Newsweek reports:
Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally using campaign funds for personal expenses on Thursday and blamed his wife Margaret Hunter, saying she handled his finances. “She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did that’ll be looked at too, I’m sure,” Hunter told Fox News on Thursday. “But I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally.”
“My campaign did make mistakes. There was money spent on things not by me but by the campaign, and I paid that back before my last election,” he added, explaining that Margaret had been handling his finances since he gave her power of attorney when he went to Iraq in 2003.
“I’m not going to resign with a bunch of leftist government folks throwing allegations at me,” he said. “There’s a trial. This means nothing. The indictment is all they have. They only have what you have now seen. That’s it. I’ve done nothing wrong.”
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances https://t.co/3OInykXRAP pic.twitter.com/ykm9a7zgVH
— CNN (@CNN) August 24, 2018
Duncan Hunter blames his wife for campaign spending and complains it’s ‘difficult’ to live on salary in Fox News interviewhttps://t.co/O7CgJ8CrfB
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 23, 2018
Rep. Duncan Hunter: "What they’ve done, what I’ve seen that they’ve done too is edit some of these text messages & make them look different than they are. I can’t pull down text messages from 5 years ago." pic.twitter.com/B4LEEOIprl
— David Choi (@choibboy) August 23, 2018