Mark Corallo, a former spokesman for President Trump's legal team, has hired the husband-and-wife team of veteran DC attorneys Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova with the expectation he will be called to testify in the Russia investigation.
Corallo is expecting requests for interviews about his brief two-month stint inside Trump’s legal team. He was initially offered the job as White House communications director last May but instead opted to work for the president as the main spokesman for personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz.
That relationship ended in mid-July when Corallo resigned out of frustration with warring factions surrounding Trump and the lawyers assigned to the case—and also because of concern he didn’t have all the information about the case, POLITICO reported at the time.
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.
Corallo's name came up this week when Axios revealed Steve Bannon slipped up and shared with the House Intelligence Committee that he had discussed the June 9th meeting with three people: Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and Corallo. None of the four men works for the Administration anymore.
Corallo is a former George W. Bush Justice Department spokesman who served under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. He also was a spokesman for the House oversight panel that investigated Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
Former Trump spokesman named in Wolff book lawyers up (Politico)