theory at the center of a White House lawsuit
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WASHINGTON ― Reporter says a Russian state-owned news site he once
worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal
shooting of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.
who was the White House correspondent for Sputnik, first made
the allegations when he left the Russian outlet in May. However, his story is
newly relevant in light of a lawsuit filed this week that accused President Trump
and the White House of playing a role in a “fake news” story designed to advance
the same conspiracy theory.
started at Sputnik in January, just as Trump took office. He was the outlet’s
first reporter to work inside the West Wing. In a conversation with Yahoo
News on Wednesday, Feinberg alleged that Sputnik wanted him to bring up a
news article that’s at the center of the lawsuit in the White House press briefing room.