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Alleged misuse of state offices

In August 2007, a reporter for the Springfield News-Leader filed to gain access to emails by Ed Martin, Blunt's chief of staff, under the state's Sunshine Law. He was investigating whether Martin had used his office to try to influence anti-abortion groups in relation to opposition to state Attorney General Jay Nixon, a Democrat. Nixon was expected to run against Blunt in the 2008 gubernatorial election. Martin responded on September 4 that he had no such emails, but the reporter later said someone gave him a copy of one, showing that Martin's claim was false.[60]

At the same time, "Blunt spokesman Rich Chrismer insisted to reporters that 'there is no statute or case that requires the state to retain individual's e-mails as a public record.' Blunt himself told reporters that his staffers would not be required to save e-mails for three years," although this was "widely understood to be state law" (known as the Sunshine Law).[60] It was later revealed that Scott Eckersley, a deputy chief counsel, provided copies of language in the state employees' handbook to general counsel Henry Herschel on September 10 about this state requirement to save such materials. Eckersley was soon locked out of his office by order of Martin.[60]

On September 28, 2007, the governor's office fired Eckersley, a political appointee. It distributed packets of emails and documents to four major newspapers in Missouri to support its claims that the attorney had made inappropriate use of a state computer.[61][62] Eckersley said he was terminated for other reasons, related to trying to ensure employees complied with the state's email retention policy under its Sunshine Law. In the first known "whistleblower" case against the Missouri state government, Eckersley filed suit for wrongful termination and defamation of character against Blunt and his senior appointees.[62]

Due to concerns expressed to his office in November 2007 that there were actions underway to overwrite email tapes and the governor's office was not complying with the Sunshine Law, AG Jay Nixon appointed special investigators on November 15 to study what was taking place.[63] Nixon's team had to go to court in the spring of 2008 to get a ruling on whether the governor's office was required to comply with their requests for information, at the expense of the state. Through various legal maneuverings, the court ruled in favor of the investigation, appointing two Special Attorneys General to lead it. The governor never was deposed. Eventually the completion of the investigation was extended to February 2009 because of the volume of materials that needed to be reviewed.[64] The Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Associated Press filed petitions in August 2008 as intervening plaintiffs to gain preliminary and injunctive relief, declaratory judgment that the emails were public records under the state Sunshine Law, and access to the emails under discussion.[65]

Martin resigned in November 2007 as chief of staff, without explanation. Blunt's General Counsel Henry Herschel left soon after. On January 22, 2008, Blunt surprised voters, "staffers and supporters" by announcing he would not run for another term,[60] although he reportedly already had millions of dollars in a war chest for his upcoming campaign.[1] More than a year later and after Blunt had left office, "An investigation by state officials later found that the governor's office failed to properly disclose Mr. Martin's emails."[66] This investigation, which cost the state $2 million, found that Martin had illegally destroyed some emails, in violation of the state's open government or Sunshine Law. It also found he had used his office to influence outside groups against opponents of Blunt.[67]

After a year-long legal effort, in November 2008, the Kansas City Star and St. Louis Post Dispatch reported having gained access to 60,000 pages of Blunt administration emails. Their analysis showed that Ed Martin, former chief of staff to Blunt, had used his state office to try to influence outside political groups, among other internal problems. In addition to trying to encourage opposition to AG Jay Nixon, Martin worked with political groups to oppose the appointment of Patricia Breckenridge to an open seat on the Missouri Supreme Court. (Blunt has supported her and she later gained the seat.)[60] Emails indicate that Leonard Leo was one of the influences corresponding with Martin, as a part of a strategy to dismantle the Missouri Plan.[68]

On May 22, 2009, the Missouri Attorney General's office announced that Eckersley's lawsuit against Blunt and others had been settled for $500,000.[69][70][71]

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[### Trump's Pardon Attorney Mulls Clemency for Fake Electors ...

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Jun 4, 2025 — Blocked from continuing as US attorney, Ed Martin charges ahead in new role.

The Trump administration’s new chief pardon attorney is considering a plan to grant clemency to dozens of so-called fake electors who aided Donald Trump in his scheme to overturn the 2020 election, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.

