Trump decides not to hire the lawyers he just hired

President Trump will no longer hire Victoria Toensing and her husband, Joseph diGenova, two lawyers he announced he would hire just last week.

"The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president's special counsel legal team," Trump's personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, said Sunday. "However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters." Toensing is already representing a former Trump team member who is a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.