Newly Disclosed Emails Show Trump Campaign Received Emails From Wikileaks
Donald Trump, Trump Jr., and other campaign officials received email offer to gain access to Wikileaks hacked documents.
President Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization were offered access to hacked WikiLeaks documents during the 2016 presidential race.
According to a new CNN report, several people in the Trump campaign, including then-candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr., were offered a decryption key and web address to view the hacked documents.
The off from Wikileaks was made in an email which was given to congressional investigators looking into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
The revelation of new emails offering Wikileaks documents several weeks before those hacked documents began appearing online is yet another piece of evidence showing that the Trump campaign was regularly receiving communications and information from the Russian attack on the election.
The email, which was sent on September 4, 2016, came a few weeks before WikiLeaks and Trump Jr. began communicating via Twitter direct messages.
The email also reveals that the sender was able to obtain email addresses for Trump Jr., his personal assistant, as well as an address believed to be tied to the president.
Read the full CNN report here.
[image via CNN]
