New information suggests that CNN’s recent report on the Trump campaign having early access to WikiLeaks’ trove of documents is inaccurate.
Earlier today, CNN said that Congressional investigators obtained an email that was sent last year to President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and other senior company officials. The email reportedly contained tools that would allow users to get an early look at the hacked information Wikileaks released during the last months of the 2016 election.
However, Washington Post reports that CNN got the email dates wrong, and the decryption key would’ve only led Trump officials to information that was already publicly available. CNN says the email was sent on September 4, though WaPo says it was sent on September 14, a day after the documents in question were released.