Ed Martin—the failed US attorney nominee whom Trump recently named to a different high-level role in the Justice Department—is working on a plan to recommend federal pardons for all these reputed Trump electors, despite the fact that none have been charged with federal crimes. The move would be part of the larger campaign to remove the stain of Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, an effort that has included the president’s mass pardons of January 6 rioters.

The person familiar with the plan said these possible pardons have not yet been approved by the White House. But they are part of a swirl of activity by Martin, a formerfar-right activist and “Stop the Steal” organizer.

Less than three weeks into his new job, Martin has already played a role in 17 pardons and eight commutations signed by Trump. Among the recipients was a convicted tax cheat whose mother is a major Trump fundraiser, who attended a $1 million dinner with the president a few weeks earlier. Martin, meanwhile, has sat for a of interviews, mostly with right-wing venues, in which he has outlined plans to investigate matters such as the conduct of January 6 prosecutions, allegationsthat then-President Joe Biden improperly issued pardons using an autopen, unspecified claims about Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the prosecution of militia members convicted of plotting in 2020 to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Martin’s new influence is a turnabout from a few weeks ago, when the death of his nomination as US attorney for the District of Columbia—a job Martin had been performing on an acting basis since Trump’s inauguration—marked an embarrassing defeat for the president. Martin’s reputation had been damaged by scrutiny of his ties to an alleged Nazi sympathizer and his apparently false statements downplaying that relationship. Republican senators also appeared concerned about his threats to use prosecutorial power to punish universities, environmental groups, medical journals, Democratic lawmakers, and Trump critics.

Martin now appears even better positioned to wield DOJ power to advance Trump’s agenda and exact political retribution. That’s because Trump, after withdrawing Martin’s US attorney nomination, named him associate deputy attorney general, pardon attorney, and head of the so-called weaponization working group set up at the DOJ to target what the president claims were politicized prosecutions and other abuses during the Biden administration. None of these roles require Senate confirmation.

The elector scheme was a key component of Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential race. Citing bogus election fraud claims, Trump wanted Mike Pence—who, as vice president, oversaw Congress’ electoral vote certification—to reject the legitimate results in favor of pro-Trump slates of electors from seven key battleground states. As part of this plot, Trump backers in five of those states falsely claimed to be the legitimate electors. This has led to state criminal charges against against more than 40 people, including fake electors and other people involved in the effort. Most of those those cases are still pending. (In two other states Biden won—Pennsylvania and New Mexico—Trump supporters signed documents saying they would be the legitimate electors only if the election results were overturned; none of those individuals were charged with crimes.)

Federal pardons for fake electors would have no official bearing on the state criminal cases. But Martin hopes the pardons would serve a “symbolic” value in declaring the electors blameless and maybe even help sway courts, the source familiar with the plan said. The pardons would be in sync with Trump’s denial of wrongdoing in the federal case in which he was charged with crimes related to the fake electors plot. The Justice Department ended that case against Trump after he was reelected president in November.

The elector clemency effort would be part of an broader initiative to present Trump with the option of issuing numerous symbolic pardons, many of them posthumous, the source said. For example, Martin might urge Trump to pardon John F. Kennedy supporters who in 1960 signed paperwork saying they were Hawaii’s electors when a recount left the actual winner of the state uncertain. Kennedy ultimately won Hawaii, and the electors were accepted as the state’s legitimate slate. The Kennedy electors, of course, were never charged with state or federal crimes. Pardoning them now would be meaningless, except as a gesture to boost the claim by Trump supporters that the fake electors of 2020 similarly did nothing wrong.

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Martin’s plan for fake electors, even dead ones, to receive largely symbolic pardons is an example of the publicity-heavy approach he is taking as he melds his pardon and weaponization jobs into a combined role of all-out partisan advocacy.

“We’ll be a little bit more outward-facing in terms of talking about what’s happening,” Martin said at a May press conference outlining his plans. “The law can be taken up, but the starting point is to make sure that the public sees that we’re doing it.”

This sounds like a plan to publicly launch investigations that please the president, even if few people in the task force’s crosshairs ultimately face charges—presumably because few have committed actual crimes. Such efforts would violate a DOJ tradition, and written rules, that say the department should pursue justice by prosecuting crimes in court rather than through public relations offensives.

But Martin appears unconcerned. “If they can be charged, we’ll charge them,” he said at the press conference. “But if they can’t be charged, we will name them…and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed.”

