Analysis: Ex-Trump aide details president’s alleged effort to cover up the Trump Tower meeting
President Trump, accompanied by then-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on Nov. 14, 2017. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 27 at 3:20 PM The general sense one gets from an interview that Mark Corallo gave to ABC News’s “The Investigation" podcast is that he thought President Trump and his team were in over their heads.
“When I was at the [Republican National Committee] during the 2000 campaign, you know, we had lawyers involved who understood, you know, what the bright lines were,” Corallo said of that outreach. “You know? Like we would have known if some, you know, some hostile foreign government approached us with dirt on the on the, on the opponent we would call the FBI, but we would have known that — they didn’t know that.
The Times reached out to the White House in early July, while Trump was traveling back from Europe. The newspaper first reported that the meeting had taken place, later revealing the email chain in which Trump Jr. embraces the help of the Russian government. “I was just very aware that without an attorney on the phone, there was no [attorney-client] privilege, not to mention the fact that there was no executive privilege, because I don’t work for the White House,” Corallo said. “They are creating risk unnecessarily.
Through her attorneys, Hicks has denied making this claim in the past. But Corallo suggests that she made the same claim to Mueller’s team.
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