The 81-Year-Old Trump-Loyalist Prosecutor Handpicked to Run a "Grand Conspiracy" Investigation of the President's Enemies — the Officials Who Once Investigated Him — Resigned Without Charging a Single Person, Five Months After Vowing He Could Bring Charges in 30 Days, After a Career Prosecutor Was Pushed Out for Refusing to Move Faster and the Justice Department Lost Confidence in Him
Joe diGenova, the 81-year-old longtime Trump loyalist installed in April 2026 to lead a sprawling "grand conspiracy" investigation in the Southern District of Florida targeting Trump's perceived political enemies, told the Associated Press on September 10 that he has resigned from the Justice Department — without bringing charges against anyone. The probe is a revenge project: it examines what DOJ officials cast as "possible crimes" embedded in the very investigations of Trump, stretching from the 2016 Russia inquiry through the January 6 prosecution and the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case. In other words, it seeks to criminalize the people who investigated Trump. diGenova got the job after a seasoned career prosecutor, Maria Medetis Long, was ousted for balking at bringing charges quickly; he took over vowing he could indict within 30 days. Five months later he has produced no prosecutions, a lead prosecutor on the John Brennan piece had already been replaced for questioning the strength of the case, DOJ officials had reportedly lost confidence in diGenova's leadership, and now he is gone — declining to say why, while calling it "an honor and a privilege to serve the president and the department." The pattern is the story: career prosecutors keep concluding these cases are too weak to charge, so they are replaced by loyalists willing to promise otherwise — and even the loyalist, given the machinery of a federal investigation and a mandate to deliver, could not manufacture a case that was not there.