BUFFALO, N.Y. — After separate meetings this week with staffers for the Senate Intelligence Committee and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, former Donald Trump campaign staffer Michael Caputo returned home to Western New York from Washington, D.C. Thursday afternoon.

"I would compare it to a colonoscopy and I would prefer a colonoscopy," he said. "I really don't want to go through this again.”

Caputo, who’s also appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, doesn’t think he’s done. His attorney is currently negotiating with Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee about another meeting.

"I just have to keep going back and repeating things over. It's like Groundhog Day except a lot more expensive," he said.

The political operative estimated his legal bills are currently about $125,000 and could continue to rise should he be called back again by one of the committees or special counsel or even a grand jury. At one point, he was preparing to sell his house to pay the bills, but he returned to some good news Thursday: a skyrocketing GoFundMe account now well above $100,000.

"We were starting to buy boxes, looking for ways to start sorting through our stuff. We really thought we were on our way out of town, but maybe we won't have to," he said.

Caputo said he’s humbled and relieved by the support but at the same time was admittedly shaken by his experience with special counsel. He said he wasn’t surprised by the questions and doesn’t believe investigators are close to proving collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016, but the interview was intimidating at times.

“They’ve got more, more proof of what went on on the Trump campaign than any of the committees do, so the questions they asked me, everything single one of them, they knew the answer to before they asked them," he said.

Reports emerged Thursday that federal agents were tracking the calls of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. The day before, current attorney Rudy Giuliani compared the FBI to stormtroopers and Caputo said the investigators he dealt with reminded him of the Soviet KGB.

“I’ve advised through the media and through intermediaries, I’ve advised the president not to do an interview with the special counsel. I think it’s fraught with peril," he said.