The inquiry has sought to link disparate criminal inquiries into the president as a multiyear scheme to damage his political prospects.
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THE ACTUAL CONSPIRACY
Prosecutor hired to find a conspiracy against Trump resigns, having been part of the real one

As it ran on the front
They hired Joseph diGenova, Reagan-era prosecutor, to run down the "grand conspiracy" — the theory that Obama- and Biden-era officials spent years scheming to sink Trump's political career. Several months into the job, Thursday, he quit. No indictments. No one charged. What he offered on the way out was the word "ethical," unattached to a single noun, the kind of sentence a man writes when the sentence he means would name himself.
Because the record was already sitting there when he left it: diGenova was part of the group that tried to overturn the 2020 election. The man Trump sent to prove a conspiracy against him was, by the public record NBC put in the same paragraph as his resignation, a member of the one conspiracy in this story anyone can actually document. He didn't need eight months or eight years to find it. He just had to look in a mirror he'd apparently been avoiding since he took the job.…
…(cont) And he quit in the same stretch that a deleted email surfaced out of Letitia James's office — her bureau chief, staff directed in writing to "find and pursue crimes" against Trump, Truth Social, and other targets, without, a prosecutor alleges, anything credible to go on. Read those two side by side and the "grand conspiracy" case and the case it was supposedly investigating start to look like the same instruction sheet, issued from opposite desks, with different names on the letterhead.
It isn't new. Three weeks earlier, on August 21, a DOJ whistleblower — a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division — filed a complaint saying the administration's "antisemitism" task force ran the identical play against Harvard, Brown, and Columbia: settlements extracted from universities that turned up little to no actual discrimination, an investigation built to reach the conclusion it started with. Same building, same season, same method — decide the crime, then go hire someone to find it.
So the man built to find the conspiracy quits without proving it, exits citing ethics he won't name, and leaves behind a Justice Department where the accusation and the accused keep trading places depending on which desk you're standing at. Nobody's been charged with anything. That's not the failure of the investigation. That was always the point of it — the process is the product, and the product doesn't need a verdict to do its job, it just needs a headline and eighty-one years of a man's name attached to it.
“They hired an 81-year-old to go find a conspiracy, and it turns out he didn't have to look — he was already standing in it, part of the actual crew that tried to overturn a presidential election. Guy quits Thursday, no charges filed against anybody, and the only thing he'll say is "ethical" problems, no nouns attached, which is the sound a man makes when the truth would indict the guy who hired him. Meanwhile the DOJ he just walked out of is the same building where somebody's staff got an email telling them to go find crimes first and figure out who committed them second — so the search for the conspiracy and the actual conspiracy are now using the same copy machine.”
“Look, ethical concerns are exactly the system working as designed — a prosecutor found something he couldn't square with his conscience and he walked, which is more self-policing than the previous administration ever showed. As for 2020, that's ancient history that's been litigated, sort of, in the sense that nobody's actually — did I say litigated? I meant it's a separate matter entirely, unrelated, next question.”
The receipts
Joseph diGenova, the former Reagan-era prosecutor hired only several months before, resigned Thursday as the prosecutor leading the Justice Department investigation into an alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump. “I resigned today at 3 p.m. I said it had been a privilege and an honor to serve the president,”
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Prosecutor who led ‘grand conspiracy’ probe of Trump targets resigns without charging anyoneJoe diGenova, 81, was part of a group that tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Joe diGenova, the prosecutor who was tapped by Attorney General Todd Blanche to supervise the "grand conspiracy" investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials, told CBS News he has resigned.
Joseph diGenova resigned from his Justice Department role investigating the alleged "Grand Conspiracy" surrounding the Trump-Russia investigations.
The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Joe diGenova resigns abruptly from DOJ job investigating Trump foes, calling out ‘ethical’ problems on way outCounselor to the Attorney General Joe diGenova abruptly resigned Thursday from a sprawling probe into former officials in the Obama administration who allegedly pushed claims of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
· Trump says Michael Cohen ‘recanted’ criminal testimony and asks New York to drop ‘any remnant’ of case from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· New federal grand jury subpoena issued to former James Comey advisor in leak investigation: sources from the morgue, 31 Aug 2026
· DOJ Whistleblower Confirms "Antisemitism" Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations from the morgue, 21 Aug 2026
· Deleted email details alleged Trump-targeting push inside Letitia James’ office: ‘Find and pursue crimes’ from the morgue, 2 Sep 2026
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