'Even more than strange': Trump DOJ official called out on MSNBC for stalking NY AG's home
The head of the Department of Justice’s “weaponization” team was slammed on Wednesday morning for stalking the home of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ home last week.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Times investigative reporter Michael Schmidt was asked about attorney Edward R. Martin’s decision to lurk outside the home and have his picture taken — an act that reportedly has infuriated his boss, Attorney General Pam Bondi.
After watching a clip of Martin, clad in an overcoat in close to 90-degree weather and joking with people on the street, Schmidt was asked, “This is just strange. Walk us through that scene that we were just witnessing there. Well, I thought it was even more than strange because Ed Martin is a Justice Department prosecutor.”
“Whether how seriously people take him or not, he has been given the investigative powers of the federal government to look into crimes,” he continued. “And for someone like that, in that position, with that extraordinary power, to simply show up at someone's home who he is investigating, there's no evidence yet he had a search warrant, there's no evidence that he had a subpoena with him that day.”
“But to only be there, essentially there having to be a New York Post photographer there who captured him there, we've seen footage that was obtained through a surveillance camera that showed him posing in front of the home and in sort of menacing the individual that he is investigating,” he added. “And it's part of a larger pattern by the Trump administration over the past two months in which they have essentially harnessed the vast intelligence-gathering and law enforcement powers of the federal government to tar the people they don't like, Donald Trump's perceived enemies, and to simply show up at someone's home as a federal investigator i just thought it was, you know, you know, the Trump era, we’ve obviously run out of adjectives, but I thought it was pretty extraordinary.”
“Michael, it sounds like the attorney general, Pam Bondi is not pleased with Mr. Martin's actions here,” he was asked by co-host Willie Geist.
“Yeah, I think in normal times, you know, if someone like a prosecutor like this went out and did this, they would be fired, there would be internal investigations at the Justice Department,” he replied. “There may even be inspector general investigations, but for Bondi and Todd Blanche, I don't think that they have the power to get rid of someone like Ed Martin.”
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