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Baseless Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Theory

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A viral meme has revived an old, baseless conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton is linked to the Oklahoma City bombing.


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An old conspiracy theory from the 1990s has gotten a 21st Century update — it’s now spreading on Facebook as a meme.

The theory suggests that then-first lady Hillary Clinton In all, 168 people died after anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh detonated a homemade bomb that was inside of a rented truck that he parked outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

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