New York Times writer Amy Chozick, who covered Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for the paper, said the reporters who covered John Podesta’s hacked emails are “on the wrong side of history.”
In a new interview with the Guardian promoting her book, Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, Chozick said she felt that Clinton hated her and expressed regret in covering the private emails belonging to Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.
“It’s dizzying to realize that without even knowing it, you’ve ended up on the wrong side of history,” Chozick said.
Podesta’s emails were released online by WikiLeaks in late 2016 ahead of Election Day. The U.S. intelligence committee said the security breach was executed by Russia hackers.
Chozick said today’s media had a big hand in Donald Trump winning the presidency.
“I don’t think Trump could have come to power without this media landscape,” she said. “Donald Trump knew how to capture our attention constantly.”
In a previous piece for the Times, Chozick said she thought that reporters who covered the emails had become “puppets” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
