Michael Caputo told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday that "two or perhaps more" informants tried to access President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Caputo, a former Trump campaign associate who worked for President Ronald Reagan and late U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp in the past, said that individuals tried "to offer information to the campaign that would have jammed us up in some way shape or form," Fox News reported.
"These guys were going at us from all different angles," Caputo told Hannity.
The Daily Caller reported last week that Stefan Halper, a Cambridge University professor, was an alleged CIA and FBI source who informed on Trump campaign advisors during the heated 2016 presidential election.
The Daily Caller said Halper contacted Trump advisers Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis during the 2016 campaign. Trump charged that Halper was "implanted" on the campaign "for political purposes."
On Hannity, Caputo did not specify whether the "two or more" included Halper's efforts, Fox News said.
Caputo also chided Trump critics who complained about the president using the term "spy" to describe the controversy instead of the word "informant."
"Back here in Buffalo, you can call it elongated cylindrical semolina, but we still call it spaghetti," Caputo told Hannity.
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, called the FBI's use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 "appropriate" on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reported.
"I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump," Gowdy said during an interview.
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