“JP Cooney – one of the lead prosecutors of President Trump in Jack Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office – today announced his candidacy as a Democrat running for Virginia’s newly drawn seventh Congressional District. Described by the Washington Post as ‘a bold prosecutor who took on big cases,’ The New York Times as a prosecutor ‘known for his aggressive approach,’ and by Business Insider as a ‘top public corruption prosecutor,’ JP Cooney had an 18-year career at the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and in Jack Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office before being fired by President Donald Trump within a week of inauguration,” says a press release from the campaign. Cooney’s would-be seat technically doesn’t even exist yet as he’s awaiting Virginia Dems to gerrymander out four of the state’s Republicans.