#resignation
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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.
Six Months Into an Unwinnable War With Iran, the Army's Civilian Leader — Secretary Dan Driscoll — Abruptly Resigned After a Months-Long Turf War With Defense Secretary Hegseth, Who Had Already Fired the Army's Top General; His Exit Leaves the Army Without a Senate-Confirmed Civilian or Uniformed Leader in the Middle of the Fight, to Be Replaced, Hegseth Hopes, by a Pentagon Spokesman
On August 31, 2026, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll — the civilian leader of the U.S. Army since February 2025, an Army veteran and close friend of Vice President JD Vance — abruptly submitted his resignation, which Trump accepted, effective September 3. His departure caps months of friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the direction of the Army and, above all, Hegseth's purge of its senior officers: in April, Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Randy George — with whom Driscoll worked closely — along with other generals, and pushed for tighter personal control over Pentagon messaging and policy. The timing is the alarming part. Driscoll is walking out six months into the war with Iran, a conflict that shows no sign of ending, with American troops deployed and the military stretched thin. Because Gen. George was already fired and now Driscoll is gone, the Army is left without a Senate-confirmed leader — civilian or uniformed — in the middle of a war. Hegseth's reported choice to replace Driscoll is Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's public-affairs chief and a political operative, whose path to Senate confirmation is uncertain. The picture is of a Defense Secretary who has spent his tenure purging commanders and consolidating control over messaging, and who has now driven out the Army's civilian head mid-war — trading experienced leadership for loyalty and communications, at the worst possible moment.
Gabbard "Forced Out" as Intelligence Chief — The Last Iran War Skeptic Exits the White House
DNI Tulsi Gabbard resigned citing her husband's cancer diagnosis — but a source told Reuters she was forced out. Gabbard had testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, which Trump publicly called "wrong" before launching strikes anyway. She was sidelined from war decisions, absent from key meetings, on a beach in Hawaii during the Venezuela attack. Her departure removes the last prominent anti-interventionist voice from Trump's inner circle. She is the fourth Cabinet official to leave.
Trump Threatened MTG After She Pushed Epstein Files: "My Friends Will Get Hurt"
After Greene signed the Epstein files petition, Trump called and yelled at her, warning his "friends will get hurt." He revoked his endorsement, called her "Marjorie Traitor Greene." She received death threats from MAGA — including a pipe bomb. She resigned from Congress.