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Leghorn21

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Wed Jan 31, 2018, 12:29 AM Jan 2018

Mr. Mueller seeks an interview with Mark Corallo

Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking an interview with Mark Corallo, the former spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, in what would be the first contact between the special counsel and a onetime member of the president’s personal legal team.

more:
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/mueller-seeks-interview-with-ex-spokesman-for-trumps-legal-team-1517363052?__twitter_impression=true

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In his book, “Fire and Fury” published earlier this month, author Michael Wolff reported that Corallo quit in part over Trump's role in crafting a statement for his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., regarding a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower the younger Trump attended to meet a Russian attorney promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.

The White House has offered shifting explanations as more detail has made clear the initial statement, crafted on Air Force One as Trump returned from a July trip to Europe—misleadingly said it mainly focused on the subject of Russia's adoption policy.

“Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to even answer the phone,” Wolff wrote. “Later that week, Corallo, seeing no good outcome—and privately confiding that he believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice—quit.”

more:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/19/mark-corallo-lawyer-trump-349544




Seems to me Mr. Corallo might know a good anecdote or two...

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Mr. Mueller seeks an interview with Mark Corallo (Original Post) Leghorn21 Jan 2018 OP
Uh-oh, knock knock knocking on trumpy's door. brush Jan 2018 #1
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