To aid his probes, Martin is hoping to add to the weaponization team a handful of FBI whistleblowers who testified before Congress about what they said were problems with the bureau’s investigation of January 6 attackers. Martin seemingly alluded to this plan during a recent interview with conservative podcast host Breanna Morello, who specifically mentioned Steve Friend and Garret O’Boyle—FBI agents reprimanded after speaking out on the matter—as potential additions to the task force. “You’re gonna be happy, Breanna,” Martin responded. “And you’re gonna deserve a lot of credit…We gotta bring them in.”

Martin has said the weaponization group will investigate the DOJ’s use of a specific criminal statute against numerous January 6 rioters. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that this provision, which can carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, did not apply to most of those defendants. Martin has previously called for jailing whoever “ordered” the use of this obstruction statute, 18 USC 1512. While leading the DC US attorney’s office, he opened an internal investigation into his subordinates’ use of the statute in the Capitol riot prosecutions. He Tucker Carlson recently that the weaponization group will continue that effort, aiming to determine “who made the 1512 call.”

Martin is also reportedly personally reviewing a pardon request by Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2022. Rhodes is one of 14 members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who received commutations, but not pardons, from Trump on January 20. Roughly 1,600 other January 6 convicts and defendants received full pardons at the time.

Martin has used his X feed to cheer on Trump’s pardons, and he has been notably vocal about his efforts to encourage Trump to use the pardon power to reward political allies. Last week, Trump pardoned Scott Jenkins, a Republican sheriff and Trump supporter from Virginia who was convicted in December of accepting bribes in exchange for giving law enforcement powers to a businessmen. Martin quickly made his own view clear. Although Jenkins’ prosecution had no obvious link to partisan politics, Martin celebrated it by posting: “No MAGA left behind.”

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Martin's attempted DoJ harassment of Sandy Hook school shooting victims' advocate

Shouldn't we add information about this incident to this Wikipedia article? It seems rather notable.

:{{Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has ordered a senior U.S. Justice Department official to drop an inquiry into a retired FBI agent's involvement in a defamation lawsuit involving Alex Jones's conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

Ed Martin Jr., who leads the Justice Department’s “weaponization working group,” sent a letter dated Sept. 15, 2025 to the Sandy Hook families' lawyer asking for information about former FBI agent William Aldenberg, who responded to the 2012 school shooting and was a plaintiff in the lawsuit, along with victims' relatives, that led to a $1.4 billion judgment against Jones for calling the massacre a hoax.*}:}:

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-justice-department-official-ordered-drop-inquiry-sandy-125904544

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Yes, absolutely should be included. 172.58.10.83 (talk) 18:34, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

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Wikipedia must stop being one-sided AND correct its biases when it comes to FACTS, especially regarding claims of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and the results of the 2020 United States presidential election "hoaxes". The FACT is the Russian interference claims by Democrats was absolutely FALSE. Official sources and investigations have confirmed two main points regarding the Steele dossier:

The Special Counsel Robert Mueller's separate investigation did not rely on the dossier for its findings or any criminal charges, and many of the issues it uncovered were not mentioned in the dossier. While the dossier's core claims about a "well-developed conspiracy of coordination" were not substantiated. Dan Staudacher (talk) 08:03, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

edward Robert Martin Jr. (born March 19, 1970)[1] is an American conservative activist,[2][3][4] politician, and lawyer who has served as the United States pardon attorney since May 2025. He previously served as interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia from January to May 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.[5] He was chair of the Missouri Republican Party from 2013 to 2015.[6]

Martin has a history of incendiary claims and legal and ethical controversies.[7][8] Having worked as an organizer of Stop the Steal rallies, he served as an attorney and advocate for January 6 defendants. He called claims of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and the results of the 2020 United States presidential election "hoaxes".[9]

A member of the Republican Party, Martin served as chief of staff for Missouri Governor Matt Blunt from 2006 until November 2007.[10][11] He was the party's nominee for Missouri's 3rd congressional district in 2010,[12] losing to incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan,[13] and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Missouri attorney general in 2012.[14] The president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a splinter group from Eagle Forum,[15][16] Martin served on the 2024 RNC Platform Committee.[17][18]

