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ABC News reports:
Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the next U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., apologized in a new interview for his past praise of a Jan. 6 rioter who had a lengthy history of antisemitic statements and infamously posted photos of himself dressed as Adolf Hitler.
“I’m sorry,” Ed Martin said in an interview with the Jewish publication Forward. “I denounce everything about what that guy said, everything about the way he talked, and all as I’ve now seen it … At the time, I didn’t know it.”
Martin’s comments come as his nomination faces headwinds in the Senate over his public praise for Jan. 6 rioter Timothy Hale-Cussanelli at a 2024 event at Trump’s Bedminster club in 2024. A Google search of Hale-Cussanelli’s name turns up the series of now-infamous selfies that surfaced following his arrest that show him donning a Hitler mustache and holding his hand over his chest.
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Eagle Ed Martin now claims, as part of his campaign to claim he should remain US Attorney for DC, he was too stupid to figure out that THIS GUY is a Nazi sympathizer.https://t.co/aGrHEg1UQt pic.twitter.com/YIlvmTRJeM
— emptywheel (check) (@emptywheel) April 24, 2025
Interim U.S Attorney @EagleEdMartin tells the Forward that he is sorry for praising Jan. 6 defendant Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who is known for his extreme antisemitic and racist comments.
Martin claims he was unaware of Hale-Cusanelli’s history, which is quite a stretch. https://t.co/zGCUdooZx0
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) April 24, 2025
For one thing, I emailed Martin about Hale-Cusanelli’s past statements for a story in September 2024.
He responded, “NPR, the government-funded propaganda outlet that has lied at every turn about what happened on J6 is at it again.”https://t.co/ThpdKayaiX pic.twitter.com/1C8ssyQ8ve
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) April 24, 2025
Martin also served on the board of the Patriot Freedom Project, a nonprofit that was set up in direct response to the arrest and charges against Hale-Cusanelli.
So he was certainly familiar with the case.
Hale-Cusanelli posted multiple photos with Martin this year pic.twitter.com/yfTiV3lDpR
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) April 24, 2025
Unearthed video: Trump nominee Ed Martin praises Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a neo-Nazi white supremacist and convicted January 6 felon: “Extraordinary man” pic.twitter.com/fQAdsDGBpa
— People For the American Way (@peoplefor) April 11, 2025
Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney in DC, failed to disclose 150+ appearances on Russian state media. pic.twitter.com/q4VoVJmynA
— Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryDems) April 16, 2025
Top DOJ Prosecutor Speaks At J6 Fundraiser For Oath Keepers, Compares Them To WWII Interned Japanese https://t.co/euFPlqS2g2 pic.twitter.com/0tNOr0wwPN
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 5, 2025
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/fCVYBPcj6m
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) February 20, 2025