-trump-retweets-post-promoting-conspiracy-theory-about-jeffrey\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/456979-trump-retweets-post-promoting-conspiracy-theory-about-jeffrey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump retweets post promoting conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}