An email sent to President
Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. before the 2016 election included a
decryption key for hacked documents that the website WikiLeaks had
already made public a day earlier.
The email obtained by The Associated Press on Friday disputes an earlier news report by CNN that Trump and his eldest son had received the information before the hacked data had been made public. In fact, the email was sent to Trump and his son on Sept. 14, 2016, the day after WikiLeaks had released the documents publicly on its website and Twitter account. CNN later corrected its report.
The email message was also sent to members of the Trump campaign and Trump's company, including lawyer Michael Cohen and an email address once used by Hope Hicks, a campaign communications aide who is now a senior aide in the White House.
"I hope this information help (sic) you," the email said, with the writer noting that the "huge" archive of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee was 678 megabytes. In a tweet the previous day, WikiLeaks had released 678.4 megabytes of DNC emails.
In an interview, Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization, said he gave the email to the House intelligence committee on Monday ahead of Trump Jr.'s closed-door interview with the panel. In the Wednesday interview, Trump Jr. told committee members that he doesn't remember ever seeing the email.
"We checked our records. Nobody ever responded. It was disregarded," Garten said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/email-sent-trumps-included-public-wikileaks-information-195830244--politics.html
The email obtained by The Associated Press on Friday disputes an earlier news report by CNN that Trump and his eldest son had received the information before the hacked data had been made public. In fact, the email was sent to Trump and his son on Sept. 14, 2016, the day after WikiLeaks had released the documents publicly on its website and Twitter account. CNN later corrected its report.
The email message was also sent to members of the Trump campaign and Trump's company, including lawyer Michael Cohen and an email address once used by Hope Hicks, a campaign communications aide who is now a senior aide in the White House.
"I hope this information help (sic) you," the email said, with the writer noting that the "huge" archive of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee was 678 megabytes. In a tweet the previous day, WikiLeaks had released 678.4 megabytes of DNC emails.
In an interview, Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization, said he gave the email to the House intelligence committee on Monday ahead of Trump Jr.'s closed-door interview with the panel. In the Wednesday interview, Trump Jr. told committee members that he doesn't remember ever seeing the email.
"We checked our records. Nobody ever responded. It was disregarded," Garten said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/email-sent-trumps-included-public-wikileaks-information-195830244--politics.html
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