Joe diGenova, a former Trump campaign lawyer who backed President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, will head up a Florida-based federal investigation into former federal officials who investigated Trump, a Justice Department official confirmed to NBC News on Saturday.
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DiGenova, 81, who was U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Reagan era, will lead a sprawling investigation targeting Trump's enemies, reaching all the way back to a previous Justice Department inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Trump and his allies have long alleged that the "deep state" colluded against him during his first term and that the Russia investigation was meant to undermine him.
A 2019 report found that Russia did try to boost Trump's candidacy and tank Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign. Trump was never charged with a crime, and former special counsel Robert Mueller chose not to determine whether there was a chargeable offense because long-standing precedent held that a sitting president could not face federal criminal charges.
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