With news that the confessed liar at the center of the Cochran ‘black vote buying’ pseudo-scandal now says he was paid to lie by Chris McDaniel’s campaign spokesman, Charles Johnson, incendiary right wing journalist, has stepped forward to defend his role in the caper. “It’s utter bullshit that anyone other than me paid Fielder for his text messages,” Johnson tells TPM.
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