Marc Kasowitz becomes the second member of Donald Trump’s legal team to quit today
The legal team representing Donald Trump in the Russia scandal had a headcount of five when the day began. That headcount is now at three. Attorney Marc Kasowitz has officially quit this evening, just weeks after Trump hired him specifically to defend him in the Russia scandal. And this wasn’t even the first defection from Trump’s legal team of the day.
Marc Kasowitz is officially out, according to Major Garrett of CBS News (link). This comes just hours after the news that Donald Trump has begun inquiring about pardoning himself and his children, and one day after Trump publicly attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a manner which further destabilized his tenuous grasp on the presidency. It also comes a few days after Kasowitz replied to an email from a stranger by threatening to hunt him down at his house. But Kasowitz wasn’t today’s only departure.
Just hours ago, John Santucci of ABC News reported that Donald Trump’s Russia legal team spokesman Mark Corallo had resigned as well (link). No specific reason for Corallo’s departure was given. But this comes amid an on-air MSNBC report that Trump’s newest attorney Ty Cobb called a meeting with Trump yesterday and got him to agree not to speak with the media any further about the Russia scandal. Trump then immediately did an interview with the New York Times in which he extensively discussed the Russia scandal.
So now we have to keep an eye out for whether Cobb ends up resigning as well. Jay Sekulow is also still on Trump’s legal team, but he’s had multiple self defeating incidents on the job. He tried to blame the scandal on the Secret Service, and he once contradicted himself so thoroughly during a Fox News interview that host Chris Wallace was left to mutter “Oh boy this is weird.”
