President Donald Trump is reportedly set to hire a highly controversial former federal prosecutor with a history of peddling conspiracy theories as part of his legal team.
The former US attorney, Joseph diGenova, has accused former FBI director James Comey of being a "dirty cop" and a "political assassin."
He also characterized the Russia investigation as part of the FBI's attempt to "frame" Trump with "a false Russian conspiracy that never existed."
So far, 19 people have been charged in the Russia investigation, and five have pleaded guilty to crimes, including Trump's former national security adviser and a Trump campaign deputy chairman.
President Donald Trump is set to hire a former top federal prosecutor with a history of pushing conspiracy theories about the Department of Justice and the FBI on television, The New York Times reported Monday.
The news comes after one of Trump's personal defense attorneys, John Dowd, ignited a firestorm over the weekend when he said the Russia investigation should be shut down. Though he later walked back the statement, Dowd's comment marked the first time a member of Trump's legal team publicly called for such a move.
The former US attorney Trump has reportedly decided to hire, Joseph diGenova, has a long history of making controversial remarks about the FBI and DOJ to the media.
DiGenova was the lead prosecutor in the DOJ's pursuit of Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry in the late 1980s. But a decade later, he and his wife, Victoria Toensing, built their reputations peddling misleading conspiracies about the DOJ, Democrats, and the FBI that have little foundation in established facts.
DiGenova and Toensing were a constant media presence during the Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked former President Bill Clinton's second term.
The Washington Post reported in 1998 that the couple were so firmly entrenched in Washington media circles that they were both members of the lofty Gridiron Club.
Meanwhile, diGenova has characterized special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation as the FBI's attempt to "frame an incoming president with a false Russian conspiracy that never existed, and they knew it, and they plotted to ruin him as a candidate and then destroy him as a president."
The Russia investigation is probing the extent of the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 US election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.
Earlier this year, diGenova accused the FBI of using "false facts" to surveil members of the Trump campaign.
"Of course there was nothing," diGenova said. "There was never anything. It was done not for legitimate law enforcement reasons, not for national security reasons, but to create a false case against" Trump.
So far, 19 people have been charged with crimes in the Russia investigation, and five have pleaded guilty , including Trump's former national security adviser and the Trump campaign's former deputy chairman.
Trump is the focal point of Mueller's obstruction-of-justice investigation, and he also recently emerged as a subject of scrutiny in the collusion thread. He has maintained that his campaign did not collude with Russia.
"There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton and, if she didn't win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime," diGenova told Fox News earlier this year. "Make no mistake about it: A group of FBI and DOJ people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime."
DiGenova also called former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired last May, a "dirty cop" and "a political assassin."
Meanwhile, diGenova's wife Victoria Toensing, also a former federal prosecutor, has represented key members of the Trump campaign who are also witnesses in the Russia investigation, including former Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis and former informal Trump adviser Erik Prince.
It's unclear what kind of role diGenova will be taking on when he joins the president's legal team. He did not respond to a request for comment from The Times.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-hiring-joseph-digenova-controversial-doj-veteran-2018-3
diGenova and his wife are hard right political operatives masquerading as responsible attorneys.
Those old enough might remember them as Fox News analysts over the years who have opined on on many conspiracy theories. The wife was recently peddling the now debunked Uranium One / FBI informant story.
diGenova's addition to the trump legal team guarantees trump's defense will be predicated on conspiracy bs and distorted interpretation of 'facts'.
Trump has a real knack for finding dishonest and corrupt people-- he's amazingly good at it!
Then again when you are a bottom feeder all your friends are as well.
Scum finds scum.
Is that how Obama a found Holder and Lynch? According to your "logic" it is.
When you got nothing, name drop as many dems as you can think of. Pathetic.
"Gingrich, McConnell, Bush..."
There.
Actually, President Obama is an attorney that presided over the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated from Harvard! Trump didn't! In fact, Harvard rejected Trump's application for admission, despite his pappy, "Snappy with the waxed moustache" was "filthy rich" and demanded that the nation's most prestigious college allow his spoiled, rotten son, Donald J. Trump, although his grades at Wharton Business College were dismal.
Obama is a CONSTITUTIONAL LAW professor, a former community organizer, state Senator and respected U. S. Senator, married to an attorney. Obama would two, four-year terms in the highest office in the land as President in a "scandalous 8 years" of dedicated work. He guided America back from the Republican led rush to the "Edge of the Financial Cliffs", that they are so fond of, and, return greedily to every chance they get.
