They were. The trumpster gave them a party in the Oval Office. The best coverage is in the Russain paper TASS. They were the only news source allowed to attend the party.the "hackers" whether they were Russian, wikileaks, or someone else, exposed corruption, cheating, and lying within the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and the media.
The public had a right to that information, information that would have made Hillary easy to blackmail by both domestic and foreign interests.
The hackers and wikileaks should be rewarded for exposing the truth.