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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.
- The emails related to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, between several Russia-linked individuals and members of the Trump campaign, that is being heavily scrutinized by Mueller and congressional investigators.
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.
Corallo was contacted by the special counsel’s team last week for an interview, as Business Insider previously reported. The interview is set to take place sometime in the next two weeks. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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