Eric Trump attacks the Washington Post for a standardized attempt to get a story

Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, has attempted to humiliate Washington Post reporter David Farenthold for sending a letter to the Trump Organization which, despite his decrying remarks, was in fact a standard journalistic procedure.

Friday, the president's son tweeted "These are the tactics used by @WashingtonPost @JeffBezos – you should be very proud …?" He also included a copy of a letter ostensibly written by Farenthold in which the journalist was offering Trump Organization members his contact information, proposing to talk to potential sources in the background and providing them with an encrypted link allowing them to send documents anonymously.

"Ummm, Eric, this is called journalism" Ahmed Baba, editor of Rantt Media, tweeted in response to the outrage supposedly expressed by the president's son.. "Speaking to sources on the bottom and anonymously searching for documents to expose corruption is normal, and I think you should learn to use this other cool feature called Google before tweeting."

Frank Figliuzzi, contributor to national security at NBC News, tweeted that sounds like "journalism for me." Are you concerned about what people are hiding about you?

Meanwhile historian and author Kevin M. Kruse tweeted "It's a shame that this polite and professional email does not meet your family's high standards for journalism" and includes a link to a Guardian article explaining how the Trump campaign worked with the National Enquirer to capture and kill unflattering stories about the future president.

This is not the first time Trump's children have embarked on what appears to be coordinated attacks on the media. It was recently revealed that Arthur Schwartz, an ally of Donald Trump Jr. and Steve Bannon, was a "central actor" in an organization that raised funds to search journalists whose work criticized the president in order to discredit their . Schwartz had previously been described by the Daily Beast as Trump Jr.'s "repairer." He has already drawn attention to anti-Semitic tweets from colleges published by a New York Times political editor, anti-Semitic tweets from the United States. a CNN photo editor and tweets from a CNN reporter. this included an anti-gay insult.

Eric Trump was often ridiculed on the basis of the perception that he was not very brilliant. In July, he told Fox and his friends that "my father is there and he fights every day, he has to fight against the media, he has to fight against those crazy people. I tell you, 95% of this country is behind him in this message, I mean, people like this country. "In 2017, after a sketch of the" Saturday Night Live ", he foresaw that he would make it clear to his father that his father was keeping an eye on his business empire, although it is ethically dubious to do so, Trump admitted to a media that the president keeps in touch with his son about "the results, the reports of profitability and things like that, but you know, that's about it. "

He then added, "My father and I are very close, I talk to him often, we are inseparable."