Former Trump legal team spokesman reportedly quit because he believed statement...was obstruction
Source: Business Insider
A discussion aboard Air Force One last year about the response to reports of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting prompted a spokesman for President Donald Trump's legal team to quit, excerpts from an upcoming book on the Trump administration say.
The excerpts, published this week by several news organizations, from the journalist Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" say that the spokesman, Mark Corallo, told Wolff in private that he feared that the Air Force One meeting represented obstruction of justice.
The Washington Post reported last year that while aboard Air Force One on July 8 returning from the G-20 summit in Germany, Trump dictated a misleading statement about the meeting, in which his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and other campaign operatives met with and a Russian lawyer.
Trump Jr. said in his initial statement that they had primarily discussed child adoption programs, but emails he released days later showed he had agreed to the meeting after being promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-spokesman-quit-because-he-thought-air-force-one-meeting-was-obstruction-of-justice-2018-1
AND FROM ANOTHER REPORT:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/trump-spokesman-mark-corallo-left-over-obstruction-concerns-wolff-book-claims.html
"Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to even answer his phone," Wolff writes. "Later that week, Corallo, seeing no good outcome — and privately confiding that he believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice — quit."
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