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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.
Trump Campaigned on Ending the "Weaponization" of the Justice Department — Then Turned It Into an Instrument for Prosecuting His Enemies: His Acting AG Says Trump Has a "Right" and "Duty" to Order Investigations, a Trump-Loyalist "Grand Conspiracy" Grand Jury in Florida Is Hunting His Foes, and 100+ Career Prosecutors Have Quit
A Democratic member of Congress, appearing on NBC's "Hallie Jackson NOW" on July 31, 2026, said Trump is "hellbent" on controlling the Justice Department and is "personally directing" the cases the department is bringing against his political opponents. The charge is not speculation; it is the documented operating principle of the DOJ under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. In his first press conference as acting AG, Blanche said Trump has both a "right" and a "duty" to order the department to investigate his enemies — and when asked how he would square that with Trump's own executive order claiming to end the "weaponization" of government, he said he would not. Under Blanche, the DOJ has: re-indicted former FBI Director James Comey (after Trump publicly forced out the prosecutor who found insufficient evidence, installed his own former personal lawyer, and got an indictment within days — later dismissed, then refiled over a social-media post of seashells spelling "86 47"); pursued New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, former CIA Director John Brennan, members of Congress, and a probe into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife; and stood up a "grand conspiracy" grand jury in the Trump-friendly Southern District of Florida — led by 2020-election-denier Joe diGenova — to hunt Obama- and Biden-era officials as an anti-Trump cabal. More than 100 career prosecutors have resigned, many citing political interference. A Marquette poll found 55% of Americans believe the DOJ has filed unjustified cases against Trump's opponents. The thing Trump said he would stop, he built.