Eric Trump has seen a lot of shit in his life, but as of Friday at 4:03 p.m. ET, he can officially say he’d seen it all. That was shortly after he viewed an email sent to a Trump Organization employee by reporter David Fahrenthold that will forever change the way he looks at the world. Once a bright-eyed optimist who believed in the integrity of the press, Eric will never look at the media the same way again, after witnessing firsthand the dirty tactics employed by the fourth state.

What did the younger of the president’s adult sons see that so shook him to his very core? Was it blackmail? The offer of sex for information? The violation of source’s previously agreed upon anonymity? None of the above. Rather, it was something so much worse:

Yes, Eric Trump, 35, was scandalized to read an exceedingly polite email from a respected journalist engaging in basic reporting and best practices for source-building, i.e. offering the would-be source ways to get in touch with him. The horror! It’s the sort of thing from which a grown man may never recover. Eric, of course, is used to a very different kind of journalism, the sort in which people like Donald Trump invent fake personas and speak to reporters pretending to be other people, lie about basic facts to inflate their reputation, and coordinate with tabloids who pay for and suppress stories of alleged sexual affairs that would make them look bad. But this Fahrenthold business? Appalling.

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