In October, CNN severed ties with DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile, a former contributor, after she shared questions with the campaign of Hillary Clinton before a town hall debate. This development emerged after WikiLeaks published hacked emails that show Brazile sharing with the Clinton campaign a question that would be posed to Clinton before a debate in March.
“From time to time I get the questions in advance,” Brazile wrote in an email to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, and two other people.
And later, DNC research director Lauren Dillon on April 24 sent an email to other officials and staffers about Wolf Blitzer, the longtime CNN anchor. On April 24, in the same email thread, she wrote: “Wolf Blitzer is interviewing Trump on Tues ahead of his foreign policy address on Wed. Please send me thoughts by 10:30 AM tomorrow,” according to an email posted by WikiLeaks. She later said, on April 24: “CNN said the interview was canceled as of now but will keep the questions for the next one. Good to have for others as well.”
To this, CNN told Epoch Times that it is “completely unremarkable. We have similar communications with Republicans. When preparing for interviews we are regularly sent suggestions from rival campaigns and political parties.”
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