The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:50 PM
Republican Consultant Aide Mike Caputo Details Destruction Of His Life By Mueller Team
In Caputo’s closing statement obtained by the Washington Examiner, he said the panel's investigation “forced” his family out of their home and “crushed” his children due to mounting legal costs associated with the inquiry.
"Today, I can’t possibly pay the attendant legal costs and live near my aging father, raising my kids where I grew up,” Caputo said. “Your investigation and others into the allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia are costing my family a great deal of money — more than $125,000 — and making a visceral impact on my children."
Caputo accused members of the Senate Intelligence Committee of working together and contributing to the “swamp" — a term often used by President Trump to describe the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.
[Also read: Trump goes after Russia investigation: 'A complete Witch Hunt!' ]
This point Caputo illustrated by arguing Daniel Jones, a former Senate Intelligence staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was one of two sources in a recent McClatchy report about Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen — a report that Cohen himself denies.