Thoughts and Prayers Pour In For Hillary Clinton

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President Donald Trump drew considerable attention on Saturday after sharing a video on Truth Social that highlights a series of alleged “mysterious deaths” connected to former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

In the post, Trump captioned the video with the headline, “The Video Hillary Clinton Does Not Want You to See.” The video proceeds to outline numerous deaths and suicides involving individuals who were reportedly close to or affiliated with the Clintons.

Among the cases cited in the video are several well-known figures whose deaths have long been the subject of public speculation, including John F. Kennedy Jr., DNC staffer Seth Rich, former White House Counsel Vince Foster, and former White House intern Mary Mahoney.

In July 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr.—who many believed might become a political challenger to Hillary Clinton in her bid for the U.S. Senate seat from New York—died in a plane crash.

Mary Mahoney, who served as a White House intern during the Clinton administration and was viewed by some as a potential witness during the impeachment proceedings, was shot and killed during an apparent robbery at a Starbucks in Washington, D.C., in July 1997.

The video also revisits the 1993 death of White House Counsel Vince Foster, whose body was found in Fort Marcy Park in Virginia. His death was officially ruled a suicide.

In another case, James McDougal—a former business partner of the Clintons and a key figure in the Whitewater scandal—died of cardiac arrest in 1998 while incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Worth, Texas. His death occurred shortly before he was expected to testify.

Former White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib, who served under President Clinton, was found dead in 2015. Authorities concluded he drowned accidentally after going missing during a hike in Taos, New Mexico. His body was recovered from a mountain drainage area.

In July 2016, DNC staffer Seth Rich was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while walking home from a bar. Speculation later surfaced suggesting that Rich might have been the source of leaked Democratic National Committee emails that were published by WikiLeaks and damaged Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The following month, in August 2016, Shawn Lucas—a Bernie Sanders supporter who had served the DNC with a lawsuit claiming it had unfairly favored Clinton in the primaries—was found dead in his residence.

For years, the so-called “Clinton body count” has circulated online, referring to a pattern of deaths considered suspicious by some due to the victims’ alleged ties to the Clintons. However, no formal evidence has ever been produced in a court of law linking the Clintons to any of these incidents.

What drew particular attention this time was that the video was shared directly by Trump, a political adversary of Hillary Clinton and a former president himself.

Snopes, the fact-checking website, has been addressing the “Clinton body count” conspiracy theory since before 2000. In a 1998 article, it wrote, “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.”

The hashtag #ClintonBodyCount last gained significant traction online following the reported suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while he was in custody at a New York City jail.

At that time, Democrats and allies of the Clintons sharply criticized Twitter for allowing the conspiracy theory to trend, according to reporting from *Newsweek*.