I’ve written a lot about Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing over the years. They’ve been political hacks for a very long time and it’s not surprising they’d be raking in big bucks during this massive Trump grift. Before they joined the “elite strike force” of Giuliani, Ellis and Powell, they were working closely with Rudy on all the Hunter Biden laptop stuff. I’m sure they made a nice profit at it too.
But I honestly didn’t think D Genova would go so far as to publicly issue calls for cruel and unusual punishment for a lifelong Republican former official:
Krebs doesn’t seem like he’s willing to blow that off. Nor should he. There are a whole lot of crazies out there as he is no doubt well aware as the former head of cybersecurity for DHS.
Josh Marshall writes:
A lawyer for President Donald Trump said Monday evening that a former DHS official who’s debunked myths about election fraud should be “drawn and quartered” and “shot.”
And on Tuesday morning, the former official — the recent director of DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs — said he was exploring his legal options in response to the comment.
The Trump attorney, Joe diGenova, is a regular pundit on right-wing television networks. He said he’d like Krebs to be killed in an interview Monday evening on Newsmax.
The former DHS official, diGenova said, is “a class-A moron” who “should be drawn and quartered, taken out at dawn and shot.”
Krebs, who was fired via presidential tweet this month for debunking myths about election fraud, responded a few hours later during an interview on the Today Show.
“The way I look at it is, we are a nation of laws and I plan to take advantage of those laws,” he said. “I’ve got an exceptional team of lawyers that win in court, and I think they’re probably going to be busy.”
Krebs added to NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie that his legal team would be “taking a look at all our available opportunities.”
Guthrie asked if Krebs was worried about his safety, given threats he’s faced for speaking out about election security.
“I’m not going to give them the benefit of knowing how I’m reacting to this,” Krebs said. “They can know that there are things coming, though.”
It’s only a matter of time before some nut decides to take action.