Even in an administration full of wingnut crackpots, acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin stands out for the bad company he keeps. And that is why Ed Martin is malaka of the week.
Before his appointment as acting US Attorney, Ed Martin was best known as a MAGA troll and Dipshit Insurrection defense lawyer. His jam seems to be threatening Democrats with specious prosecution. He has sent letters but taken no action against such so-called targets as Chuck Schumer who’s only guilty of being too mild-mannered to continue as minority leader.
Malaka Martin is a staple on Russian State TV, a fact he initially failed to disclose to the Senate. He’s allegedly sorry now that he’s fessed up but it’s one reason why his nomination as permanent US Attorney is in deep shit and sinking fast.
North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis says that he’ll vote against Martin in committee thereby killing the nomination. I’ll believe it when I see it. Timid Thom struck a brave pose against Pete Hegseth before flip flopping and voting aye. Stay tuned.
I could write a treatise about all the dreadful things Martin has done since taking office, but as I said yesterday I’m focusing on the big picture, so I’ll post this TPM search link to his egregious official malakatude in lieu of the details. Instead, I’ll zero in on his relationship with the creep depicted alongside Malaka Martin in the featured image.
His name is Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a pardoned Dipshit Insurrectionist, rabid anti-Semite, and Fuhrer fan. Martin was an admirer of this Hitler-looking motherfucker until it imperiled his nomination. Check out this answer he gave to written questions:
“Sen. Dick Durbin (Illinois), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that in answering roughly 500 written questions by committee members, “Mr. Martin makes a number of false statements that are easily debunked and dodges at least 80 questions outright,” such as by stating he did not “recall” answers more than 39 times.
Among questions Durbin posed was whether Martin had seen photos of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendant, posing as Hitler while wearing a short mustache. Martin called Hale-Cusanelli “an extraordinary man and extraordinary leader” at an awards ceremony put on by Martin’s nonprofit group on Aug. 14 at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
“No,” Martin responded, adding that he found Hale-Cusanelli’s views “abhorrent and deplorable. I condemn his comments and pictures in the strongest possible terms. Additionally, I condemn all antisemitism in any form.”
In another time, that would be considered a boilerplate answer but we live in an era in which MAGA has given neo-Nazis a green light while claiming to be anti anti-Semitism:
“But in an interview Martin conducted with Hale-Cusanelli that was posted on Rumble in July, Martin told him that prosecutors “leaked a photo to say, ah, look, these people, these people, MAGA people are antisemitic. And the photo was of you; I’ve heard you say it before, you know, you had like a mustache shaved in such a way that you looked vaguely like Hitler and making jokes about it. Again, you know, not your best moment, but not illegal.”
Not his best moment? Really, Ed? Is that the best you can do? In a word: Pitiful.
I’m usually not a fan of the whole guilt by association thing. However, I make an exception for those who pal around with pardoned insurrectionists who cosplay as Hitler. And that is why Ed Martin is malaka of the week.
The last word goes to Bad Company:
I love me some Paul Rodgers.
UPDATE: Ed Martin’s nomination to be permanent USA has been withdrawn. He’ll take his malakatude elsewhere.