Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., denied Thursday his presidential campaign was the unidentified GOP client that hired Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to conduct research into Donald Trump during the Republican primaries.
“As far as whether it was my campaign, it wasn’t and I’ll tell you why,” Rubio told CNN. “I was running for president. I was trying to win. If I had anything against Donald Trump that was relevant and credible and politically damaging, I would’ve used it. I didn’t have it.”
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee partly funded the research that led to the controversial “Trump dossier.” The initial report about Fusion said the research started at the request of an anonymous Republican, but no one has been able to identify who that was.
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