In December 2024, Trump announced his intention to nominate Martin for chief of staff for the Office of Management and Budget, before appointing him instead as the interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia in January 2025.[19][20] This made him the first U.S. attorney for D.C. in at least fifty years to be appointed without experience as a judge or a federal prosecutor.[21] In May 2025, his Senate confirmation appeared unlikely to pass, after Senate Republican Thom Tillis announced his opposition, leaving Martin with too few votes to be reported out of the Judiciary Committee.[22][23] On May 8, 2025, Trump announced that he would withdraw Martin's nomination,[24][25] and later that day, he announced Martin was to be replaced as the interim appointee by Jeanine Pirro.[26]

On May 13, 2025, Martin announced he would serve as pardon attorney, vowing to review the Biden administration's outgoing pardons, as well as investigate what he called "weaponization" of the justice system.[27][28] That month, he was appointed to lead the Weaponization Working Group within the Department of Justice. In February 2026, The Washington Post reported that Martin had been demoted as the working group's chair.[29]

Early life and education

Martin was born in New York City and grew up in the Whitehouse Station section of Readington Township, New Jersey, the middle of three children of a lawyer father and nurse mother.[1][30] Following his graduation from St. Peter's Preparatory School,[31] Martin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he majored in English.[30] While at Holy Cross he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study water purification in Indonesia for a year and earned a diploma in Indonesian studies from the University of Washington during a study abroad his senior year. Leaving Indonesia, Martin next attended Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, on a Rotary International scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.).[30]

While in Rome, Martin decided to attend law school and was accepted to Saint Louis University School of Law. While at law school, Martin attended a Thanksgiving dinner with Pope John Paul II in 1997. Martin received an invitation to the dinner because he served as the sole youth representative expert of the Synod of the Bishops on the Americas.[32] He studied health-care ethics, obtaining a Juris Doctor degree and a master's.[33]

After law school, Martin worked first as director of the Human Rights Office for the Archdiocese of St. Louis.[30]

Legal work

As an attorney in private practice, Martin specialized in differing commercial and pro bono cases. Martin did legal work for the Institute for Justice, Human Action Network, Bryan Cave, LLP, Americans United for Life, Martin Simmonds, LLC, and formed his own law practice, Ed Martin Law Firm, LLC. In addition, Martin served as law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit under Pasco Bowman II.[34]

In 2005 while working for Americans United for Life, Martin represented two Illinois pharmacists who sought relief from an administrative rule requiring Illinois pharmacists doing public business to dispense a certain contraceptive, levonorgestrel, also known as "Plan B" or the "morning after pill", under the state's health plan. They argued that such distribution violated their religious rights of conscience.[35] Martin appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss the case with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.[36] The court sided with Martin and the plaintiffs, agreeing that the Administrative Rule violated the Rights of Conscience Act; it granted the plaintiffs a permanent injunction.[37]

In 2006 while doing pro bono work for the Institute for Justice and the Human Action Network, Martin represented a small business owner who sold caskets and funeral supplies at discounted prices. In an effort to regulate abuses in the funeral business, the State of Missouri required vendors of caskets to have a funeral director's license. Martin and other attorneys argued that the government should not prevent the businessman from selling caskets at a discount and helping people avoid inflated costs of purchasing a casket from funeral homes. Eventually, the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors sided with the small business owner.[38]

Prior to his appointment as interim attorney for the District of Columbia, Martin represented three January 6 defendants, including a member of the Proud Boys who pleaded guilty to felony charges. On January 6, he posted on social media from the Capitol area, describing the crowd as "rowdy" but "nothing out of hand".[39] Before his appointment, Martin had been an active supporter of January 6 defendants as legal counsel. His foundation hosted a 2024 banquet at Trump's Bedminster golf club honoring Nazi sympathizer Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a convicted Capitol riot participant, as an "extraordinary man". In April 2025, he apologized, claiming he was not aware of the full extent of Hale-Cusanelli's views.[40]

