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US Attorney opening probe into Jan. 6 prosecutions is a 'Stop the Steal' co-founder
Last edited Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:45 PM - Edit history (1)
A Trump-appointed prosecutor has opened an internal review of the Department of Justice’s decision to charge hundreds of January 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses in connection with the 2021 Capitol riot, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Ed Martin, acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., asked prosecutors to turn over files, documents, notes, emails, and other information related to the case. Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 defendants, including some who assaulted police officers, hours after he took office.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-eases-on-colombia-tariff-threat-after-president-petro-reluctantly-accepts-deported-migrants-live/ar-AA1xtG1X
Ed Martin, acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., asked prosecutors to turn over files, documents, notes, emails, and other information related to the case. Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 defendants, including some who assaulted police officers, hours after he took office.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-eases-on-colombia-tariff-threat-after-president-petro-reluctantly-accepts-deported-migrants-live/ar-AA1xtG1X
June 7, 2024
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee has hired a prominent supporter of the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” movement, who has since fueled conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, to help craft its 2024 party platform.
Ed Martin, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, was a major proponent of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He gave a speech to Trump supporters in Washington on the eve of the Capitol attack, calling on “die-hard true Americans” to work until their “last breath” to “stop the steal,” according to video posted on social media.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Martin attended Trump’s speech near the White House before joining the crowd in marching to the Capitol and posting about it on social media. Capitol video surveillance footage published by House Republicans shows him arriving on the grounds at around 2:20 p.m. By that time, Trump’s backers had already broken through police lines and stormed the building itself in an attempt to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rnc-hires-prominent-stop-steal-advocate-help-craft-2024-platform-rcna155298
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee has hired a prominent supporter of the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” movement, who has since fueled conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, to help craft its 2024 party platform.
Ed Martin, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, was a major proponent of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He gave a speech to Trump supporters in Washington on the eve of the Capitol attack, calling on “die-hard true Americans” to work until their “last breath” to “stop the steal,” according to video posted on social media.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Martin attended Trump’s speech near the White House before joining the crowd in marching to the Capitol and posting about it on social media. Capitol video surveillance footage published by House Republicans shows him arriving on the grounds at around 2:20 p.m. By that time, Trump’s backers had already broken through police lines and stormed the building itself in an attempt to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rnc-hires-prominent-stop-steal-advocate-help-craft-2024-platform-rcna155298
Ed Martin,
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ed-martin-advocate-jan-6-defendants-interim-chief-us-attorney-dc-rcna188446
...insurrectionist who actually rallied the maga who attacked the Capitol in a speech he gave the day before, inserted by the Defendant-in Chief into the Justice Dept. too not only render his co-conspirators in that violent and ultimately deadly attack on police, property, and members of Congress free from accountability, but to try and prosecute the people who worked to uphold the law.
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Emily A. The Spirit of Jezebel @emzorbit · Jan 12, 2021
Meet Ed Martin from Missouri. He has billed himself as co-founder of Stop the Steal. Early in the Trump administration, he would make appearances on CNN with Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper. Here is Martin with Ali Alexander at a Stop the Steal press conference.
Roger Parloff @rparloff 3h
Acting US Atty Ed Martin, former Stop the Steal activist, starts inquiry of federal prosecutors who approved bringing 18 USC 1512c2 charge against j6 defendants—a theory endorsed by 15 of 16 district court judges and the DC Circuit.
Meet Ed Martin from Missouri. He has billed himself as co-founder of Stop the Steal. Early in the Trump administration, he would make appearances on CNN with Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper. Here is Martin with Ali Alexander at a Stop the Steal press conference.
Roger Parloff @rparloff 3h
Acting US Atty Ed Martin, former Stop the Steal activist, starts inquiry of federal prosecutors who approved bringing 18 USC 1512c2 charge against j6 defendants—a theory endorsed by 15 of 16 district court judges and the DC Circuit.