A former federal prosecutor sounded the alarm over Acting U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C., Ed Martin, who helped organize the “Stop The Steal” movement.
Yesterday, Martin
posted to social media, calling himself and his colleagues, “President Trump’s lawyers,” who were “proud to fight to protect his leadership as our president.”
“I’m going to ring the alarm bell here about this guy, Ed Martin…I think he’s extraordinarily dangerous,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said. “He has zero prosecutorial experience, but he also has no clue what he’s talking about. Take that one posting that you just put, he said, ‘We represent the president.’ No, we don’t! I was with DOJ for years. You didn’t go into court and say, ‘Elie Honig representing George W. Bush, Elie Honig representing Barack Obama.’ You said, ‘representing the United States…
the president…is not your client. Your client is the people of the United States.”
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Honig said Martin struck a sycophantic posture with Elon Musk, offering to protect the functional head of the Department of Government Efficiency at any cost.
“If you look at his Twitter feed, his X feed…he is basically kissing up to Elon Musk on a daily basis. ‘Oh, it was such an honor to meet with you, and we will hunt down to the ends of the earth anyone who bothers you, anyone who acts unethically,'” Honig mocked Martin.
“None of that is the job of a prosecutor…and the fact that he seems to want to act as Elon Musk’s personal police force, I think, is very dangerous, and we need to keep a close eye on.”
In another post to X on Monday, Martin issued a “grammatically incorrect” denouncement of The Associated Press after a judge refused to allow its journalists back into the White House press room. Trump kicked them out for refusing to recognize “The Gulf of America.”
Journalist Sam Stein posted Martin’s mistakes to X, writing, “This is like the 87th most alarming thing from Ed Martin, U.S. Attorney for D.C. But if he’s gonna fondle Trump from the safety of his perch, at least get him an editor.”