Who Is ‘Mike Erickson’? Trump, Son Received E-mail Offering WikiLeaks Decryption Key

Update:

Apparently, CNN forgot a “1” in front of the date. The e-mail was sent on September 14 not September 4, which is significant for the reasons mentioned in our post published earlier.

Here’s WaPo:

A 2016 email sent to candidate Donald Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.

The email – sent the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2016 – noted that “Wikileaks has uploaded another (huge 678 mb) archive of files from the DNC” and included a link and a “decryption key,” according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post.

Fuck sake @CNN .. how do you get the date wrong on that Trump Jr. story?

— Heisenberg Report (@heisenbergrpt) December 8, 2017

CNN has published a CORRECTION and updated this story. Originally CNN said the email was dated Sept. 4, based on "accounts from two sources who had seen the email." CNN now has a copy of the email, and it's dated Sept. 14, not Sept. 4. https://t.co/EpvrB43jyU

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) December 8, 2017

Earlier Friday:

In another “how much evidence do you need?” moment, CNN reports that on September 4, 2016, someone called “Mike Erickson” sent an e-mail to Trump, Trump Jr., Trump Jr.’s personal assistant and some “other” people offering a decryption key and URL for hacked WikiLeaks documents.

https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/939147072179261441

Multiple sources described the e-mail to CNN and Trump Jr.’s attorney has apparently verified it.

It was surrendered to Congress by the Trump organization and do note the date: September 4. So that would be less than three weeks before this exchange began:

You’re also reminded that this comes amid heightened scrutiny of Jared Kushner whose attorney failed to turn over documents detailing email communications to Kushner regarding WikiLeaks. E-mails which Kushner then forwarded to another campaign official. Unfortunately for Jared, Congress has those e-mails, even though he didn’t know it. More on that here.

Congressional investigators asked Trump Jr. about the e-mail from “Mike” during closed-door testimony this week and the President’s son reportedly took a page out of Jeff Sessions’ book, telling lawmakers he “didn’t remember” getting it. Obviously, that’s ridiculous. His attorney also swears Jr. has “no recollection” of it.

That closed-door testimony would be the same testimony that found Trump Jr. asserting attorney-client privilege with regard to conversations he had with his father about the infamous Trump Tower meeting, even though neither of them are in fact lawyers. And yes, that too is just as absurd as it sounds.

And you know, this gets more egregious literally by the hour. This morning’s news about the WikiLeaks e-mail comes around 12 hours after CNN also reported that the British publicist who arranged the original Trump Tower meeting followed up with Dan Scavino, who was encouraged to convince Trump to set up a page on Russian social networking site VK. “Don and Paul are on board”, the mail reads,  a reference to Jr. and, you guessed it, Paul Manafort.

So you know, we would once again politely ask Americans who are still buying into the “witch hunt” narrative to wake the fuck up.