May 9th, 2025.

Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin to become U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., the top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital.

A Missouri political operative, with no experience as a prosecutor, Martin defended the January

6th rioters and fired the prosecutors who had worked on their cases, threatened to investigate

Democrats and critics, and hosted a notorious anti-Semite on his podcast. His nomination

proved too much for Senator Tom Tillis, a Republican of North Carolina, who joined all the Democrats

on the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose his confirmation, deadlocking the committee and blocking

the nomination. Trump announced he was

moving Martin into three roles that do not require Senate confirmation. He will become the new

director of the weaponization working group at the Department of Justice, an associate deputy attorney

general, and a pardon attorney.

In these highly important roles, Ed will make sure we finally investigate the weaponization of our government under the Biden regime

and provide much-needed justice for its victims, Trump posted on social media.

To replace Martin, Trump has tapped Fox News Channel host Janine Piro, who is passionately loyal to him.

He noted among her qualifications that she hosted her own Fox News show, Justice with Judge

Janine, for 10 years, and is currently co-host of the Five, one of the highest-rated

shows on television. Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America recalls that the Fox News Channel

took Piro off the air after the 2020 election because of her conspiracy theory filled rants. In emails turned up in the defamation suit

against the Fox News Channel for pushing the lie that voting machines had tainted the election

results, her executive producer called her nuts and a reckless maniac who should never be on live television.

That lawsuit costs the Fox News Channel $787 million.

A similar scenario played out earlier this week,

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