Political career

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In 2005, Missouri Governor Matt Blunt appointed Martin as chairman of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners.[30] In August 2006, Blunt appointed Martin as his chief of staff.[41][42] While serving as Blunt's chief of staff, Martin was linked to the controversial firing of Scott Eckersley, then Deputy General Counsel for Blunt. In the summer of 2007, Martin's office had resisted providing his emails to an investigative reporter from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader, who was investigating whether Martin used his office to influence outside groups against political opponents. Martin claimed there were no emails that pertained to the issue. A Blunt spokesman said the administration did not have a policy of retaining emails, although the state Sunshine Law requiring retention for 3 years is widely known.[43]

The administration claimed it had fired Eckersley because he had violated internal policies. He filed a lawsuit against Martin and Blunt for his firing, saying he had been trying to enforce the state law for retention of emails.[44] Several major media outlets filed suit to gain access to Martin's and other emails of the administration. Martin resigned as chief of staff in November 2007, followed by Blunt's General Counsel, Henry Herschel.[43]

After a year-long battle to gain access, in November 2008, the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch analyzed and reported on 60,000 pages of emails obtained from the administration. They found that Martin had used his state office in 2007 improperly to encourage opposition to Attorney General Jay Nixon among anti-abortion groups, as the Democrat Nixon was likely to oppose Blunt in the next election.[43] He had also pressured political appointees of state agencies to criticize Nixon's handling of some issues as AG. In addition, the newspapers reported that Martin had encouraged outside groups to oppose the nomination of Patricia Breckenridge to an open seat on the Missouri Supreme Court, although Blunt supported her.[43] On May 22, 2009, the Missouri Attorney General's Office announced that Eckersley's lawsuit against Blunt and others had been settled for $500,000.[45][46]

In January 2008, Blunt surprised supporters by announcing he would not seek a second term.[47] In February 2008 Governor Blunt appointed Martin as a member of the Missouri State Park Advisory Board, a position he held until April 2011.[48]

Following Blunt's leaving office, the state completed its own investigation of possible violations of the Sunshine Law under Blunt and Martin. It found that the governor's office failed to properly disclose Mr. Martin's emails.[49] This investigation, which cost the state $2 million, found that Martin had illegally destroyed some emails, in violation of the state's open government or Sunshine Law.[50]

Advocacy projects

American Issues Project

In 2008, Martin founded the American Issues Project, a political group financed by Harold Simmons that ran anti-Senator Barack Obama TV ads during the 2008 United States presidential campaign.[51] Martin appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the group's commercials.[52]

Martin was executive director of the Missouri Club for Growth, a PAC to support certain candidates financially, and president of the Missouri Roundtable for Life, a pro-life, non-profit group.[53] He also founded Term Limits for Missouri in 2010,[54] which works to pass laws for term limits on all statewide elective positions in the state.

The Eagle Forum

In 2015, Martin was appointed as President of the Eagle Forum, a conservative advocacy group founded by Phyllis Schlafly, though he was removed from the position in 2016.[55] A lawsuit was subsequently filed by a majority of the Eagle Forum's board, including the youngest daughter of Phyllis Schlafly, Anne Schlafly Cori, to bar Martin from any association with the group.[55] During the course of the lawsuit, Martin was found liable for defamation and false light against Cori.[55]

ProPublica in 2025 reported that after the presiding judge John Barberis issued a ruling adverse to Martin, Martin in 2016 secretly influenced Schlafly's employee Priscilla Gray to write Facebook comments criticizing the presiding judge, John Barberis, on Barberis' Facebook page.[56] According to ProPublica, despite Martin being a lead defendant, Martin emailed Gray to: "Call what [Barberis] did unfair and rigged over and over", "Go slow and steady", and "Make it organic", as he urged Gray to write: "That is not justice but a rigged system … Shame on you and this broken legal system.".[56]

Stop the Steal

:{Prior to his appointment as interim attorney for Columbia in 2025, Martin had been involved with the Stop the Steal movement. He has said that the 2020 election was "rigged" and that Trump "won the election".[57]

He spoke at a rally on January 5, 2021, where he claimed "What they're stealing is not just an election. It's our future and it's our republic."[57] He served on the board of the Patriot Freedom Project, which raised money to support January 6 defendants and their families.[58] He was subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee but did not testify.[59]}:

Martin has been described as a conspiracy theorist by the legal news site Above the Law, which has detailed his work promoting the Stop the Steal conspiracy theory.[60] Glenn Thrush of The New York Times described Martin as a "far-right election denier."[61]

