Former Paul Staffer Explains Why He Recorded McConnell Aide

Former Paul Staffer Explains Why He Recorded McConnell Aide:

The former Ron Paul aide who secretly recorded a conversationwith Mitch McConnell campaign manager and former colleague Jesse Benton told BuzzFeed on Thursday that he recorded the phone call to protect himself and that he released it because Benton didn’t meet a six-month deadline to take care of an alleged bribery incident.

Asked why he had recorded a conversation that took place in January in which Benton says he is “holding his nose” until Rand Paul’s 2016 presidential bid, Dennis Fusaro, who now works at the Reform Theological Seminary, said “to protect myself when [Benton] would say I was lying.”

Fusaro called Benton to ask about an alleged bribe given to Iowa state senator Ken Sorensen by a former Paul campaign staffer in return for his endorsement. Fusaro had previously recorded a conversation with Sorensen in which Sorensen described taking the money.

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