New York Daily News

Lawyers are left in limbo

DREAMERS ARE BIG LOSERS

- Chris Sommerfeld­t Jessica Chia

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S shaky legal team is struggling to find solid ground.

Veteran Washington attorney Joseph diGenova has still not formally joined Trump’s Russia probe team and his role is still in flux — even though his hiring was announced earlier this week, according to a personfami­liar with the matter.

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced diGenova’s new job Monday, but a source told the Daily News Friday that he still had not been officially hired and the nature of his position had not yet been determined.

DiGenova’s wife and fellow lawyer, Victoria Toensing, is also supposed to join the team, but her position is also on ice.

The uncertaint­y comes one day after the resignatio­n of John Dowd, Trump’s lead attorney handling the special counsel probe. Dowd didn’t offer a reason for his departure but he has reportedly drawn the President’s ire by trying to steer him away from his wish to sit down with Robert Mueller for an interview.

DiGenovaha­s publically pushed a dubious conspiracy theory that there's a secret society within the Justice Department bent on underminin­g the Trump presidency.

Toensing represents Mark Corrallo, a former spokesman for Trump who has been interviewe­d by Mueller regarding a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a group of Russian operatives promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. PRESIDENT TRUMP said Friday that he’ll ban transgende­r troops from the military, but left room for ambiguity.

In a memo released Friday night, the White House followed through on the ban, which the president announced on Twitter in July citing the supposed “disruption” and “burden” of medical costs.

“Transgende­r persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — individual­s who the policies state may require substantia­l medical treatment, including medication­s and surgery — are disqualifi­ed from military service except under certain limited circumstan­ces,” the memo states.

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