Books and television

In 2016, Martin co-authored The Conservative Case for Trump with Phyllis Schlafly and Brett M. Decker.[62]

Martin was a CNN contributor in 2017.[63] From 2016 to 2024, Martin appeared more than 150 times on RT America and Sputnik, both of which are Russian state-controlled news agencies. None of these appearances was disclosed to the Senate on a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire asking for a list of all media interviews.[64] He has often appeared in far-right media.[57] Nine days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine he said there was no evidence of military buildup on Ukraine’s borders and criticized US officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia security concerns.[65]

Political campaigns

2010 U.S. congressional election

See also: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri § District 3

In 2010, Martin challenged Democratic incumbent Russ Carnahan. Carnahan defeated Martin.

2012 attorney general election

See also: 2012 Missouri Attorney General election

Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2012 against incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. After U.S. Congressman Todd Akin and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman filed to run, Martin dropped out of the race to run from the newly redrawn Missouri's 2nd congressional district, Akin's congressional seat.[66] On January 26, 2012, Martin announced he was dropping out of the Congressional race, and filed to run for Missouri attorney general against incumbent Democrat Chris Koster.[14][67]

2018 Fairfax County Board of Supervisors

In 2018, Martin moved to Great Falls, Virginia, where he ran unsuccessfully for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.[68]

Chair of the Missouri Republican Party

On January 5, 2013, Martin was elected chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, defeating incumbent chair David Cole and former Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham.[6] Noting that state Republican Party officials were often more conservative than most of their members, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorialized that Martin was an unfortunate choice for the GOP. They commented on his having cost the state "taxpayers about $2 million for an investigation spurred by his destruction of public records when he was chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt."[50]

As party chairman, Martin criticized advertising in the Republican primary campaign for the 2014 United States Senate election in Mississippi, which was marked by race-based ads appearing to encourage Democrats to vote in support of candidate Thad Cochran, as well as robo-calls to African-American voters thought to be made by his opponent Chris McDaniel's campaign, which were derogatory to President Barack Obama.[69] It was reported that Cochran and allies were "looking to increase voter turnout across the state, particularly among African Americans and Democrats who had not voted in the June 3 primary."[69] Martin criticized Republican candidates' use of attack ads that referenced an opponent's race. "I don't know how that can be allowed in the Republican party," Martin says. "If it is, we have no credibility, we have no moral standing."[69] In addition, Martin made a motion to censure RNC member Henry Barbour at the annual RNC August summer meeting in Chicago. This effort did not succeed, but the issue was discussed in member meetings.[70]

Interim US attorney for the District of Columbia

See also: Timeline of Wikipedia–U.S. government conflicts § April 2025: D.C. U.S. Attorney's letter questioning WMF's 501(c)(3) status, and Cory Mills § Alleged assault

Martin was appointed as the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20, 2025, minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as the forty-seventh president.[71]

In his first weeks as interim US attorney, Martin made significant personnel changes, dismissing approximately thirty federal prosecutors who had worked on January 6 cases who were on probationary status. He eliminated the Capitol siege prosecution unit and imposed a hiring and promotions freeze. He also replaced the office's top assistant US attorney with a Republican former Senate staffer.[68]

Martin ordered top supervisors to conduct internal reviews of the office's handling of January 6 prosecutions following President Trump's mass pardons, particularly focusing on obstruction charges that Trump had criticized. He dubbed this the "1512 Project," referring to the section of law covering obstruction charges. He also launched an inquiry involving Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.[21][68][39]

As interim US attorney, Martin initiated an internal investigation into the use of obstruction charges in January 6 cases, characterizing their application as a "great failure". He faced scrutiny for signing a motion to dismiss charges against Joseph Padilla, a January 6 defendant whom he had previously represented as defense counsel. The action drew criticism from legal experts, who noted Justice Department regulations require lawyers to recuse themselves from cases involving former clients for at least one year.[72]

The letter sent by Martin to the Wikimedia Foundation

In February 2025, Martin publicly pledged his office's support to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was charged with recommending overhauls to the federal bureaucracy. Martin posted a letter on X promising to "pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people". This statement came amid controversy surrounding DOGE's actions at various federal agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development, where DOGE representatives removed top security officials who had refused to grant them access to restricted spaces.[21]

