The clashes between presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Spanish-language Univision television network began within days of Trump’s announcement last year that he was seeking the Republican nomination.
Now, a series of emails pirated from the Democratic National Committee and published in the past week by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks show that within days of Trump’s June 16, 2015, announcement of his candidacy, Univision’s chairman, Haim Saban, was urging the Clinton campaign to take a tougher stance on Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
Saban’s media involvement has been a sore subject for conservative commentators for years. A former musician who became a television producer, he’d been a major contributor to Democratic candidates since the 1990s. His Wikipedia profile describes him as a good friend of President Bill Clinton’s and says that he and his wife were frequent overnight guests at the White House during the Clinton administration.
Saban, who holds both American and Israeli citizenship, also weighed in with the campaign on matters related to Clinton’s platform on Israel.
— source mcclatchydc.com