Assange is very careful to give the impression of confirming it while never actually doing it because he wants to fuel the fires.
>I don't see how it's smearing
You're saying he isn't trustworthy and that he is a criminal.
>he dead man's parents want the truth too, and not a coverup of their son's death:
That video was thanking people for supporting the gofundme campaign and has nothing to do with the conspiracy theories. This fact has been posted everywhere the video has for days now so given your obvious interest I can only assume that you're posting it knowing this.
His family have threatened to sue fox and his brother wrote quite the letter to Hannity asking him to stop.