It appears that now, even editors at Steve Bannon’s conservative website privately believe Donald Trump Jr. is guilty of colluding with the Russians — while defending him in print.

According to CNN, Breitbart London’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam is privately concerned about Donald Trump, Jr.’s emails.

“So like, this is straight up collusion, right?” Kassam wrote in a transcript of the company’s internal Slack channel obtained by CNN.

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The message of anxiety reportedly came in the minutes after Trump Jr. released the email chain setting up his meeting with a Russian lawyer poised to give him “dirt” on Hillary Clinton — a move that appeared to be an attempt to “get ahead” of a New York Times piece where he also disclosed the emails.

But Kassam denied he thought Trump Jr. was guilty.

“CNN took a tongue in cheek question, in a private context and setting, and isolated one line to make it look like a statement of fact or judgement,” he told The Daily Caller. “Frankly, it speaks to their penchant for fake news that they’d do this, and I’m flattered they place such a high value on my sardonic questions.”

Kassam wasn’t the only Breitbart employee who reacted to the news: senior editor Rebecca Mansour responded only with the word “wow,” while deputy politics editor Rebecca House simply wrote “???????” to voice her astonishment.