The White House accidentally emailed its Ukraine talking points to Nancy Pelosi

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Today's really not the best day for someone at the White House to be extremely bad at email.

In the aftermath of the memorandum showing President Trump pushing for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the White House was quick to shoot off an email of talking points in hopes of containing the damage.

The only problem? The email, featuring talking points allies were to use to combat arguments from House Democrats, was emailed to ... House Democrats. That includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), reports HuffPost's Jennifer Bendery.

Hmmm… The White House just sent its talking points on Ukraine to House Democrats.

Here are some screenshots, per source. pic.twitter.com/VvNAaqKP3D — Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) September 25, 2019

As screenshots of the entire pushback strategy — which includes arguing that Trump was simply "suggesting that allegations of an abuse of office" by Biden "merit looking into" — circulated on Twitter, the White House apparently attempted to "recall" the email, which should surely work like a charm. Referencing this bizarre email snafu, a source told The Washington Post's Jacqueline Alemany, "It really is stupid Watergate." Brendan Morrow

HandSack135 on September 25th, 2019 at 17:50 UTC »

This is what happens when...

You have massive staff turnover

You are getting only weak candidates

You are lead by an intellectually incompetent person

You are stressed beyond belief and your workplace is a zoo

You have 5 different official stories to keep track of

celtic1888 on September 25th, 2019 at 17:26 UTC »

Tori Symonds is now famous

Turns out the Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications does not know how email chains work

She also gets paid $155,000 a year by us tax payers to fuck up.

noscreamattheend on September 25th, 2019 at 16:42 UTC »

As screenshots of the entire pushback strategy — which includes arguing that Trump was simply "suggesting that allegations of an abuse of office" by Biden "merit looking into" — circulated on Twitter, the White House apparently attempted to "recall" the email, which should surely work like a charm. Referencing this bizarre email snafu, a source told The Washington Post's Jacqueline Alemany, "It really is stupid watergate."