Trump excoriates CNN for 'vicious and purposeful mistake'

President Trump attacked CNN Saturday over an error in a Friday report:

On Friday, CNN reported Donald Trump Jr. received an email that included an encryption key and link to a website with leaked emails on Sept. 4, 2016, when in reality he received it 10 days later, on Sept. 14. The leaked emails were published Sept. 13, so Trump Jr. did not have early access to their content, as CNN initially indicated.

The network said "there will not be disciplinary action in this case because the reporters followed CNN's editorial standards process" and did not intend to deceive.

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