President Trump's Interview Bashing Jeff Sessions Meant Legal Spokesman Mark Corallo Had to Quit
The former spokesman for the president’s legal team confirmed to The Daily Beast that he resigned from his position—and those close to him say Trump gave him no other choice.
BETSY WOODRUFF
07.21.17 9:20 PM ET
When the president sat down for an interview with The New York Times, he all but begged his own attorney general to resign. Instead, his legal team’s own spokesman called it quits.
Mark Corallo, who had spent months defending President Donald Trump as spokesperson for his personal legal team—headed by longtime Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz—confirmed to The Daily Beast on Friday morning that he resigned. He didn’t provide any detail on his reasons.
But people who have known Corallo for years said the president’s New York Times interview, where he questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ integrity, meant he had no choice but to leave.
“To people who know him, his choice to leave was unavoidable on a moral and professional level,” said a longtime friend of Corallo’s.
“Anyone with Mark’s professional capabilities would have seen The New York Times interview was a debilitating P.R. calamity,” the friend added. “To direct broadsides on Mueller and the A.G. is going to be impossible from which to recover, and Corallo certainly would have known that. It makes total sense that he got out of dodge. He’s always had tremendous political instincts.”
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