Posted on 05/08/2025 9:41:11 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will replace interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin, his embattled nominee to serve as the top prosecutor for D.C., after 15 tumultuous weeks in office marked by his threats to investigate Trump’s perceived political adversaries and firings and demotions of career prosecutors who investigated the president and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Martin, 55, an ardent Trump loyalist whom the president named to a 120-day interim post on Inauguration Day, can serve until May 20.
Addressing reporters, Trump praised Martin and expressed disappointment at the Senate’s refusal to advance his nomination.
“I just want to say Ed is unbelievable. And hopefully we can bring him in too, whether it’s DOJ or whatever, in some capacity,” Trump said in response to questions after a White House announcement on a trade agreement with the United Kingdom. “We have somebody else that we’ll be announcing over the next two days who’s going to be great.”
Martin, a pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” and antiabortion activist with no prior experience as a trial lawyer or prosecutor, has been a polarizing figure from his first day overseeing the nation’s largest and one of its most powerful U.S. attorney offices. The D.C. office has more than 350 prosecutors and unique authority to prosecute both local and federal crimes in the nation’s capital, as well as public corruption, national security and other sensitive matters in the seat of the federal government.
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If any newspaper needed a few disgruntled employees the WashPest is it.
Damn Tillis …. sabotage success!
bad move. he was the man for the job.
Hopefully Tillis will soon be in jail.
Tom Tillis needs to go.
I bet THIS....
The Hidden Empire of Thom Tillis: Undisclosed Deeds, Rental Income, and Massive Felonies
.... is Trump's response to Tillis.
Tillis has been paid to take one for the team. He will run again next year and will not want for money, but he is probably out if the election is honest.
Tom Tillis needs to go.
To jail!
Don’t know much about him, what he would or could have done but hopefully Trump replaces him with someone that Tillis hates even more and forces him to go against Trump again.
Yay! Winning! Promises kept! Strength! The fart of the squeal! 3455789-d chess!!!
Trailer Trash Tillis sabotaged himself.
Yeah, yeah, we get it. You hate Trump.
Sometimes people can sabotage his efforts. Sure wish you wouldn't applaud them.
He is going to be replaced with Ed Bondi.
“He will run again next year and will not want for money, but he is probably out”
Tillis very well may not run in 2026 because there’s little chance he survives the primary and practically zero chance he wins the general (just about literally zero if Roy Cooper is the Rat nominee, and Lara Trump would fare no better against Cooper either). Tillis would likely even lose to the only announced Rat so far, which is unknown pissant-level ex-congressman Wiley Nickel.
Tillis may “run” just long enough to rake in some corporate campaign cash for his lucrative retirement fund. Filing deadline is in December.
Well if his new person is GREAT how will he get the RHINOs on board?
Big mistake, don’t let the leftists win. Trump did not let the leftists win when they tried to kill him twice. Go on prime time with speeches about what scumbags these RINOs are including any personal information that can be gathered. Play HARD BALL with these douche bags.
I would laugh if he named Matt Gaetz
I wonder if these guys should maybe just shut up and do their jobs instead of all this talking and then probably getting booted for what they said. Stop doing interviews and stay off the TV "news" shows.
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