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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been accused of many murders of individuals working close to her. A recent fake news article suggested that Clintons assistant Johnston Wilson (J.W.) McGill died under mysterious circumstances. However, there are no concrete facts supporting the claim that McGill was found dead after suffering an apparent heart attack. Where did this fake news article originate?

In April 2017, the web site geopolitica.ru published the article claiming that McGill, an assistant for the former Secretary of State, had died under mysterious circumstances. You can read text from the fake story below.

Johnston Wilson McGill, 34, was pronounced dead on his couch by a private doctor after suffering an apparent heart attack. It has happened just days after being summoned to appear before Trey Gowdys congressional committee to testify about Hillary Clintons email server. McGill was one of Clintons aides. The death was reported hapanned [sic] at her home of natural causes.

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Does this whole thing seem a little bit odd to anyone else? It feels oddly like weve seen things like this happen before to people who could possibly incriminate Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, as the doctor who pronounced has an impeccable record and is an authorized coroner in new York, the findings will be accepted and entered into public record.

However, there is no truth to this rumor. Although the Geopolitica.ru story is currently being circulated on social media, this text originally appeared on The Last Line of Defense, an entertainment web site with a penchant for fake news. According to a disclaimer on the web site, all of its content is satirical.

The Resistance may include information from sources that may or may not be reliable and facts that dont necessarily exist. All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney. Pictures that represent actual people should be considered altered and not in any way real.

Although there is no truth to this rumor that did not stop conspiracy theorists from quickly starting to spread the claim that McGill was killed in an attempt to keep Clinton out of jail. Here are some examples of people sharing and discussing the fake news article about Clinton.

Besides the origin of the story with a known fake entertainment news site, there is no record of a Johnston Wilson McGill working on Clintons staff. Additionally, there are no genuine news reports about his alleged death.

Furthermore, Trey Gowdy concluded his investigation into the Benghazi email scandal in July 2016. Although this article does not include a date for the death of the fictional McGill, the web sites appear to have published the story in March and April of 2017, according to Snopes.

What did you think of the fake news about another murder at the hands of Clinton? Have you seen people sharing the story falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.

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