Joseph diGenova is an American lawyer, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1988. DiGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing, are partners in the Washington, D. C., law firm di Genova and Toensing. He is known for promoting conspiracy theories about the Department of Justice and the FBI.
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Joseph diGenova is an American lawyer, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1988. DiGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing, are partners in the Washington, D. C., law firm di Genova and Toensing. He is known for promoting conspiracy theories about the Department of Justice and the FBI. In November 2020, President Donald Trump named diGenovas to join a legal team led by Rudy Giuliani to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Trump was defeated. In August 2019, di Genovas was hired by the Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash to defend the U.S. to a mining permit in India. In April 2018, digenova called for the firing of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, said that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election were ‘legal terrorists’ and called former FBI Director James Comey ‘a dirty cop’ In May 2018 tweet, Trump quoted diGenrovas as saying: ‘The recusal of Jeff Sessions was an unforced betrayal of the President of the United State’ In February 2019, he stated in a podcast of Laura Ingraham that the US is in a civil war and that he advises friends to prepare for total war by voting and buying guns.
On September 18, 2018,DiGenova discounted charges that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, then 17 years old, had allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Christine Blasey Ford at a party. The allegations referred to a time when Kavanaugh was attending Georgetown Preparatory School. Di Genova called on President Trump to pardon Scooter Libby, adviser of Dick Cheney, who was found guilty of perjury in an investigation revolving around leaks of sensitive classified material. Trump pardoned Libby on April 13, 2018. Di Genovans were hired to serve on Trump’s legal team for the Special Counsel investigation, but Trump backtracked due to potential conflicts of interest.
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