The White House says that Joe diGenova won’t join Trump’s legal team, and neither will Victoria Toensing.
The New York Times got the scoop:
President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.
“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”
But, Trump and his Ruddy buddy say there’s no chaos at the White House.
The upheaval on the legal team comes at a critical time for Mr. Trump. The president’s former lead lawyer, John Dowd, quit the team on Thursday, just as Mr. Trump is deciding whether to sit with Mr. Mueller for an interview.
It’s well-oiled machine! Trust us.
Anyway, Trump didn’t like the “chemistry” between himself and the two crazy kids:
The president met with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing, who are married, in recent days to discuss the possibility that they would join his legal team in the Mueller case. According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
And there’s also a conflict of interest because Toensing represents Mark Corallo who told investigators that he thought Hope Hicks might have been planning to obstruct justice. So. That’s a problem…
That’s too bad. It would have been very entertaining to have diGenova on the team given how prone to exaggeration he is. Like this:
The Trump legal team will not have diGenova on it, and the world is poorer for it.