(In response to a lawsuit last year alleging that he was part of a smear campaign to discredit the Trump campaign, Halper claimed a kind of immunity ordinarily afforded to government agents.) "I had a longstanding relationship with Professor Halper," Page told host Maria Bartiromo. Professor Halper was being very positive, you know, like a Harriet Tubman figure. Given Professor Halper’s intelligence connections and government funding, it is reasonable to ask whether he used any taxpayer money in his attempt to recruit Trump campaign officials as sources." Wolking added: "Did Halper use taxpayer money to target the Trump campaign?"

Source: Fox News January 23, 2020 22:41 UTC