commentary Joseph diGenova will pursue charges in the Florida "grand conspiracy" case against the president's perceived foes Published April 21, 2026 9:00AM (EDT) Joseph diGenova has decades of experience in attacking those seen as enemies of the GOP (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Sometimes it feels as if Donald Trump reinvented politics in whole cloth when he descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, and the world turned upside down. Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken. The truth is that the wheels were coming off our political culture long before Trump came on the scene, and every once in a while we’re reminded of it. On Saturday the New York Times reported the Department of Justice has hired Joseph diGenova , an 81-year-old former U.S.…