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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“But to my knowledge he did nothing for western NC flooding (Helene). Trump DID.”
I’m not disputing those statements, but I’m sure the media reporting was just the opposite in the most affected area (metro Ashville) because when it came time to vote in the 2024 elections that portion of the state lurched to the LEFT. So much for their appreciation of Trump’s efforts. The majority of pinko Ashville actually appreciated the Biden-Harris-FEMA cluster-f*ck, especially the part where people in homes with Trump signs were left to suffer without receiving help.
Though Ashville is a left-wing shithole, the entire metro area had given the GOP candidate for President a higher percentage than the U.S. as a whole all the way back to 1984. In 2024 they were very pro-Harris for President and absolutely head-over-heels for Joshie Stein for Governor.
Helene was supposed to ensure Trump’s win in NC, and although he DID win the state it was because of his success outside of the most decimated areas.
“It’s difficult impossible to get anything but a busy signal when calling Tillis’s office.”
Forget the cell too, he left his cell phone in his closet and they are too busy sorting through all the skeletons in there now to find it.
NO! TELL THOM TILLIS HE IS FINISHED !
Have the U.S. Attorney General name Ed Martin as a Special Prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge Senator Thom Tillis.
Tillis is deep state. He isn’t going anywhere.
He will do what ever he needs to do to sabotage the GOP candidate.
The state Judicial Democrats will protect him as long as he flips the seat to a real Democrat.
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