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President Donald Trump’s legal team’s former spokesman, Mark Corallo, plans to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that a key White House aide may have sought to obstruct justice last year.
Corallo reportedly spoke to White House communications director Hope Hicks on a conference call with Trump last year, during which Corallo said Hicks may have hinted at concealing crucial emails that are relevant to the Russia probe.
Mark Corallo, the former spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team, plans to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that White House communications director Hope Hicks may have hinted at concealing crucial emails that were exchanged prior to Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting in June 2016 with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, The New York Times reported.
According to author Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” Corallo resigned because he believed that the president’s decision to craft a misleading statement on his son’s behalf in response to reports of the meeting could have represented obstruction of justice.
According to The Times’ report on Wednesday, Corallo plans to tell Mueller that Hicks said during a conference call last July with Corallo and Trump that the emails “Will never get out.” The call reportedly concerned Corallo for several reasons.
Hicks has long been one of Trump’s closest confidants, and The Washington Post reported last year that she was among several aides who urged Trump aboard Air Force One last summer to release a truthful statement about the purpose of the Russia meeting so that it would not have to be amended later.
“Even if Trump is not charged with a crime in connection to the statement, it could be useful to Mueller’s team to show Trump’s conduct to a jury that may be considering other charges” like obstruction of justice, a source told NBC News last year.