President Donald Trump's Department of Justice submitted — and then quickly rescinded — a subpoena for one of the president's perceived political foes, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that U.S. prosecutors working to determine whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress rescinded a recent subpoena to have Brennan testify before a grand jury. The rescission occurred when Trump removed his former attorney general, Pam Bondi, from her post after she failed to indict several of the president's perceived enemies, such as former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump had also recently installed another one of his personal attorneys to oversee the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation to determine whether officials in the former Biden administration broke the law when they investigated Trump.
Joseph diGenova, who previously represented Trump during his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, was appointed on Monday, but the report says it remains unclear whether he played a role in rescinding Brennan's subpoena.
"The withdrawal on Monday night of the subpoenas, which the Justice Department had issued over the weekend, was a shaky start for a new phase of the investigation," according to the report. "The department last week removed a career prosecutor who had been overseeing the matter, Maria Medetis Long, who was said to have objected to moving forward with it."