Trump will keep trading prosecutors for loyalists until he runs out |
President Donald Trump's approval rating is in free fall, the price of gasoline is still on the rise and his war of choice in Iran is dragging into week eight.
But Trump is laser-focused on what he knows to be important – retribution for the federal investigations into Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 presidential election, and for those who acknowledged his defeat in the 2020 election, and anyone who ever tried to hold him accountable to the law.
Enter Joseph diGenova, a longtime Trump loyalist and advocate for retribution against the president's perceived enemies. DiGenova, who runs a Washington, DC, law firm when he's not delivering pro-Trump hot takes on right-wing cable shows, was sworn in on April 20 as "counselor to the attorney general" at the Department of Justice.
His real job: Find a way to charge former CIA Director John Brennan with a crime in the so-called grand conspiracy investigation.
Republicans in the U.S. House in October referred Brennan, who was CIA director under President Barack Obama, to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, claiming he made false statements in 2023 congressional testimony about the investigation into Russia's efforts in 2016.
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