“If I could understand just why Rich was murdered (and again, I truly believe he was killed outright) I would feel more comfortable with all this speculation”
I think DNC feared that he might go public with the fact that he was the Wikileaks source, and not the Russians.
Remember, the Wikileaks releases would have been a thousand times more credible and a thousand times more damaging to the Hillary Clinton campaign if it had been known that they came from Seth Rich, a whistleblower within the DNC, because then they could not be dismissed as Russian anti-Clinton propaganda.
The DNC wished to discredit the Wikileaks information by claiming it was a smear campaign by the Russians against Clinton. This ploy would not only discredit the Wikileaks information, but it would also serve to taint Trump by suggesting that he was colluding with the Russians, that he was overly friendly with our enemy, Putin, and imply that he had business dealings with Russia that would represent a conflict of interest. It would also serve to make Clinton appear stronger by suggesting the Russians were afraid of the prospect of her as POTUS.
Assange made it clear that Wikileaks would never divulge the real source, which gave the DNC cover to claim Russia was the source.
If Rich were to go public as the source it would have been devastating to the Clinton campaign. But why would he have gone public?
I think the fact that he leaked in the first place indicates that he must have been very angry at the DNC for sabataging Sanders. He wanted to bring them down. It must have been infuriating to stand by and watch the DNC and MSM spin their lies about Russia being the source, and watch the Wikileaks revelations being discredited as Russian propaganda.
There was only one way he could have proven that the source was not the Russians - he would have had to go public.
Was he angry enough enough to risk going public as the source? We will never know because he’s dead. But the DNC had everything invested in their cover story that the Wikileaks revelations were Russian propaganda, and therefore had a strong motive to silence him.
Bingo pass go collect whatever money is left in the Treasury.
It's all about replacing the tired DNC op that "Trump is tied to Putin and the Ruskies" vs. the real truth that the wikileaks source was Seth Rich. Rich was originally hired by the DNC to do just what he did discover computer fraud.He did and it got him killed.
Once that truth is established (and if our side does not do a better job of establishing that obvious truth we will deserve whatever we get,) that there is no Russian connection to Pres. Trump and the whole narrative/CIA op was designed solely to interrupt 2018 elections,kill off Trump's agenda and possible impeach Trump. Once that's out in the open we win they lose.
But if we can't manage that than we will lose the political event one more time.We have not yet figured out that everything the commie dems do is a political event designed to achieve a political goal as the Trump/pootie con is.