Trump replaces controversial US legal selection Ed Martin: “Disappointing”

Washington – President Trump announced on Thursday that he will replace the preliminary US lawyer Ed MartinHis controversial choice to be the best public prosecutor in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Trump later called Fox News Moderator Jeanine Pirro in the role.

Mr. Trump said reporters in the Oval Office that Martin apparently had enough support in the Senate that were necessary for the confirmation and he hoped to find another place for him in the Ministry of Justice. Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican in North Carolina, said on Tuesday that he would not vote to advance Martin's appointment as a complete Senate.

“I was disappointed. A lot of people were disappointed, but it sometimes works,” said Trump. “He was not rejected, but we had the feeling that it would be very difficult. And we have someone we will announce in the next two days who will be great.”

Mr. Trump said Martin in the Ministry of Justice as deputy attorney in general and pardon lawyer, a key role that usually advises the president about how he uses his mercy power. The President said Martin also acted as director of the “Weapon Labor Group” of the Ministry of Justice “a committee founded by General Prosecutor Pam Bondi to” check “the activities of the bid era, including the investigation into Mr. Trump, Capitol Randalers and others.

Martin, an activist “Stop the theft”, was appointed to the post on an intermediate basis and can serve until May 20. In the role he supervised a Cleaning of the public prosecutor Those who came on criminal cases that came from January 6, 2021 attack the US Capitol.

Tillis said his concerns about Martin were related to the Capitol uprising, and added that he “had no tolerance for someone who entered the building on January 6th, and here was probably most of the friction”.

“If Mr. Martin, as a US lawyer for a district, presented a district except the district on January 6th, the protests would probably support him,” said Tillis.

The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, a Republican in South Dakota, said early this week that Tillis's opposition stated that Martin would probably not get out of the Senate Justice Committee.

Alan he And Kaia Hubbard contributed to this report.