Juan Williams: When WikiLeaks leaked my cell number

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By Juan Williams - 10/24/16 06:00 AM EDT

My cell phone started ringing before dawn in Las Vegas last Wednesday.

At first, I thought frat boys had found my number and decided to prank me on the morning of the final debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The flood of anonymous calls began politely, checking to see if it was really me. Then they sank into rude and threatening language.

By 4 a.m., I figured out that a new batch of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, had been released, including a note I wrote to Podesta with my cell number. By dawn, I had new appreciation for the phrase “your cell phone is blowing up.” It literally did not stop ringing with phone calls, buzzing with text messages, chiming with new email.

The barrage of crude suggestions about me — “ignorant, alcoholic and token black on Fox that needs to go,” — was interspersed with cheerleading: “Trump Will Win,” “TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP…” and “Juan, you are a piece of … just wait till TRUMP wins by landslide.”

But there was one serious line of criticism of my journalism in the anonymous text messages. The Trump supporters took my email to Podesta as proof that I am a “liberal stooge,” who is guilty of “continued deceit.”

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http://thehill.com/opinion/juan-williams/302401-juan-williams-when-wikileaks-leaked-my-cell-number

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1. Hacking into --Peeping into private email is wrong no matter who does it.