America First Legal VP announces investigation into group threatening lawyers associated with Trump

Vice President of America First Legal Gene Hamilton said Tuesday that the legal group is opening an investigation into "The 65 Project," which has vowed to go after the licenses of attorneys who chose to work for former President Donald Trump.

"The 65 Project made a lot of noise [and] made a lot of news," Hamilton said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "It's very clear that they were embarking on a campaign of career-ending slander, of filing things based on their observations."

The 65 Project, which  launched earlier this year as a "bipartisan" watchdog with both prominent Democrats and Republicans, announced it had launched digital and print advertisements in swing states such as Wisconsin and Michigan with the stark warning, "Don't lose your law license because of Trump." 

"They are filing actions against attorneys based on their perceptions of those attorneys' interpretations of law," Hamilton said. "So we have started an investigation into any communications or records related to their activities in coordination with the United States Department of Justice."

He added that those who weaponize the law for political gain need to be held accountable. 

The 65 Project has a list of lawyers that it has filed ethics complaints against, including former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, who worked on an Arizona election subversion case; Kurt Olsen, who represented Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in her 2022 election fraud case; and Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz.