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Donald Trump has quietly killed off his own Justice Department pick—three weeks after it emerged he’d called the president a CLOWN.
Kosta Ligris, 49, was Trump’s choice to be his assistant attorney general, running the Office of Justice Programs, the DOJ arm that grants money to state, local and tribal police forces. A tech entrepreneur and former real estate lawyer, nominated out of Florida, he had no obvious qualification for the job beyond a well-documented enthusiasm for the president.
Then the Senate Judiciary Committee got wind of his old social media posts—and it turned out he hadn’t always felt that way towards the commander-in-chief, 80.
