Jerome Corsi has joint defense agreement with Trump

Roger Stone ally and conservative conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has a joint defense agreement with President Trump.

Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that such an agreement is in place. Under a joint defense agreement, attorneys of different subjects are allowed to share information.

{mosads}The Daily Beast first confirmed that the agreement is in place, with Giuliani telling the site that he has recently talked about Corsi with the president. He told the news outlet that Trump “vaguely knows” Corsi but “doesn’t remember the last time they spoke.”

The Daily Caller first reported this week that Corsi detailed the information-sharing agreement in an upcoming book.

Corsi told The Hill in an interview that he believed the joint defense agreement was “one way,” adding that his attorney, David Gray, only shared information about Corsi’s case with Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, and Sekulow did not pass on information about the president or other cases.

“The discussions were between Jay Sekulow and David Gray, my attorney, and they were entirely lawyer-to-lawyer,” Corsi said. “I never participated in any of the conversations.”

He also said he believed there was no discussion of a pardon from the president during those conversations, and that he would not be pursuing a pardon from Trump.

Giuliani told Politico last month that the president has agreements with 32 witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

Corsi said earlier this week that he had rejected an offer of a plea deal from Mueller’s team for one charge of lying to federal investigators.

Charging documents from Mueller’s team reported on by several outlets say that Corsi communicated with Stone, another subject of Mueller’s investigation, ahead of WikiLeaks’ release of illegally obtained Democratic emails in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Mueller has reportedly examined both Stone and Corsi over their ties to WikiLeaks and the group’s founder, Julian Assange. Both have denied being in communication with Assange before the email dump.

Niall Stanage contributed to this report, which was updated at 11:10 a.m.