Lynch and Holder, like Obama were exceptionally bright, studied, measured and compassionate Attorneys-At-Law! Trump is not. Unlike Trump ,who is a notorious con man and International Thief, who sucks Swamp Scum for nourishment, Obama, who was BLACK, wore a white hate, while Trump, who is WHITE, wore a RED hat in honor of the Russians, his chief benefactor.
If you like prison food - you'll love Dumpf!
It reminds me of the old, black and white movies days from my youth, in the "good old days" of last century, where the "Bad" guys (Trump) always secures the services of a "HIRED GUN" (diGenova) to do what he is too cowardly to do, shoot someone in the back of the head while he is sleeping, or, "bushwhack" him with a pack of outlaws.
We all knew how it would turn out, but, as kids, we were glued to our seats (Elmer's), in the days before Day Care.
However, today, 39% of the citizens of Dodge believe it's all "FAKE NEWS"; the "good guys" are now the "bad guys" and the "bad guys" are the heroes who are upsetting the apple cart by liberating us from REALITY!
I long for those days when I could "cap" a bad guy or two, don't you?
the citizen of Dodge are
Best and the brightest my aunt fanny
Too bad diGenova , doesn't know, or forgot, that he won't get paid. Trump stiffs everyone.
New York gangster, grease ball, and student of Rog Cohen, the Mafia's legal beagle.
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So the left keeps running a sham investigation by partisan hacks and then criticizes Trump and his right to pick his own legal counsel.
I guess this is all deflection for the disaster awaiting Dems when the IG report comes out.
If you look at trumps history of legal counsel there was the guy that introduced trump to Murdoch known as Satans counsel and his underworld buddies. You could run Obama through a sieve an not have a single bit remaining of the less than pure like trump has by the ton. Excuse those that might criticize the wholesomeness of such a sleaze.
Smoking weed, again, I see. Trump did not collude with the Russians. He committed TREASON! The parade they are planning for him is dragging him through the streets of D.C. in a cage, as the residents pelt him with CHEETEOS, according to my sauces.
He should make a great addition to the team. He knows how crooked the deep state is because he had an insiders look. He is going to do for Trump what Cochran did for OJ.
OJ did it.
What are you trying to say Dean? You have a consciousness of Trump's guilt ?
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Get a grip on reality, Deano, the only 'deep state' we need to think about is Stormy Daniels' twat!
I agree. I have been thinking about that a lot lately! I am in The Deep State!
He also has a not so unique view about the DOJs ability to indict a sitting POTUS. He wrote about it back in 1997:
"The nation, in fact, could conceivably benefit from the indictment of a president. It would teach the valuable civics lesson that no one is above the law."
Trump's new lawyer insists that it CAN.
Let's get it on!
Or what Strzok and Comey did for Clinton.
Die?
Of course he is, trump believes anything and everything as long it has nothing to do with facts.
J. diGenova Is confident that he is standing on solid ground. The Trump base and the military will stand and defend Trump against all truths and threat from R. Mueller, a decorated Marine Corp Vietnam Veteran. Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting will make this so. Trump is safe. The 22nd Amendment shall be declared null and void. The president's physician stated during Trumps last physical that the president could live to be 200 if he exercised more and engaged in a better diet.
Perhaps I forgot to mention that J. diGenova's "solid ground" consists of money laundering swamp and Russian quicksand.
Comedian, writer and film director Carl Reiner will be 96 years old tomorrow. He is till sharp as a whip.
It wont be long before we can smile again. The implosion of President Donald J. Trump has commenced and his nightmarish Presidency will soon become a negative footnote in our nation's history.
Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) [1] [2] is an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and writer whose career spans nearly seven decades.
During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar's Hour and Your Show of Shows , starring Sid Caesar . In the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show . [3] [4] He also had great success as a film director and writer and partnered with Steve Martin in the 1970s when Reiner co-wrote and/or directed some of Martin's most successful films, including the 1979 film The Jerk . He had voiced Sarmoti in Father of the Pride .
Reiner formed a comedy duo with Mel Brooks in " 2000 Year Old Man " and acted in films such as The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) and the Ocean's Trilogy (2001–2007). Reiner has won nine Emmy Awards [5] and one Grammy Award during his career.
I have no problem smiling right now. As long as Clinton is not in the White House, things are good.
Joseph diGenova
To quote one of America's greatest's philosophers, the incomparable Bernard Fife: "He's a nut!"
President Trump's new lawyer once argued America could 'benefit from the indictment of a president'
I believe that we have a perfect test case for him in Donald J. Trump. Bring on the indictments.
He sure can pick'em , Bloody Gina next up!