Trump is reportedly hiring a conspiracy theorist for his legal team. Heres what Joe diGenova has sa

Source: Washington Post

Trump is reportedly hiring a conspiracy theorist for his legal team. Here’s what Joe diGenova has said.

By Aaron Blake March 19 at 2:55 PM

President Trump has stepped up his attacks on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation in recent days, and his lawyer even suggested that the inquiry should be shut down. And just in case the direction in which this whole thing is headed wasn't clear, Trump may soon hire a lawyer who has argued that the president is being framed.

The New York Times's Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt report that Trump has decided to hire Joseph E. diGenova, who served as an independent counsel and a special counsel in the 1990s and was later hired by the New York Senate to investigate Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D).

DiGenova clearly has experience, but what may make him most attractive to Trump is his thoughts on this particular case. He told Fox News Channel in January that the investigation is “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.

“Make no mistake about it: A group of FBI and DOJ people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime,” diGenova said.

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Here's a sampling:

Feb. 2: 'The largest law enforcement scandal in history'

“We are headed toward a very sad ending for the FBI and senior DOJ officials. ... I believe that several high FBI officials will be charged criminally. And it is conceivable that some DOJ people will also be charged criminally. ... I would consider this the largest law enforcement scandal in history for this reason. The activities of McCabe and others and Bruce Ohr and others were designed to subvert the Constitution and a national election, the most serious offense under our Constitution.” (“Hannity”)

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