Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, with similar falsehoods, NBC News reports.
The rumors, which emerged from the fringes of the internet and can be traced to associates of former White House aide
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