A former Trump legal team spokesman has reportedly hired a pair of Washington, D.C.-based lawyers after he was tied in a new book to the creation of a misleading statement about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign leaders and Russian officials.

Mark CoralloMark CoralloThe 81 names targeted in Democrats' expansive Trump probe The Memo: Capitol Hill braces for Cohen fireworks The Memo: Trump allies fret as legal troubles multiply MORE, a spokesman who was once offered the job of communications director, has hired the husband-wife legal team of Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova after he was named in Michael Wolff’s bestselling “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," Politico reported Friday.

Corallo was the spokesperson for President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz. He resigned in July.

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Corallo hired the attorneys because he expects to be summoned for interviews by special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s team and congressional investigators as part of the probes into Russian election interference, according to Politico.

In the book, Wolff states that the former spokesman quit after helping Trump to write a misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who he'd been told could offer dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE.

“Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to even answer the phone,” Wolff wrote. “Later that week, Corallo, seeing no good outcome — and privately confiding that he believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice — quit.”

The original statement released by the White House that Trump Jr. met with the Russian lawyer solely to discuss adoption policies, although that was later disputed by emails sent ahead of the rendezvous.

The White House confirmed that Trump weighed in on the statement "as any father would."