White House lawyer Emmet Flood walks in the halls of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in January. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Emmet Flood, the veteran defense lawyer the White House brought in to help navigate Robert S. Mueller III’s special counsel investigation, will be leaving on June 14, President Trump said Saturday. Case Closed!” the president said, repeating his oft-used phrases to describe and attack the special counsel investigation. Flood was based in the White House Counsel’s Office, though his title was White House lawyer and he was uniquely focused on responding to Mueller’s investigation. He served as White House counsel temporarily after McGahn’s departure in late 2018 before he was ultimately replaced by Pat Cipollone.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2019 20:50 UTC