DiGenova whines about "cancel culture" after being forced to resign from Gridiron Club

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/trump-lawyer-whines-about-being-canceled-after-elite-club-pushes-him-out-over-threat-to-election-official/

Trump attorney Joe diGenova has resigned from the elite Gridiron Club after the club asked him to step down in the wake of his call to execute former federal cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs.

The Washington Post reports that the Gridiron Club requested diGenova’s resignation after he said that Krebs, who was fired by President Donald Trump for saying that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair, should be “drawn and quartered” and “taken out and shot.”

“We were dismayed by his comments and we felt that they were, on top of everything else, just antithetical to what the club is about,” club president Craig Gilbert tells the Post. “It’s a social club — we’re all about fellowship and good will.”

diGenova insists that he was merely joking about killing the former election official, and he complained to the Washington Post that he was the victim of “cancel culture.”

Well Joey, civilized people don't think it is funny to "joke" about shooting people.

[Gothmog]

1. This idiot needs to be disbarred

[RobinA]

4. I Was Just

thinking when I read this that he's lucky if he doesn't get cancelled by the bar. Kind of uncool by a professional, not to mention illegal.

[malaise]

6. THIS n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. "But a drawing-and-quartering can provide great opportunities for camaraderie!"

[RDANGELO]

3. I believe he is being blackmailed by the Russians and or Trump.

He and Rudy are making fools out of themselves with all of these court cases trying to overturn the election.

[True Blue American]

7. DeGenova made the choice

To make the threat in public. He needs to pay the price, too.

They sure took Napolatino off the air when he told the truth about Trump.

[Aristus]

5. Hey, Dude; read your history: Drawn-and-Quartered culture was much, much worse...

[central scrutinizer]

8. Another douche bag

[Initech]

9. Ever notice how literally everyone who rants about "cancel culture" fails to see why?

It doesn't matter if it's Bill Burr or Ben Shapiro or James Woods. If you get fired or banned for saying something stupid or horribly insensitive, ever stop to think or analyze why people are pissed off at you? And it's not them, it's 100% you.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong. But I know that there's plenty who flat out refuse to admit that they have made a mistake.

[DBoon]

16. if you make your livng being a public figure

and publicly say something that a large part of the public finds horrific, you have failed at your job.

[Initech]

18. Agreed!

You deserve to be "canceled" for that! Nobody wants to hear anybody's racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, garbage, or violent fantasies, especially in a public forum or setting. And you can't blame "cancel" or "PC" culture if you say something that horrible.

[NCjack]

10. ha-ha-ha! Asshole!

[Kingofalldems]

11. DiGenova and wife Victoria Toensing were in on the Clinton Watergate nonsense.

He would sit there and talk about Clinton's 'crimes' while she sat next to him and made faces.

[yellowcanine]

20. DiGenova was appointed special counsel by Bill Barr in "passport gate" before the 1992 election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/12/18/special-counsel-probes-clinton-passport-case/d7b1c83b-3ae1-48aa-95a0-b95efeb209d3/

And the result has all the signs of a White House white wash.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-01-mn-9260-story.html

Joseph E. DiGenova sharply criticized as incompetent and naive the initial investigation of the matter conducted by former State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk, which led to DiGenova’s appointment as independent counsel.

At the same time, he apologized “on behalf of the United States government” to former presidential assistant Janet G. Mullins, the only named target of the investigation, and to others he said had been “unjustly accused” of wrongdoing.

DiGenova’s investigation covered whether Mullins or other officials violated any laws in searching Clinton’s passport files to check on a rumor that he had tried to renounce his citizenship while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in order to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. The inquiry included whether Mullins lied or otherwise impeded Funk’s investigation or conspired with others to commit any offense against the United States.

“While it is true that there were some stupid, dumb and indeed partisan things done by Bush Administration people in this case,” DiGenova said, “it is also true that no crimes were committed by any of those people who were so publicly identified.”

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Cancel culture? he resigned

[JohnQFunk]

13. ... because diGenova getting "cancelled" by the Gridiron club is so much worse...

… than calling for someone to be "cancelled" by drawing-and-quartering or. firing squad in an era of intensifying political violence.

Both he and his harridan liar wife need a rigorous disbarring.

[soothsayer]

14. Isn't he trying to cancel democracy? Good for the Gridiron Club

Refreshing to see backbone

[C_U_L8R]

15. "Just joking"

Laugh your way to ruin, funny guy. You canceled yourself all on your own.

[GeorgeGist]

17. Cancel his ass ...

doesn't bother me.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. He's right! So I expect him any minute now, to come to the defense of

that comedian holding the fake bloody head........