Ed Martin, who is President Donald Trump's nominee to be the United States Attorney for Washington, D.C., was a regular guest on Russian state media programs for the span of eight years.
According to a tally by the Washington Post, Martin appeared on Russian state outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik more than 150 times from 2016 until 2024.
What's more, Martin during his appearances would frequently parrot Kremlin talking points about international affairs.
"Hours before President Donald Trump announced U.S. 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," reports the Post. "In early 2022, Martin told an interviewer on the same arm of RT’s global network that 'there’s no evidence' of a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s borders, criticizing U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia’s security concerns."
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And even when he's not appearing on Russian state TV, the Post writes, Martin has heaped praise upon Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In one article written in December last year, just before Trump nominated him as D.C. interim U.S. attorney, Martin criticized the “mediocre” American men who “despise figures like Vladimir Putin" because "he reminds them of their inadequacies.”