President Donald Trump introduced Thursday night he’s appointing Ed Martin to be an Affiliate Deputy Legal professional Normal on the Division of Justice with two jobs, Pardon Attorney and Director of Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group.
The appointment comes simply hours after Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Legal professional for the District of Columbia, the place he has capably served as interim U.S. Legal professional underneath Trump for the previous a number of months, within the face of Republican opposition over his assist for J6ers that was led by Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The brand new positions don’t require Senate affirmation.
Trump’s announcement additionally comes after Martin was spit on by a deranged leftist throughout a sidewalk interview with Newsmax Thursday afternoon stay on air.
The Swamp might have thought they’d a victory over Trump in the present day, however Trump’s duel energy strikes of naming his close friend and ally Judge Jeanine Pirro to replace Martin as interim D.C. U.S. Legal professional (with an eye to Senate nomination) and placing Martin in command of investigating the Biden DOJ’s weaponization towards Americans underneath Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland is bound to have heads exploding throughout the D.C. institution.
From Fact Social:
“Ed Martin has carried out an AMAZING job as interim U.S. Legal professional, and might be shifting to the Division of Justice as the brand new Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Affiliate Deputy Legal professional Normal, and Pardon Legal professional. In these extremely vital roles, Ed will be sure we lastly examine the Weaponization of our Authorities underneath the Biden Regime, and supply a lot wanted Justice for its victims. Congratulations Ed!”
On February 5, Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi introduced the Weaponization Working Group with a two page memo to department employees:
February 5, 2025
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES
FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ~
SUBJECT: RESTORING THE INTEGRITY AND CREDIBILITY OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE1
The Division of Justice should take rapid and overdue steps to revive integrity and credibility with the general public that we’re charged with defending, and to make sure that the Division’s personnel are prepared and keen to faithfully implement the coverage agenda of the duly elected President of the US. These steps are required as a result of, as President Trump identified following his second inauguration, “[t]he prior administration and allies all through the nation engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial energy to upend the democratic course of.” Government Order, Ending the Weaponization of The Federal Authorities (Jan. 20, 2025). Thus, “[t]he American folks have witnessed the earlier administration interact in a scientific marketing campaign towards its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the authorized power of quite a few Federal legislation enforcement businesses and the Intelligence Group towards these perceived political opponents within the type of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and different associated actions.” Id.The reconciliation and restoration of the Division of Justice’s core values can solely be achieved via evaluation and accountability. The Division has already began this course of however way more work is required. Nobody who has acted with a righteous spirit and simply intentions has any trigger for concern about efforts to root out corruption and weaponization. Alternatively, the Division of Justice won’t tolerate abuses of the legal justice course of, coercive conduct, or different types of misconduct. I hereby set up the Weaponization Working Group, which might be led by the Workplace of the Legal professional Normal and supported by the Workplace of the Deputy Legal professional Normal, the Workplace of Authorized Coverage, the Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace for the District of Columbia, and different personnel as needed to attain the goals set forth herein. The Weaponization Working Group will conduct a evaluation the actions of all departments and businesses exercising (…)
(1 This steering just isn’t supposed to, doesn’t, and might not be relied upon to create, any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any get together towards the US, its departments, businesses, or entities, its officers, staff, or brokers, or some other particular person.)
(…) civil or legal enforcement authority of the US over the past 4 years, in session with the heads of such departments and businesses and according to relevant legislation, to determine situations the place a division’s or company’s conduct seems to have been designed to attain political goals or different improper goals quite than pursuing justice or professional governmental goals. The Division of Justice will present quarterly stories to the White Home relating to the progress of the evaluation.
Throughout this evaluation, the Weaponization Working Group will look at, amongst different issues:
• Weaponization by Particular Counsel Jack Smith and his workers, who spent greater than $50 million concentrating on President Trump, and the prosecutors and legislation enforcement personnel who participated within the unprecedented raid on President Trump’s residence.
• Federal cooperation with the weaponization by the Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, New York Legal professional Normal Letitia James, their respective staffs, and different New York officers to focus on President Trump, his household, and his companies.
• The pursuit of improper investigative techniques and unethical prosecutions regarding occasions at or close to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021-as distinct from good religion actions by federal staff merely following orders from superiors-which diverted sources from combatting violent and severe crime and thus, had been pursued on the expense of the protection of residents of the District of Columbia.
• The January 23, 2023, memorandum during which the Federal Bureau of Investigation instructed that sure Catholic non secular practices had been affiliated with violent extremism and legal exercise.
• Prior Justice Division steering, coverage memoranda, and practices in regards to the investigation of oldsters of college kids who expressed honest, good-faith issues at native authorities conferences, together with the October 4, 2021 memorandum of former Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland relating to these points. 2
• Prison prosecutions underneath the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances Act for non-violent protest exercise.• The retaliatory concentrating on, and in some situations legal prosecution, of professional whistle blowers.
(2 For the avoidance of doubt, former Legal professional Normal Garland’s October 4, 2021, Memorandum is hereby rescinded.)
President Trump’s Inauguration Day government order, titled Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government, cited by Bondi reads partly (excerpt):
Sec. 2. Coverage. It’s the coverage of the US to determine and take acceptable motion to appropriate previous misconduct by the Federal Authorities associated to the weaponization of legislation enforcement and the weaponization of the Intelligence Group.
Sec. 3. Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Authorities. (a) The Legal professional Normal, in session with the heads of all departments and businesses of the US, shall take acceptable motion to evaluation the actions of all departments and businesses exercising civil or legal enforcement authority of the US, together with, however not restricted to, the Division of Justice, the Securities and Change Fee, and the Federal Commerce Fee, over the past 4 years and determine any situations the place a division’s or company’s conduct seems to have been opposite to the needs and insurance policies of this order, and put together a report back to be submitted to the President, via the Deputy Chief of Workers for Coverage and the Counsel to the President, with suggestions for acceptable remedial actions to be taken to meet the needs and insurance policies of this order.
(b) The Director of Nationwide Intelligence, in session with the heads of the suitable departments and businesses throughout the Intelligence Group, shall take all acceptable motion to evaluation the actions of the Intelligence Group over the past 4 years and determine any situations the place the Intelligence Group’s conduct seems to have been opposite to the needs and insurance policies of this order, and put together a report back to be submitted to the President, via the Deputy Chief of Workers for Coverage and the Nationwide Safety Advisor, with suggestions for acceptable remedial actions to be taken to meet the needs and insurance policies of this order. The time period “Intelligence Group” has the that means given the time period in part 3003 of title 50, United States Code.
(c) In furtherance of those insurance policies, departments and businesses are directed to adjust to relevant document-retention insurance policies and authorized obligations. Cases of noncompliance with document-retention insurance policies or authorized obligations might be referred to the Legal professional Normal.
Martin thanked the President in a submit on X Thursday night, “Thanks, Mr. President. We’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Thanks, Mr. President.
We’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/7ANlyRMscm
— Ed Martin (@EagleEdMartin) May 8, 2025
