Yeah, it's kind of old news, but people still ebleiev in the Russia Hack bs stories, so here's KimDotCom in 2023 again, finally spills his beans with a little more clarity than before:
False claim 6: Dotcom claimed that he worked with Seth Rich.
Truth:
Seth Rich contacted me and offered information about the DNC. I rejected receiving the data personally and forwarded him to someone close to Wikileaks. That’s how Wikileaks got the DNC and Hillary Clinton leaks.False claim 7: The (DNC) hack and leak operation was conducted by Russian intelligence.
Truth: A forensic analysis of the leaked DNC data by former US intelligence officials proved that it wasn’t remotely transferred. The meta data shows that the files were transferred locally.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1649574074732154880and old Craig Murray statements he flew to DC to collect the USB stick of Data
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/former-british-ambassador-says-he-not-russia-is-the-dnc-leaker/and/or
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4034038/Ex-British-ambassador-WikiLeaks-operative-claims-Russia-did-NOT-provide-Clinton-emails-handed-D-C-park-intermediary-disgusted-Democratic-insiders.html ADD ON
a list of people who say Seth Rich is the DNC leaker.
Guccifer 2.0 via Robin Young
Kim Dotcom
Seymour Hersh (unconfirmed)
Rod Wheeler
Anonymous federal investigator who spoke to Fox News & OANN
Anonymous whistleblower via Lin Wood (May be same person)
James Lyons
Ed Butowsky
Ellen Ratner according to Ed Butowsky
Bill Binney
Mark Dougan aka BadVolf (unreliable)
Julian Assange strongly suggests but does not say so. As does his mother.
Two other people claim that they know first hand that the data came from a leaker, but do not mention the leaker's name.
Craig Murray
Ray McGovern
The claim by Kim Dotcom is old. Originally he said that "Seth" contacted him using an alias. ("Panda" something). Kim Dotcom infers that "Panda" and Seth Rich are the same person, but he may not have definite proof.
and then there's (boring I get)
This is all the information on Seth Rich and Kim Dotcom we have collected on the ACLOS site.
I knew Seth Rich. I know he was the Wikileaks source. I was involved, Kim Dotcom to Sean Hannity on twitter, May 20, 2017
On May 23, kim.com issues a statement (without specific URL) on his website which reads:
I know [that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak] because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich. Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and other technologies that the Internet Party may find helpful. I communicated with Panda on a number of topics including corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics. [...]
Dotcom would be willing to give details only to "the authorities" as his lawyers advised him, the statement continues.
On May 25, Dotcom releases an open letter to the Rich family asking them not to repeat allegations, whose preposterous nature he outlines to them, originating with the Washington Post of him having tried to hack Seth Rich's email account.
SETH RICH – A TALE OF TWEETS - May 28, 2017
Kim Dotcom Approaches Special Counsel, press release by Kim Dotcom, 30 May 2017
(says he has relevant information, does not provide details on information itself, only on his legal situation)
On the Consortium News Live show of September 20, 2019, Joe Lauria plays parts of an interview he did with Kim.com and discusses it with guest Bill Binney. The new information seems to be that after Kim communicated with "Panda" first over twitter and then encrypted messenger, including specifically about "Panda"'s work for the DNC and his frustration with their methods against Sanders, Kim decided that it was too hot for him to be involved with, given his own struggle against extradition to the US. He then brought "Panda" in contact with someone apparently from the hacker scene who had been working with wikileaks in the past, and from there the story developed without further involvement of Kim.com.