<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-content__header gmail-tonal__header" style="color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><div class="gmail-u-cf"><h1 class="gmail-content__headline" style="margin:0px;font-size:2.125rem;line-height:2.375rem;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400;padding:0.1875rem 0px 2.25rem">White House accidentally emails Trump-Ukraine talking points to Democrats</h1></div></div><div class="gmail-tonal__standfirst gmail-u-cf" style="color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><div class="gmail-content__standfirst" style="font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.25rem;font-family:"Guardian Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0.75rem;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;max-width:33.75rem;margin-left:0px"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem">It then sent another email requesting to ‘recall’ original message, but evidence suggests it may be too late</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem">Joan E Greve & Max Benwell</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/25/republican-ukraine-talking-points-email-accident-what-to-say">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/25/republican-ukraine-talking-points-email-accident-what-to-say</a>  <br></p><p style="text-align:center;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5rem"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">The White House just offered a painful reminder to always double-check the recipients before hitting “send” on that office email. Shortly after the release of an explosive memo showing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/25/ukraine-trump-meeting-impeachment-inquiry-whistleblower-conversation" class="gmail-u-underline" style="background:transparent;color:rgb(171,6,19);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:0.0625rem solid rgb(199,0,0);outline:0px;border-top-color:rgb(0,178,255);border-right-color:rgb(0,178,255);border-left-color:rgb(0,178,255)">Trump pressuring Ukraine</a> to investigate Joe Biden, the administration appeared to accidentally send its talking points on the scandal to House Democrats.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">The talking points encouraged the president’s political allies to argue that there was no direct quid pro quo conveyed in the memo and that the whistleblower complaint was handled “by the book”.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">“The case just shows another example of the ‘Deep State’, the media, and the Democrats in Congress damaging our national security by leaking confidential information,” they go on to say.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">After realizing the error, the White House sent another email to House Democrats, this time requesting to “recall” the original message.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">However, it was too late, and shortly after the mistake was made screenshots of the talking points quickly spread on social media, catching the interest of many, including Bernie Sanders: </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">While the Democratic party is yet to officially confirm whether they disregarded the email or not, the evidence suggests that it may now be too late.  <br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">-----------------------------------</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;font-family:"Guardian Text Egyptian Web",Georgia,serif;font-weight:400">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p></div></div></div>