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The following month, in August 2016, Shawn Lucas—a Bernie Sanders supporter who served a lawsuit against the DNC alleging it had rigged the primary process in Clinton’s favor—was found dead in his home.
But the fact that the video clip was posted by the current president and a long-time rival of Hillary Clinton was noteworthy.
Snopes began covering the ‘Clinton body count’ conspiracy theory before the turn of the 21st century, writing in 1998, “Since 1994, various respected news outlets have been confronted with versions of the ‘Clinton Body Count’ list, run their own investigations of a few of the claims, and found nothing to substantiate what they looked into. Those investigations would culminate in yet another story about an oddball conspiracy rumor.”
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