Politico legal analyst Ankush Khandori had the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend' laughing on Saturday morning when he ridiculed the legal skill of Donald Trump appointee Ed Martin.
After co-host Jonathan Capehart shared a clip of Martin describing his new job at the Department of Justice after his nomination to be the U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. was yanked because even Republicans senators found him unpalatable, Khandori pounced.
In the clip, Martin, who now describes himself as the "captain" of the DOJ's “weaponization” group, told reporters, "There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we'll charge them. But if they can't be charged we will name them and we will name them. And in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are shamed and that's a fact."
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Following that Khandori joked that anyone indicted by Martin should feel lucky because he is a legal lightweight.
After pointing to interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba's plan to take Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (NJ) to trial for assault outside of an ICE detention center, and calling the charges unsupportable, the legal analyst veered back to Martin,
"That is going to a problem for Ed Martin too," he told the panel. "Such as it is, the silver lining for the people in his crosshairs is that it's Ed Martin."
As the panel laughed, he added, "And we've seen over the last few months that he's not particularly good at his job, and he's not particularly good at being a lawyer," which led to more laughter.
"So, honestly, if someone were coming after you, you'd want it to be him," he pointed out.
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