Daniel Wolfram
A partisan lawyer in the Trump administration suddenly resigned after he was hired to go after Trump’s enemies.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the biggest difference between his first and second term is that he used to be “hunted,” but now he is the “hunter.”
That became clear when Trump fired a long-time prosecutor in Florida and installed a loyalist to help him prosecute people who he felt had unfairly targeted him.
But just before the weekend commenced, the lawyer resigned seemingly out of nowhere.
The lawyer behind the “grand conspiracy” resigns
Joe diGenova, who had not worked as a procecutor in decades, abruptly handed in his resignation yesterday to Attorney General Todd Blanche.
According to ABC News, this comes after Trump and other DOJ employees had grown impatient with diGenova’s lack of results in his work with the “grand conspiracy” investigation that is based out of Florida and is intended to possibly prosecute Trump’s political foes in regard to Trump’s own past indictments and the allegation of Russian collusion during the 2016 election.
According to ABC’s sources, the Florida lawyer pitched himself as the guy who would bring justice to Trump’s debunked claims about his political opponents and the election he lost fair and square. So far, diGenova’s work has resulted in no criminal indictments.
No evidence for indictments
The Justice Department released a statement praising Joe diGenova. “We are grateful to Joe diGenova for his many years of service to the Department.”
Joe diGenova told ABC News that he “resigned by letter today at 3 o’clock” and that he was not going to say anything further. “I wish them well.”
That turned out not to be the case.
Indeed, when reporter Josh Christenson of the New York Post reached diGenova by phone, he shot back at the administration, which had leaked to Christenson that the lawyer had lost focus and was slowing the “grand conspiracy” operation down.
“If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem,” diGenova said dismissively.
