{"id":9111,"date":"2025-05-12T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-hes-pulling-ed-martins-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:21:46","slug":"trump-says-hes-pulling-ed-martins-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-hes-pulling-ed-martins-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he&#8217;s pulling Ed Martin&#8217;s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday he will withdraw the nomination of Ed Martin, a longtime champion of Jan. 6 defendants, to be the District of Columbia&rsquo;s top federal prosecutor. &ldquo;We have somebody else that will be great,&rdquo; Trump told reporters. &ldquo;We have somebody else who we&rsquo;ll be announcing.&rdquo; Support for Martin among Capitol Hill Republicans has faltered in recent days&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/08\/congress\/trump-eyes-withdrawing-ed-martin-nom-00335713\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Thursday he will withdraw the nomination of Ed Martin, a longtime champion of Jan. 6 defendants, to be the District of Columbia&rsquo;s top federal prosecutor. &ldquo;We have somebody else that will be great,&rdquo; Trump told reporters. &ldquo;We have somebody else who we&rsquo;ll be announcing.&rdquo; Support for Martin among Capitol Hill Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","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=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}