Posted on 09/07/2019 2:52:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
Eric Trump touched off a heated Twitter conversation about the US media on Friday, after he outed a Washington Post reporter who’d apparently been email-blasting Trump Organization employees, looking for whistleblowers.
The kerfuffle began when the president’s son somehow got a copy of an email reporter David Fahrenthold sent to a Trump employee, indicating how to reach him on encrypted apps and leak internal documents safely.
“If you ever want to get in touch with me, I’d be glad to talks ‘on background’, meaning I’d never use your name in any story, or tell anyone else that we spoke,” Fahrenthold wrote in the letter, according to the image Eric Trump published.
“All my contact information is below, including details for how to reach me on encrypted apps,” Fahrenthold added.
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“Off the record”, “on background”, “according to sources”, and similar phrases have become convenient cover for the use of fabrications. Any “journalist” using them should be assumed to be a liar and exposed as such.
Real reporters report.
Sounds like a good way to setup this reporter with false information. The media has been caught so many times in fake news, use this to set them up. The crazier the story you can convince them of, the better.
#24. Is this guy the spawn of the Texan politician Sissy Farenthold of old? She was a squishy leftist as I recall.
This guy, if one of her spawn, sounds just like her - a leftist prig and jellyfish.
Hope he enjoys being “outted”. About time the White House struck back at our media enemies.
Thanks for the photo. I figured that was the case.
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