Natalie DiBlasio

USA TODAY

"Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails," Donald Trump tweeted on Monday, a claim for which USA TODAY could find no evidence.

An Iranian scientist accused of providing information on his country's nuclear program to the U.S. has been executed for treason, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said Sunday. There is no evidence that the execution was related in any way to Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee email hacking.

The Twitterverse quickly jumped on Trump's tweet, using the GOP presidential nominee's indisputably vague qualifier "#ManyPeopleAreSaying" to claim everything from the moon landing being fake to that Trump stole the idea of the wall from Pink Floyd:

These are the facts we do have about Iran allegedly executing the nuclear scientist accused of providing information to the U.S.