In 1993, then-Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide in Virginia's Fort Marcy Park — at least, that's according to six separate investigations of the incident. The death of Foster, who was a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton's, has been fodder for years for conspiracy theorists positing the Clintons somehow had Foster killed because he possessed incriminating knowledge about the couple's affairs. Still, multiple official investigations ruled the death a suicide.
Of course, that didn't deter Donald Trump from calling the circumstances surrounding Foster's death "very fishy" in an interview with The Washington Post, which was published Monday. Trump has been ramping up his attacks on Hillary Clinton and her family in recent weeks as he pivots to the general election, and he has been forthright about his intent to use ad hominem attacks against her. But CNN's Jake Tapper took issue with Trump's repetition of a "fiction born of delusion and un-tethered to reality," calling Trump's comments "shameful." Watch Tapper's whole takedown, which aired Tuesday on his show The Lead, below. Kimberly Alters
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