Just hours after President Trump labeled as “fake news” reports of lawyers not wanting to join the team advising him in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — two prominent candidates dropped out of consideration Sunday.

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, said in a statement.

“However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”

Sekulow’s statement followed last Thursday’s resignation of John Dowd, the lawyer who had been leading the crew advising Trump in Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

It also comes as his lawyers negotiate with Mueller over having Trump sit down for an interview with the special counsel.

Trump met last week with Toensing and diGenova, who has floated the claim that the Department of Justice hatched a “brazen plot” to frame Trump if Hillary Clinton lost the election, last week.

But he felt like they had no chemistry, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

Just hours before Sekulow’s statement, Trump went on Twitter to call reports of lawyers hesitating to join his team “Fake News.”

“Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on,” Trump posted on Twitter.

In a statement, the couple thanked the president “for his confidence in us and we look forward to working with him.”

They are representing former Trump official Mark Corallo and former campaign aide Sam Clovis, who are named in the Mueller investigation.

With Post wire services