Here's the key context: “This behavior is of particular import given Trump’s frequent condemnations of Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, for having deleted more than 30,000 emails from a server she used during her time as secretary of state.”

In short, Eichenwald’s story suggests that Trump is a hypocrite. Previous articles by Eichenwald have chronicled potential conflicts of interest presented by Trump’s many overseas investments and alleged that the real estate mogul violated a U.S. embargo against Cuba.

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The reaction of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to the foreign investments story suggested that Eichenwald is well-known and much-loathed in the candidate’s orbit.

“He has zero credibility,” Lewandowski said of Eichenwald on CNN last month. Lewandowski went on to claim falsely that Eichenwald “refused to fact-check this story with the Trump Organization” (Trump's team actually declined to comment) and “has said that George W. Bush was directly involved with 9/11" (Eichenwald has said no such thing).

Lewandowski’s attack seemed mild compared to some of what Eichenwald has gotten from Trump supporters.

“Because I have written critically about Trump,” Eichenwald wrote this month, “I have received innumerable death threats, sometimes just general invocations that I should die, sometimes more specific threats that I should be shot or ‘lynched,’ as one Trump fan wrote. I have been called ‘kike,’ ‘Jew’ and ‘anti-American Zionist,’ even though I’m Episcopalian with a Jewish father (as if that makes a difference). I have received video cartoons that look like they are from Nazi Germany of hook-nosed men dressed in Jewish garb rubbing their hands greedily over piles of money. I have been told to go back where I came from, whatever that means.”

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In one particularly alarming incident, Eichenwald received a Twitter message from “Mike's Deplorable AF” that included a video featuring what he described as “some sort of strobe light, with flashing circles and images of Pepe flying toward the screen.” Eichenwald has epilepsy; the video was designed to trigger a seizure.

“Fortunately, since I was standing, I simply dropped my iPad to the ground the second I realized what Mike had done,” Eichenwald wrote. “It landed face down on the bathroom floor.”