Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story
Source: NYT
The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.
Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.
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In Mr. Corallo’s account — which he provided contemporaneously to three colleagues who later gave it to The Times — he told both Mr. Trump and Ms. Hicks that the statement drafted aboard Air Force One would backfire because documents would eventually surface showing that the meeting had been set up for the Trump campaign to get political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians.
According to his account, Ms. Hicks responded that the emails “will never get out” because only a few people had access to them. Mr. Corallo, who worked as a Justice Department spokesman during the George W. Bush administration, told colleagues he was alarmed not only by what Ms. Hicks had said — either she was being naïve or was suggesting that the emails could be withheld from investigators — but also that she had said it in front of the president without a lawyer on the phone and that the conversation could not be protected by attorney-client privilege.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html
The Times contacted Corallo today about what those three colleagues had said, and he said he didn't dispute any of what they'd told the Times, though he wouldn't add to it.
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Corallo didn't quit his job until summer of 2017. He could do a lot of dirty work in the meantime, am I right?
Hope Hicks has already testified to Mueller once, he can get her back any time he hears something from Corallo (or Bannon) that doesn't jive with what she told him. These cheesy two-bit hucksters are all going down.
AT LEAST ONCE in his life!!? But yes, he was on the trump train and who knows whatall that can mean, really (nothing particularly beneficial, most likely, dammit)...as usual, we shall wait and see...
It was during their internal deliberations process likely triggered by something or someone cluing them in around that time ... that the meeting was about to be exposed publicly. I don't get the feeling that the convo was around June 2016.
Also ... sorry but pet peeve ... the word is JIBE 
It seems Corallo did resign immediately - within a day or two of hearing about it.
You're correct on "jibe" - thanks!
is my favorite time!
