Hacked: Editor suggested television ad for Hillary Clinton

Published October 12, 2016 5:51pm ET



The head of an emerging journalistic outfit owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. drafted the script for a potential television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to emails obtained from campaign chairman John Podesta and published by WikiLeaks.

“As you will know … I am a committed Republican (or would be if I had the vote this year),” British Heat Street editor Louise Mensch wrote in an email to Michael Kives, an ad writer and Hollywood bundler for Clinton. “But I worry no end about Donald Trump becoming our President … much rather have your girl Hillary.

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