Trump Campaign Lawyer Forced To Resign From Elite Club Says He Was ‘Canceled’

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Joseph diGenova, attorney for President Donald Trump, concludes a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Trump attorneys Rudolph Giuliani, Sydney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, also attended. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Joseph diGenova, attorney for President Donald Trump, concludes a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election ... UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 19: Joseph diGenova, attorney for President Donald Trump, concludes a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Trump attorneys Rudolph Giuliani, Sydney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, also attended. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova resigned from the elite Gridiron Club earlier this week after he suggested that a former cybersecurity official should be executed after touting a secure election and rebutting claims of widespread fraud made by President Donald Trump and his allies.

The Trump lawyer and former U.S. attorney made the announcement on Tuesday after being asked to step down after more than 25 years as a “limited” member of a club frequented by Washington-area journalists, the Washington Post reported Wednesday evening.

The news comes after diGenova faced swift backlash for telling conservative radio show host Howie Carr on Monday that Chris Krebs, a former federal elections official who Trump fired last month, should be “taken out at dawn and shot.”

Club president Craig Gilbert, who is the Washington bureau chief for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, said that the 135-year-old social club where Trump has given remarks was “dismayed” by the lawyer’s comments which he said were “antithetical to what the club is about.” 

DiGenova tried to walk back the remarks claiming they “were sarcastic and made in jest,” while adding that he did not wish Krebs harm.

DiGenova’s comments were denounced by the White House and also stirred action on Capitol Hill Wednesday as U.S. Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and Ted W. Lieu (D-CA), called on the D.C. bar to open an investigation into diGenova’s statements for incitement to violence and a violation of rules of professional conduct. 

The Trump campaign lawyer told the Post on Wednesday that he has since suffered a series of threatening phone calls, adding that his law firm was hiring private security for him, his wife and their employees.

Lamenting his departure from the club, diGenova asserted that he had been “canceled” for the remarks.

“It’s their club, and we’re at a strange time in American history, and, I guess I was canceled,” he said.

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  1. Joe you cancelled yourself. You got too caught up in the game, and you lost.

    Now Joe’s remarks were made on Howie Carr’s show. And we’ve heard the clip of Joe being Joe, but did Howie push back? Did he laugh? Shouldn’t Howie bear some scrutiny?

  2. During the Clinton administration a former friend threatened to kill me “when the race wars start.”

    Threatening death is not a fucking joke.

  3. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    You and your scumbag wife made a living trying to screw over public and political figures for decades.
    Step in front of a bus. The both of you.

    (How to make an extremist remark avoiding censure.)

  4. My feeling is that diGenova should be stretch in the rack, locked in an Iron Maiden, and garroted at dawn… liked my joke? ha ha ha!!

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  5. Gee, Joe, if you’d have used your head you might have realized that with daddy donnie losing the election there can now be expected consequences for being a belligerent asshole.

    At least decent Americans can hope so.

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