An hour ago, Sean Hannity — the most popular personality on Fox News — tweeted this:

Wow. PLEASE READ ASAP https://t.co/wAmkwQkMMs

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017

#SethRich was a hero#SethRich changed history#SethRich exposed the corrupt
Here is my statement > https://t.co/ODCOqaA6Q1

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 23, 2017

If you go to Kim.com, you’ll see what appears to be a man trying to sell his EDM album and a book before a statement suggesting that the “proof” that he has that Seth Rich was involved with the DNC hack is that a man nicknamed Panda once reached out to him, and that Seth Rich’s nickname is Panda.

DNC knows this is 1000% true. An important piece of information. Follow this closely! https://t.co/ageQdeXBU3

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017

His nickname was Panda #SethRich pic.twitter.com/R4JNmv6JYR

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) May 23, 2017

This seems to be the explosive evidence that Kim Dot Com has, proving the Seth Rich story to be true.

I think Sean Hannity may be losing it.

Anyway, about half an hour ago, Fox News released a statement retracting its Seth Rich story from last week.

On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.

This retraction comes just a few hours after Seth Rich’s brother reached out to Sean Hannity’s producer and pleaded with Hannity not to drag Seth Rich’s name through the mud and urged the network not to do the interview with Kim Dot Com.

NEW: Brother of Seth Rich pleads with @seanhannity to stop spreading conspiracy theory in letter to exec producer https://t.co/Z3VtVk2vRz pic.twitter.com/z0rphLWmXQ

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 23, 2017

So, we’re done here, right? All set, Fox News? Seth Rich’s brother reached out, Fox News retracted its story, so this insane conspiracy theory can finally be put to bed?

Sean Hannity, ten minutes ago (after the retraction):

Read Kim Dotcom and listen to democrats say over and over NO EVIDENCE of Collusion https://t.co/9ZhgpvtDkO https://t.co/hMouzXfzqE

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017

So, no, then? Hannity’s gone rogue.

The man is f**king mental.

@seanhannity Let's look at the website of a dumbfuck promoting a bad EDM album. This is like ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN made by toddlers.

— BenDavid Grabinski (@bdgrabinski) May 23, 2017

@seanhannity pic.twitter.com/50nuoI8hZU

— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) May 23, 2017

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