 On 7 October 2016, an hour after the media had begun to dedicate wall-to-wall coverage of the revelation that Trump had bragged on video about sexually harassing women, WikiLeaks began to release emails hacked from the personal account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.CNN notes that due to extensive coverage of the Trump tapes, the leaks were an "afterthought" in news coverage.Podesta suggested that the emails were timed to deflect attention from the Trump tapes.