WMAL Interview - JOE DIGENOVA - 12.05.16

INTERVIEW — JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney to the District of Columbia

Former POW Bowe Bergdahl seeks pardon from Obama to avert court martial for desertion. White House and Justice Department officials said Saturday that Bergdahl had submitted copies of the clemency request seeking leniency. If granted by Obama, it would allow Bergdahl to avert a military trial scheduled for April where he faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The misbehavior charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. If the pardon isn’t granted, Bergdahl’s defense team said it will expand its legal strategy to the new administration by filing a motion arguing President-elect Donald Trump violated his due process rights with scathing public comments about the case.
Trump: Supreme Court pick coming ‘pretty soon’
Obama ethics office congratulates Trump in bizarre mini-tweetstorm (Politico) — The federal Office of Government Ethics offered its congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon for his announcement that he will be ceding control of his business empire as president. The president-elect made the announcement Wednesday morning on Twitter, telling his followers, “I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” After cryptically posting and then deleting tweets directed at Trump earlier in the day, the OGE sent a flurry of posts praising the president-elect for his “divestiture” from his business holdings. But Trump did not say anything about divesting in his Tuesday morning announcement, and previously pledged only to give control of his companies to his three eldest children, not to remove his financial interests in them.