All posts tagged "Ed Martin"

When a prominent election denier with close ties to the Trump administration took to X last week to call for “all hands on deck” in response to a midterm election “crisis,” even many of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters questioned the timing.

Sudden calls for mobilization by Trump allies based on claims that the midterm election is about to be stolen appear to be wearing thin for many hardcore supporters who have marinated in conspiracy theories for the past six years, with mounting frustration at the lack of arrests or official reports validating their belief that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Several election deniers responded to the recent X post by Ed Martin, a former Department of Justice attorney — in which he claimed that “we are in a crisis stage of the midterm elections” because of supposed “foreign interference” and machine vulnerabilities — by pointing out that, by the same logic, the primary election results should also be called into question....

Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin is leaving the Trump administration, adding to a string of high-profile departures.

In a Friday post, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Martin will be leaving "as an Attorney, Director of the Weaponization Working Group, and the United States Attorney of the District of Columbia," and added, "Ed is now leaving to go outside to fight Legal Battles for the upcoming Midterm Election, and Presidential Election of 2028."

Trump appointed Martin in May 2025 and named him director of the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group. Earlier, on Inauguration Day, Trump installed him as interim U.S. Attorney for D.C., then in February of that year nominated him for the permanent post. That nomination collapsed when Republican senators (notably Thom Tillis) wouldn't advance him over his defense of Jan. 6 rioters, so Trump pulled it and moved him into the DOJ roles that don't require Senate confirmation. ...

Ed Martin, the former Trump Justice Department official who served as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington and later led DOJ's "weaponization" working group before being removed from that role earlier this year, posted a message over the weekend that drew sharp pushback from Republicans and journalists alike.

"They killed Charlie. They shot President Trump. They put hundreds into the DC gulag by lying," Martin wrote on X. "It's not a battle of ideas — they want us dead. Know the fight we are in."

Gregg Nunziata, a Republican lawyer and former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, was direct in his response....

The Department of Justice has demoted Ed Martin, a close ally to President Donald Trump, in a move that has stripped him of most of his authority.

Two people who spoke under the condition of anonymity who were familiar with the DOJ move told The Washington Post on Monday that Martin was sidelined and will no longer chair the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, "which was tasked with reviewing special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of Trump and other perceived examples of 'prosecutorial abuse.'" The decision has not yet been announced publicly.

Martin, who has not been at the DOJ for a year, was expected to leave the department entirely, CNN reported. He was initially picked to help implement Trump's key priorities. The Weaponization Group has not released any information, but will apparently meet daily. Trump has been critical that the DOJ has not been active enough to pursue legal action against his political enemies. ...

Prosecutors blindsided "inexperienced Trump loyalists" in a shocking mortgage fraud investigation into whether Trump administration officials shared information to unauthorized people about a criminal probe into a Democratic lawmaker, according to a report.

Christine Bish, a GOP Congressional candidate and California real estate agent, gathered and sent documents to the administration in April, just a few months before President Donald Trump announced a mortgage fraud investigation of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in July, according to The Washington Post Monday.

When Trump posted on Truth Social sharing documents — highlighted in yellow — they were the ones provided by Bish who was surprised to see that they were posted, "but she knew Trump’s post drew from her files because of the highlights marking up the page," the report claimed....

The FBI turned the tables on a California realtor and Republican congressional candidate who was planning to drop an attack on a Democratic lawmaker but instead was grilled about her communication with Federal Housing Agency Director Bill Pulte and DOJ official Ed Martin, according to reports.

Christine Bish thought she was heading to Greenbelt, Maryland, to testify to a grand jury about Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and mortgage fraud allegations — but instead had an unexpected meeting, MS NOW anchor Ana Cabrera said Friday. The grand jury was hearing allegations that Pulte and Martin illegally shared sensitive information in the administration's mortgage fraud probes of Democratic figures and Trump enemies.

"...There is another stunning curveball at the DOJ. Two Trump allies who have spearheaded investigations into Trump's political adversaries, Bill Pulte and Ed Martin, are now themselves under investigation for their handling of those cases, according to two people familiar with the probe," Cabrera reported. ...