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DiGenova's hiring was announced on Monday by Jay Sekulow, counsel to the President. DiGenova, along with his wife and law partner, Victoria Toensing, had a Thursday meeting with the President, the sources said. Even so, diGenova's role, as well as that of Toensing who is also in discussions about joining the team, are in flux. One source said no one has been officially hired.
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But there is concern about conflicts for both diGenova and Toensing, according to two sources. The two run a small firm and there is a question if diGenova can reasonably claim a lack of conflict when his wife represents clients like Mark Corrallo, who has spoken to special counsel Robert Mueller's team about how the President and his team responded to the revelations regarding the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting that Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with a group of Russians.
Toensing also represents former Trump campaign national co-chair Sam Clovis, who has faced scrutiny for his connection to campaign foreign policy team member George Papadopoulos, two sources said. NBC News reported Clovis talked to the special counsel. Toensing has asked her clients to sign waivers regarding the conflicts, CNN is told by one person familiar with the matter, but that may not be sufficient to assuage the concerns.
"There is an ongoing process for conflict review," Sekulow said in a statement to CNN Friday.
DiGenova and Toensing declined to comment. The White House did not comment.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/23/politics/digenova-role-trump-legal-team/index.html
What is Trump trying to pull here?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
2. A state of ongoing change.
3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
4. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
5. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
sounds most accurate.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)There must be some real dirt in there.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But the state bar association might care about Joe and Victoria's conflicts of interest. Short of betting the client trust account money at the track, blowing off conflicts of interest is one of the fastest ways of getting your bar ticket pulled.
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)He understands very little to begin with. He just wants DiGenova because he advocates well on TV and says what he wants to hear. Anything else is just noise.
orangecrush
(19,581 posts)this is Trump trying to find out what DiGenova's clients have told Mueller.