In a new interview with the ABC News podcast “The Investigation,” Mark Corallo, a former spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s legal team, was deeply critical of the role Hope Hicks played in key events in the special counsel’s investigation.
Hicks, who served as Trump’s communications director before leaving the White House, was on Air Force One with the president when he issued a statement about his campaign meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian emissary promising to bring “dirt” on Hillary Clinton the summer before the 2016 election. In that statement, Trump had omitted the fact that the Russians had offered any help with the campaign — a key revelation as Special Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Kremlin’s election interference was ongoing.
Corallo noted that the statement Trump put out was inaccurate and that regardless, Hicks should not have been involved in putting out the statement at all.
View the compete March 27 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.