I don't get this Tillis *spits* guy.
He's got an 'R' after his name that's worth about as much to him as it means to Murkowski.
Just a reminder that @SenThomTillis voted to confirm both Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco to lead Biden's DOJ. Now he wants to sink the confirmation of acting DC US attorney Ed Martin, who is investigating corruption at that office under Garland/Monaco leadership.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 1, 2025
What I understand is happening right now is that a lawyer named Ed Martin is Trump's nominee and has been the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia since his inauguration.
The problem is his interim term expires on 20 May unless he's confirmed, and none other than scummy Adam Schiff has placed a hold on the man's nomination.
Now, Mr. Martin does have a colorful resume if you're a Democrat gunning for any way to gum up Trump's administrative works.
MSNBC even made a list recounting the 'scandal-plagued' prosecutor's sins.
...For those unfamiliar with the Missouri Republican, Martin’s “greatest hits” package features misguided and unnecessary fights with the dean of Georgetown University’s law school, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former President Joe Biden and Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Eugene Vindman of Virginia — and that’s before one adds Wikipedia and prominent medical journals to his increasingly bizarre list of targets. During his brief tenure, Martin has also:
- demoted multiple senior officials involved in Jan. 6 insurrection cases;
- compared one of the criminal charges used against Jan. 6 defendants to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II;
- falsely described himself as one of the president’s lawyers;
- made dubious denials about his earlier praise for a Nazi sympathizer;
- made more than 150 appearances on Russian propaganda outlets between August 2016 to April 2024;
- weighed in on a civil case involving the White House, which had literally nothing to do with his office;
- intervened in a dubious Environmental Protection Agency investigation;
- made a dubious decision in a case involving Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida;
- launched the wildly unnecessary “Operation Whirlwind”;
- also launched the wildly unnecessary “Project 1512” initiative;
- also launched a wildly unnecessary “election accountability” unit;
- made a creepy public vow to wield his prosecutorial powers against those who get in Elon Musk’s way;
- engaged in brazen conflict of interest in a Jan. 6 case, in which he effectively took both sides of a criminal case;
- and kicked off a radically unnecessary investigation into Jack Smith and a law firm that gave the former special counsel pro bono legal services.
Woof. They really don't like him.
Former employees of the D.C. office all got together and do what they do naturally these days when they don't like someone, especially if they got laid off or fired by them - they wrote a community letter.
Nearly 100 former employees and prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., have signed a memo opposing President Trump's nominee to lead the office.
The memo is the latest effort by critics of acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to stop his Senate confirmation for the permanent role, which is among the most powerful federal prosecutor positions in the country. The letter was signed by a group of former prosecutors who served in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office across seven decades, under administrations from Lyndon B. Johnson's through Joe Biden's.
...His nomination has been a flashpoint of controversy since the beginning of the Trump administration. Martin lacks any prosecutorial experience, served as an advocate in the "Stop the Steal" movement denying the 2020 election results, worked as a defense lawyer on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases and fired some of the lawyers who prosecuted Jan. 6 defendants.
Senate Democrats have blasted Martin's selection, with Sen. Adam Schiff, a first-term California Democrat, calling Martin unqualified and dangerous for the role of U.S. attorney. Schiff has placed a hold on Martin's nomination, seeking to slow down the confirmation process.
I think that's what really burns their butts the worst - he was at the rally that day and then a defense attorney for J-6 defendants. Like, how dare he, no?
— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) April 28, 2025
And he's been pretty inflammatory with his opinions from what else I find about him. Detractors and negative stories are everywhere in the mainstream press.
But my goodness, Mr Martin has many ardent defenders who are going point by point, making the case for his confirmation
The D.C. establishment hasn’t been shy about its attempts to defeat several of President Trump’s executive appointees. And the effort to derail the Senate confirmation of U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia nominee Ed Martin is no different.
...Written no differently than if it were a Democrat Party press release, the letter cited Martin’s past comments regarding the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol demonstrations as reasons “disqualifying” him from consideration. The authors further fearmongered that, should he be confirmed, Martin would turn the D.C.-based U.S. attorney’s office “into a political arm of the current administration” — something they seemingly had no issue with when it was occurring under the Biden administration.
It makes you wonder if perhaps the brash Mr. Martin's manner of doing business doesn't have some hair standing on end in an already very nervous swamp.
...As The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann previously reported, Martin has been laser-focused on restoring accountability and transparency to a Department of Justice (DOJ) that was fully weaponized by the Biden administration to target its political opponents.
