Podesta: Wikileaks dumps done to divert Fox News's attention from 'Access Hollywood' tape
BY JOE CONCHA - 03/21/18 01:38 PM EDT
John Podesta said Wednesday that daily Wikileaks' dumps of his emails in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election were meant to "divert attention, at least to give the anchors on Fox News something to talk about other than the 'Access Hollywood' tape."
"The data from your e-mails, your e-mail dump came out only minutes after the 'Access Hollywood' [tape was released]," MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said to Podesta, who served as Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, during an on-set interview on Wednesday.
"Late on a Friday afternoon," replied Podesta. "And just to set the context, most of those Wikileaks dumps were early in the morning to drive the news cycle here in the U.S.," Mitchell said. "So this was unusual from the get-go and you guys noticed it right away."
"Oh, absolutely. And I think it was done to try to divert attention, at least to give the anchors on Fox News something to talk about other than the 'Access Hollywood' tape," Podesta argued.
"And I think that the question is whether there was coordination between the [Trump] campaign and Wikileaks, at least through intermediaries, about the timing of the release."
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