Veteran newswoman Connie Chung described Hillary Clinton as having an “incredibly paranoid and cautious” relationship with the media, which she said is to the Democratic front-runner’s detriment.
“There’s that side of her I found that was so incredibly paranoid and cautious,” said Chung in an interview Friday on MSNBC. She recalled covering Clinton and one time approaching her at a political event.
“I simply said to her, ‘I’m tracking you’; meaning, I’m following whatever you’re going to do next. And she looked at me as if I said I’m stalking you,” said Chung, a former CBS “Evening News” anchor. “She’s one of those who doesn’t trust us, who doesn’t want to have anything to do with us.”
Chung contrasted Clinton to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who she said “despises” the news media but knows how to take advantage of it.
“The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us,” she said. “In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.”
