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Yes they did.

Yet people (even here on HN) refuse to look at the evidence and pass around things like the Seth Rich conspiracy as facts[1].

The same thing happened here with the Comet Pizza conspiracy theory.

Facts don't matter, and they just act as ways to polarize people.

Edit: and see how the voting goes on this and the parent comment, and on the thread I linked. The battle for facts is lost, and partisanship is all that is left.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19997995