"This happened before any knowledge of any emails actually came out," McAuliffe said, who said the article drawing a line between his help for McCabe and the Clinton email probe was nothing but shoddy journalism, the "silly season" before Election Day.
McAuliffe's political action committee helped direct over $467,000 to McCabe for her campaign.
"We supported her...because she was a great candidate," McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe said if he wanted to have given Dr. McCabe a favor, he would have appointed her to a college board or something similar, and not subjected her to the rigors of a campaign.
But because of McAuliffe lengthy ties to the Clintons, he admitted all of this is getting extra election year attention.
"I mean, listen, I'm a big boy, I live in the Clinton Bat Cave along with everybody else," the Governor said.
Asked about this year's campaign for President, McAuliffe was very upbeat, predicting a big win for Clinton, and not publicly saying he was worried about a late bid for his state by Trump.
"I encourage him to spend all the money he can," the Governor said on WTOP Radio. "We are going to beat him in Virginia.
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