President Donald Trump stirred controversy on Saturday by posting a video on Truth Social that highlights a series of “mysterious deaths” allegedly connected to former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Accompanying the video, Trump wrote: “The Video Hillary Clinton Does Not Want You to See.” The clip details several deaths and suicides involving individuals who were close to or associated with the Clintons, fueling long-standing public speculation.
Among those referenced in the video are high-profile figures such as John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, former White House Counsel Vince Foster, and former White House intern Mary Mahoney.
John F. Kennedy Jr., who was widely regarded as a potential political rival to Hillary Clinton for a New York Senate seat, tragically died in a plane crash in July 1999.
Mary Mahoney, a former White House intern during the Clinton administration and considered by some to be a potential key witness during the impeachment proceedings, was fatally shot during a robbery at a Starbucks in Washington, D.C., in July 1997.
The video also covers the death of Vince Foster, who was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, in July 1993. His death was ruled an apparent suicide.
In 1998, James McDougal, a key witness in the Whitewater land scandal and former associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton, died of cardiac arrest while serving a prison sentence, just before he was scheduled to testify.
Former Clinton White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib was found dead in 2015 after what authorities described as an accidental drowning while hiking in Taos, New Mexico.
In July 2016, DNC staffer Seth Rich was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., sparking conspiracy theories suggesting he leaked emails to WikiLeaks that damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The following month, Shawn Lucas, a Bernie Sanders supporter who had filed a lawsuit against the DNC alleging the primary was rigged in Clinton’s favor, was found dead in his home.
For years, rumors about the so-called “Clinton body count” have circulated, suggesting suspicious circumstances around deaths of individuals linked to the Clintons. However, no credible evidence has ever been produced in a court of law implicating the Clintons in any wrongdoing related to these fatalities.
The fact that the video was shared by President Trump—a longtime political rival of Hillary Clinton—added to the story’s prominence.
Fact-checkers like Snopes have addressed the “Clinton body count” conspiracy theory since the late 1990s. In 1998, Snopes noted that multiple investigations by respected news organizations found no evidence to support the claims, describing the theory as “an oddball conspiracy rumor.”
The hashtag #ClintonBodyCount notably trended again after the reported suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while in jail custody, prompting Democrats and Clinton allies to criticize Twitter for allowing the conspiracy theory to gain traction, as reported by Newsweek.
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