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YIKES: White House Officials Duped By ‘Lazy Anarchist’

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Well, that could’ve gone a lot worse than it did. A self-described “lazy anarchist” and “email prankster,” who has caused some trouble before with Wall Streeters, decided to see if he could get some of the Trump administration to fall for a few fake emails. He did — and CNN enthusiastically helped him to make sure the world knew about it.

On Monday, CNN provided the details of the elaborate email prank carried out by the UK-based “email prankster” who tweets under the name @SINON_REBORN, a “lazy anarchist” who insists that “everything” he posts “is 100% real.”

Not only did the prankster appear to have gotten newly hired and fired White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci to make some more unfortunate comments about his now-former fellow staffers, but Eric Trump, Jon Huntsman Jr., and Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert were also duped, the latter providing his personal email in one response.

Though the prankster could have tried to get truly damaging information from the officials, he told CNN, “I try and keep it on the humorous side of things. I’m not trying to get the keys to the vault or anything like that.”

In an email to Bossert sent from a fake Jared Kushner Outlook account, which CNN reviewed, @SINON REBORN invited him to a fake “soirée” — a fake invitation that got a real personal email address out of the Homeland Security official.

“Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August,” wrote fake Kushner. “It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparable (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening.”

“Thanks, Jared,” replied Bossert. “With a promise like that, I can’t refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is” (redacted).

The prankster also hit Huntsman by pretending to be Eric Trump. In response to fake Eric’s congratulations on being designated as the Ambassador to Russia, Hunstman responded, “Thanks for the thoughtful note. Russia will be a challenging but no doubt rewarding assignment.”

“Maybe we could have Dad sat (sic) on a horse, top off, giving the full Putin! He’s in better shape than his suits suggest,” joked fake Eric.

SINON REBORN also hit the real Eric, but CNN says Trump’s son quickly figured out it was a hoax, eventually responding, “I have sent this to law enforcement who will handle from here.”

The prankster told CNN he was never contacted by anyone over the prank.

By far the most embarrassing of all the successful phishing attempts targeted the now-ousted Scaramucci. Daily Wire‘s Joseph Curl provides more details here, but the big takeaway is that “The Mooch” clearly believes that former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus betrayed the administration somehow.

In an email sent Saturday, fake Priebus decried his own “diabolical” ouster and accused Scaramucci of being “breathtakingly hypocritical” and classless.

“You know what you did,” the Mooch replied. “We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A man would apologize.”

“I can’t believe you are questioning my ethics!” wrote fake Priebus. “The so called ‘Mooch’, who can’t even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for.”

Scaramucci responded with a Shakespearean reference suggesting Priebus is paranoid.

“Read Shakespeare,” he wrote. “Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me.”

Scaramucci also fell for a fake email from Huntsman which managed to get him to once again condemn Priebus and Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

“Who’s (sic) head should roll first?” wrote fake Huntsman in an email sent Friday. “Maybe I can help things along somewhat.”

“Both of them,” he responded in reference to Priebus and Bannon.

Bad enough, but had the “email prankster” been a little less “lazy,” he could have wreaked some real anarchy.

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