See how White House officials were duped into chatting with a UK prankster

By Josh Siegel

Published August 1, 2017 2:48am ET

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See how White House officials were duped into chatting with a UK prankster — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. Increasing the use of cloud computing within the government and making its data more accessible to those outside of it were the goal of new teams announced during the call. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

An “email prankster” in the U.K. tricked various Trump administration officials into thinking he was other White House officials, according to a report Monday night.

In one episode, CNN reported, the prankster posed as Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and wrote to Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert, who revealed his personal email address unsolicited.

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