Captain Crazypants alert:
President Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Mr. Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials, to bolster his legal team, according to three people told of the decision.
The key phrase there is "on television." Donald Trump was watching teevee, saw a very, very crazy-sounding lawyer defending him with notions of all-encompassing conspiracy, and shouted "get me that lawyer!" to whoever it is he shouts those things to. And boy howdy, is this fella committed to the bit:
Mr. diGenova has endorsed the notion that a secretive group of F.B.I. agents concocted the Russia investigation as a way to keep Mr. Trump from becoming president. “There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton and, if she didn’t win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime,” he said on Fox News in January. He added, “Make no mistake about it: A group of F.B.I. and D.O.J. people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime.”
This is, of course, gibberish. It requires, among other things, that Mr. diGenova summarily dismiss (gestures expansively) every single chunk of information we have about Russian election interference as merely part of the "plot" to make Donald Trump look bad. It is the sort of thing that sets you apart from the pack even in the bucket of crazy that is Fox News.
DiGenova isn't a new player here, however. He's a former Republican Senate staffer, he practices law with his better-known wife, Victoria Toensing, who has represented a few folks caught up in the Trump undertow, and he's been pushing his theories of FBI conspiracy to protect Clinton across the wingnutosphere throughout the campaign and subsequent Trump administration.
However, the Times dryly notes both that diGenova is not expected to play a major role on Trump's legal team and that "Mr. Trump frequently changes his mind" about these hires, which is a polite way of saying diGenova's job offer may be rescinded the moment Trump sees a particularly photogenic dog on his television screen. And if the dog has a theory about worldwide anti-Trump conspiracies? Even better.