Did Hillary Clinton’s Emails Include Evidence of Child Sex Trafficking?

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A viral Facebook post claims to show images that were found on the laptops of Hillary Clinton and Anthony Weiner. The post has been shared 6,700 times and viewed 1.3 million times, and it is part of the Pizzagate conspiracy, which claims that Clinton and other politicians and celebrities are involved in a child sex-trafficking ring. Warning to readers: Several of the images in the Facebook post are highly graphic.

The first image is of a girl with the caption: “This was found and [sic] Hillary Clinton email and She [sic] was 15 years old.” The girl in the image is Scarlett Keeling, a 15-year-old British tourist who was sexually assaulted and killed in India in February 2008. There is not the slightest bit of evidence to connect Clinton to the crime—a man named Samson D’Souza was convicted of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” in July 2019. Clinton’s email scandal was regarding her use of a private server as secretary of state, an office she didn’t assume until almost a year after Keeling was killed. The WikiLeaks’ archive of Clinton’s leaked emails goes from June 30, 2010 to August 12, 2014, and does not return any results for searches of “Scarlett Keeling” or any variations of her name or words associated with her case. There is no evidence that any of the other images the post purports are from Clinton emails either. 

Another image shows what appears to be a mutilated child, with a caption claiming that Clinton cut the girl’s face off. The picture is, in fact, the highly graphic cover of a 1997 heavy metal album titled “Verses of the Bleeding” by band Abnegation. The picture on Facebook has another caption, allegedly a quote from a New York Police Department chief:  “‘What’s in the emails is staggering and as a father, it turned my stomach,’ the NYPD Chief said. ‘There is not going to be any Houdini-like escape from what we found. We have copies of everything. We will ship them to WikiLeaks or I will personally hold my own press conference if it comes to that.’”

The quote from the “NYPD Chief” is from a 2016 article—accurately described in a Vox article as “transparently silly”—published by True Pundit, a website infamous for spreading misinformation and conspiracies. Despite the promise in the 2016 article, the emails supposedly proving Clinton engaged in a litany of crimes, including sex with minors, never surfaced.

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    Not Jonah Goldberg

    Seemingly the entire culture is one step away from the reptilians theory.

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    Tyler

    "The Frazzledrip conspiracy theory." What a world.

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  3. Nathan

    I am living in Hell this article had to be written

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  4. linda

    Who comes up with this stuff? Never a fan of Hillary but it is easy to just let it go at that and not smear her like this over such disgusting activities.

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    Victor Clairmont

    Oh god not pizzagate again!

    Though there is still the Bill Clinton allegedly on Epstein’s Island. Maybe that’s refueling the pizzagate rumors?

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    Pat Riot

    This, like Q-Anon, is a diversion from a much more dangerous conspiracy theory that is proliferated very explicitly by Trump, AG Barr, and the Republican party broadly: that mail-in ballots are fraudulent and the November election will be invalid.

    The former has captured the imaginations of a tiny fringe of people who believe in demon sperm et. al., and we've had whack jobs like that in our society since the beginning of time. (It's new that they are in openly in Congress though).

    Trump and the Republicans convincing millions of Americans the 2020 election was fraudulent, on the other hand, may well lead to levels of violence like we've never seen. Telling people their votes don't count (along with all of the other lies Fox News spreads about Democrats on a daily basis) is pure nihilism.

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      Richard Maxton

      Let's maybe wait until after the 2020 elections are over before we decide that millions of Americans have been convinced the 2020 election was fraudulent, yeah?

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    Richard Maxton

    It's sad that this clarification / fact check is needed, but that's the world we live in today.
    There are plenty of reasons why Clinton was a horrible candidate for President in 2016 (and plenty of reasons she was bad at her job as Sec. of State). We don't need farcical accusations like this on top of it.
    Thanks for the article, Alec.

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    1. David Mancke

      Why do you think she was a horrible candidate in 2016..?

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        Richard Maxton

        Why she was a horrible candidate for me? I don't agree with her take on most policy issues. I don't like her "above the rules" attitude. I don't like that the whole point of her candidacy was "it's her turn". Why? She wasn't a good Secretary of State; she's wasn't a particularly noteworthy Senator that I can remember (but I've never lived in NY so maybe she represented them well). I'm not fond of her trying to have it both ways during talks about leaving Iraq in 07 or 08. I don't like that she dismissed so many people as "deplorable" in '16. It was as bad a moment as when Obama talked about people "clinging to their guns and bibles".
        And yes, to head you off at the pass - Trump has plenty of those too. But you asked about Hilary.
        Now if you're asking why was she a horrible candidate for Democrats generally? I don't think she's ever shown herself to be an adept politician. She's a bad campaignerm as she proved in both '08 AND '16.
        Everyone can blame the FBI investigation of the emails and the Benghazi buzz all they want, but 2 facts as it pertains to that remain: (1) She ABSOLUTELY broke the rules with her server because (as I've already said) she thinks the rules don't apply to her (and yes, I know she's not the only one in gov't that thinks that). (2) If she had BOTHERED to visit part of her rustbelt "Blue Wall" she'd have won. That was a STUPID, arrogant mistake. Democrats WANTED Trump to be the Republican nominee because they just KNEW he'd be the easy out. Well they got what they wanted and she STILL couldn't pull if off.
        That's why she's a horrible candidate.

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          WKDawson

          Yeah, especially the apparent indifference toward the emails really irked me. Us regular folk working under a security clearance can have our behinds canned and be threatened legal action if we make so much as an absentminded mistake of taking something minor and insignificant home by accident. Most of that stuff wouldn't give away a remote clue, but rules are rules.

          Not even a half-hearted apology.

          I think you're right, she really was a dreadful campaigner. Perhaps she had always been rather "protected" under the cover of a skilled politician (i.e., Bill) so she was never really forced to connect seriously with a constituency. When I hear that "deplorable" line, I remember I almost could feel political capital go to the wind. It's the sort of idle mistake us regular folk can easily make in an uncircumspect moment, but that is one of the skill sets that is required for that kind of job.

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        2. linda

          My favorite when when she said she would have won exception for husbands wouldn't allow their wives to vote for her. jeesh

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  8. John Cheyney

    I'm not on the Socials, so someone help me out here. If the Facebook post was viewed 1.3million times but only shared 6700, wouldn't that mean it's actually not going anywhere? Unless I am wrong that means that only 0.5% of people who viewed it sent it on to someone else.

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    1. Daniel Ruth

      You were right the second time. It might appear on a page that you follow, so when scroll past the post it counts as a "view", but you don't have to share it to your own page ( which would allow your friends not following the page to see the post).

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