{"id":8985,"date":"2025-05-08T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-hints-at-pulling-ed-martins-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:19:14","slug":"trump-hints-at-pulling-ed-martins-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-hints-at-pulling-ed-martins-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hints at pulling Ed Martin&#8217;s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump suggested he is withdrawing the controversial nomination of Ed Martin to be the District of Columbia&#8217;s top federal prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have somebody else that will be great,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday. \u201cWe have somebody else who we\u2019ll be announcing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin had come under siege in recent days after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he would not support him, citing the nominee&#8217;s comments about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his work in representing alleged rioters. That announcement from Tillis, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, presented a major obstacle to Martin\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also suggested he would place Martin somewhere else in his administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump suggested he is withdrawing the controversial nomination of Ed Martin to be the District of Columbia&#8217;s top federal prosecutor. \u201cWe have somebody else that will be great,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday. \u201cWe have somebody else who we\u2019ll be announcing.\u201d Martin had come under siege in recent days after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}