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Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief: "So like, this is straight up collusion"
Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief @RaheemKassam in internal Breitbart Slack: "So like, this is straight up collusion"
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Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails
by Oliver Darcy @CNNMoney
Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of Breitbart London, reacted to the story of Donald Trump Jr.'s newly-released emails in a way that wouldn't typically be expected from someone at the far-right outfit, which is a reliable supporter of President Trump.
"So like, this is straight up collusion," he wrote in the news outlet's internal Slack, according to a transcript of the conversation obtained by CNN. "Right?"
Minutes before, Donald Trump Jr. had disclosed on Twitter an email exchange from June 2016 in which he'd agreed to meet with someone he'd been told was a "Russian government attorney" about "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton.
The text of the emails sent shockwaves through most newsrooms. At Breitbart, not everyone was on the same page.
Some staffers were seemingly left astonished. Writing in the company Slack, senior editor Rebecca Mansour reacted with only one word: "Wow." Amanda House, the outlet's deputy politics editor, wrote only, "???????"
More: http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/11/media/right-wing-media-donald-trump-jr-emails-russians/index.html
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