Paul fundraises off coordination between Clinton aide and CNN reporter
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Rand Paul quickly turned reports of a collaborative effort against him by CNN's Elise Labott and a former Hillary Clinton aide into a fundraising email, urging his supporters to not let the "media's shenanigans" silence his message of liberty.
A new batch of State Department emails released to the website Gawker on Tuesday reveal that Labott, CNN's Global Affairs Correspondent, and Philippe Reines, a senior adviser to Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, coordinated a series of tweets aimed at making Paul look bad for his line of questioning during a 2013 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Benghazi.
Emails show Labott also tweeted positive quotes from Clinton's testimony before the committee, per the instruction of Reines.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The truth is, I'm fed up with stories like this," Paul wrote to his supporters Wednesday.