UPDATED: Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents

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Last edited Sat Dec 9, 2017, 10:59 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Correction: This story has been corrected to say the date of the email was September 14, 2016, not September 4, 2016. The story also changed the headline and removed a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., who posted a message about WikiLeaks on September 4, 2016.

Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked WikiLeaks documents, according to an email provided to congressional investigators.
The September 14 email was sent during the final stretch of the 2016 presidential race.

CNN originally reported the email was released September 4 -- 10 days earlier -- based on accounts from two sources who had seen the email. The new details appear to show that the sender was relying on publicly available information. The new information indicates that the communication is less significant than CNN initially reported.

After this story was published, The Washington Post obtained a copy of the email Friday afternoon and reported that the email urged Trump and his campaign to download archives that WikiLeaks had made public a day earlier. The story suggested that the individual may simply have been trying to flag the campaign to already public documents.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/email-effort-give-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents/index.html?sr=twCNN120817email-effort-give-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents0808AMVODtop

[MelissaB]

1. Surprise!

Not.

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2. K&R...Thanks for posting

[PeacefulPeavey]

3. CNN got it wrong

Not sure how much it maters, but CNN had to correct their story. This changes the significance of this story, because it means that Son of Satan got the e-mail tip AFTER Wikileaks went public, not before. CNN, in their rush to be first, got it wrong. Dammit, the media has to be better than this!

Washington (CNN)Correction: This story has been corrected to say the date of the email was September 14, 2016, not September 4, 2016. The story also changed the headline and removed a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., who posted a message about WikiLeaks on September 4, 2016.

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[madville]

4. CNN royally botched this story

Some person emailed a Wikileaks link to members of the Trump team AFTER Wikileaks publicly released the documents. It's a non-story and makes CNN look incompetent. Speculation is that someone from the House committee that interviewed Don Jr. recently leaked the wrong date to CNN and then the Washington Post corrected CNN.

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5. Self Delete

[jeffreyi]

7. Honey trap. Sort of.