Alongside the Trump DOJ, Martin has “sought the firing or retirements of numerous top FBI and DOJ personnel, and an accounting of all FBI personnel involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 prosecutions.” He’s also, as Pullmann noted, “direct[ed] an internal probe into the DOJ’s abuse of a post-Enron obstruction statute that the Supreme Court said the department used unlawfully to imprison right-leaning Capitol protesters with help from Constitution-hating federal judges.”
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The acting U.S. attorney for D.C. also appears to be probing the DOJ’s involvement in perpetuating the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
According to a Tuesday report by independent journalist Julie Kelly, Martin sent a letter last month “to a former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team seeking a sit-down to discuss the DOJ’s dirty prosecution of a Trump 2016 campaign aide.” That individual would be Aaron Zelinsky, whom Kelly noted “resigned from the DOJ on January 10 and later whined on social media that he was ‘furious, heartbroken, and disappointed at what the President and his appointees are doing to DOJ,’ [and] handled the cases against George Papadopoulos and Roger Stone.”
Ah, I see. Looking into the Biden DoJ's dirty prosecutions is not how 'things are done.'
That explains a lot.
Whatever would the nation do with an honest D.C. Attorney's office?
It's been so long.
Accordingly, the Wiki cult has been hard at work helping out the opposition.
New blog post: The Wikipedia Cult Trashes Ed Martin's Article.
— The Wikipedia Flood (@WikipediaFlood) May 1, 2025
The key to understanding Wikipedia. that it cannot fix itself, is grasping that it is a cult. Like all cults, it vindictively attacks its enemies. The article on Ed Martin is a good example.https://t.co/kayt26SAtV pic.twitter.com/ioTgRExSLt
It's another reason the Left is going apes**t over his nomination - because Martin's threatening Wiki's tax-free status.
This is long overdue. @Wikipedia has been flagrant left-wing propaganda for years now.
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) April 27, 2025
They even went after fellow liberals like @BretWeinstein just for the sin of daring to question the Covid response.
I have to give it to him, he's a pistol.
The entire Trump team is standing firm behind him.
Ed Martin is the only person so far in Trump’s second term who’s had the boldness to even begin holding the Russiagate fraudsters accountable—taking aim at the Mueller thugs. For that alone, he deserves confirmation.
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 28, 2025
And his few months in D.C. have seen a remarkable swing back to law and order in a city plagued with crime.
🚨Confirm Ed Martin NOW🚨
— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) April 28, 2025
I'm hearing rumors that the Senate is being weak on the confirmation of this great law man because of his willingness to do the righteous thing.
Call your senators and tell them to confirm Ed Martin NOW!pic.twitter.com/iAnUUJy9aX
Someone who's been a huge help rooting out the corruption that the DOGE team and others have uncovered feels she owes Ed Martin a personal thank you and has raised her voice in support. Data Republican said Martin was the only public official to stand up for her in that frightening time.
Hello @SenThomTillis ,
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) May 1, 2025
You say you oppose the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney due to concerns about his stance on political violence.
Let me be clear: I know political violence. I've lived through it. I still am living through it.
Two months ago, I was doxxed. News… https://t.co/5i4f6Ra7pa pic.twitter.com/cmjJT31VJL
...Two months ago, I was doxxed. News outlets followed with targeted stories; one in particular from the Salt Lake Tribune focused on my husband’s distillery. The comments beneath that article didn't treat it as news. They treated it as a map, a place to boycott and protest. Then came Dogequest, a viral site featuring that same distillery with a Molotov Cocktail cursor. His address was the only one in Utah visible without zooming. Thas was incitement.
We received threatening messages. We pulled our kids from school. I fled the state. For six weeks, I homeschooled in hiding. When I returned for a small public event, the hosting group assembled an eleven-person security team just so I could speak.
During that chaos, one public official stood up. One. Ed Martin. From his official X account, he publicly condemned the harassment. That one post—at that time—did more to make me feel safe than anything else...
The clock's ticking on the nomination.
Ed Martin is the nominee for US Attorney for the District of Columbia, which has been - until now - a hotbed of leftwing political prosecution. Think J6 and more. Shifty Adam Schiff has had Ed's nomination on hold since April 1. If Ed isn't confirmed by May 15, he may have to…
— Cleta Mitchell (@CletaMitchell) May 1, 2025
So, there it is.
I'm no lawyer - I don't even play one on HotAir - so I can't speak to the legal back-and-forth about this. I can say that, from what I've read, this is going to be a difficult one to push over the top, both thanks to Martin himself and what he's done since taking the interim office appointment, upsetting the applecart - and good for him.
But there's no denying the D.C. swamp needs a fearless firehose taken to it, and he's been that guy while he's had the chance.
Also, I very much like all the folks lining up on his side, and the folks lining up against him are exactly who I'd want to see across the fence screeching about it.
That kind of confirms Trump picked the right guy again.
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