…Asked about #EdMartin’s pro-#Russia stances & media role, a #WhiteHouse official said: “President #Trump made a brilliant choice in selecting Ed Martin to serve a full, permanent term as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. With a distinguished record of service, Ed is the perfect leader to restore #law & order & make our Nation’s Capital safe & beautiful once again.”

People can disagree over US #ForeignPolicy, said Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear policy & #NationalSecurity expert who has advised US presidents & supports US military #aid to #Ukraine, “but repeatedly helping #Russia advance its #propaganda aims by echoing its views on its state-directed media, that should be #disqualifying.”

#EdMartin’s brief tenure as top federal prosecutor in Washington has stoked controversy. Democrats accuse Martin — a #Trump “Stop the Steal” organizer who has called the 2020 election & #Russia’s 2016 #ElectionInterference investigation “hoaxes” — of violating the #law & legal #ethics in threatening to investigate or prosecute lawmakers, protesters, journalists & others whom he perceives as undermining Trump’s agenda.

#EdMartin’s frequent appearances, reviewed by WaPo, drew rebukes from some #NationalSecurity analysts, who accused him of amplifying anti-American #propaganda on Russian outlets that the #State Dept last year said had moved beyond #disinformation to engage in covert #influence activities aimed at undermining democracies worldwide for President Vladimir #Putin’s regime.

#EdMartin did not disclose the appearances last month on a #Senate #Judiciary Cmte questionnaire, which asks nominees to list all media interviews. Analysis of television archives suggests he went on #RT & #Sputnik more often than on any major cable network during that span.

But as a *conservative* activist & fmr #Missouri Republican ofcl, #EdMartin appeared >150 times on #RT & #Sputnik — networks funded & directed by the Russian govt — as a guest commentator from August 2016 to April 2024, acc/to a search of their websites & the #InternetArchive’s database of TV broadcasts.

Hours before #Trump announced US missile strikes on #Syria in response to a chemical attack that killed 90 civilians in April 2017, Ed Martin said on the Russian state television network #RT America that Syrian President Bashar al-#Assad might not be to blame. Instead, Martin told viewers, the situation was “engineered” in Washington “by the people that want war in Syria.”

@dedicto

Still stunning when I talk to Americans about how http://elections.ca even just exists.

Like, they don't know that actual political parties running elections is inherently corrupt and is not even close to democracy.

We are in a federal election now, and no one is going to #hangingchad us or #jan6 us.

This isn't brain surgery.

2/ “The reason for Sgamma’s decision was unclear. But it comes after the investigative group Documented on Tuesday released a 2021 letter in which Sgamma wrote that she was “disgusted” by Trump “spreading misinformation” about the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.”

JV #Vance once again speaks out of turn and tells #Greenland that it will be "up to the people of Greenland" to first "vote for independence [from Denmark]", followed by "a vote on whether or not they wish to join the U.S. with its obvious advantages."

#OrangeHitler has made no such offer/promise.

If you recall, it was Vance who assured everyone that #NaziDon would NEVER just pardon all 1,500 #Jan6 rioters. That the "violent" ones will remain in jail. #DoTheyEverTalkToEachOther?

Trump has now floated the idea of paying #reparations to the #Jan6 insurrectionists.

This underscores the fact that Trump has not really pardoned the #J6 convicts so much as he has absolved them of all culpability. IOW, there was no criminality here. Very legal, very cool patriotism only.

The real injustice, Trump asserts, was done TO them.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/politics/video/trump-compensation-pardoned-january-6-rioters-digvid

Murphy is a veteran prosecutor who previously worked for the Bronx DA in NY. In 2018, during #Trump's first term, he joined the US Atty's Office in Puerto Rico & worked on drug trafficking & illegal gun prosecutions. Most recently, he served in the #DOJ's Capitol Siege Section, which prosecuted >1,500 people for crimes stemming from the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol [all of whom were pardoned by #felon47].