On February 24, 2025, Martin was criticized for referring to himself and fellow United States attorneys as "President Trumps' lawyers" in a post on X.[73][74] In March 2025, he was criticized for telling the dean of Georgetown University’s law school, William Treanor, that he would not hire anyone who was "affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI."[75]

On February 28, Martin demoted prosecutors including Jason McCullough, who had been the lead prosecutor in the sedition case against Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.[76][77] Martin said he would not prosecute Tarrio for allegedly assaulting a woman the previous month at a protest. He further said that the police officer who arrested Tarrio should be reprimanded. "I believe he [the officer] was itching to arrest a [January] Sixer," Martin alleged.[76] Prosecutors determined that it would be difficult to overcome a potential claim of self-defense by Tarrio, and the decision not to prosecute was consistent with other decisions in the past.[78] On March 13, 2025, representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Justice Department's inspector general to launch an investigation into Martin. Raskin wrote: "In seven short weeks, the list of Mr. Martin's constitutionally, legally, and ethically indefensible actions have grown exponentially."[79]

In April 2025, Martin sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation. In the letter, Martin accused the Foundation of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda" and questioned its status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.[80][81] It was also reported in April 2025 that Martin had sent a "vaguely threatening" letter to The New England Journal of Medicine, accusing the journal of being "partisans in various scientific debates". At least three other medical journals received similar letters from Martin.[82]

In April 2025, an open letter criticizing Martin was signed by over one hundred former prosecutors who had worked in the Office of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, who claimed that Martin "has butchered the position, effectively destroying it as a vehicle by which to pursue justice and turning it into a political arm of the current administration."[55] In Missouri, the editorial board of The Kansas City Star deplored Martin as "not fit" for the job.[83]

In May 2025, Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced his opposition to confirming Martin to the position permanently, citing in particular Martin's involvement in Stop the Steal. This left Martin with too few votes to be reported positively out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.[22][23] On May 8, 2025, Trump announced that he was withdrawing Martin's nomination.[24][25] Later the same day, Trump named Jeanine Pirro as Martin's replacement.[26]

DoJ pardon attorney

:{:{On May 13, 2025 Martin announced he would serve as the pardon attorney, vowing to review the Biden administration's outgoing pardons.[27] He also announced that he would head a "Weaponization Working Group" within the United States Department of Justice, saying, "When it comes to the problem of weaponization. . . . that's what the Biden administration, they didn't tell you what they were doing they just targeted people," and "if they can be charged, we'll charge them. But if they can't be charged, we will name them . . . and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed."[28] }:

On May 22, he met with Peter Ticktin of the American Rights Alliance. Ticktin recommended full pardons for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes; for Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola; and for Dan Wilson and Elias Costianes, former January 6 defendants who are currently in prison for unrelated charges.[84] Separately, in a podcast episode that aired May 22, Martin said of the two men convicted of plotting in 2020 to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer: "we can't leave these guys behind".[85] On May 26, Martin described the rationale for granting pardons as "No MAGA left behind".[86]}:

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Busted: Embatteled Trump pick told 'Church of the AR-15' that US institutions must fall

Courtesy Kingdom Generation YouTube channel

Jordan Greenand Raw StoryMay 08, 2025

Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s embattled pick for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, once told an AR-15-toting fringe religious group that institutions preventing Trump from overturning the 2020 election would fall like Jericho, according to footage reviewed by Raw Story but now seemingly removed from the internet by the group concerned.

“We’re gonna have Jericho March, Jericho March all around,” Martin said, alluding to the Biblical story of how Joshua led the Israelite army to attack the city of Jericho and slaughter its inhabitants.

“And if these principalities won’t yield to the truth and the Constitution, we know what happened in Jericho.”

Martin was then a Missouri Republican activist best known for leading Eagle Forum, a group formed by the arch-conservative Phyllis Schlafly.

He spoke outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 9, 2020, less than a month before Congress would convene a joint session to certify the electoral votes for the next president.

On Jan. 6 2021, when Congress convened, a mob of supporters who Trump told to “fight like hell” in his cause stormed the Capitol building. The attack failed to overturn Joe Biden’s election win but is now linked to nine deaths. In January, after Trump returned to power, he issued pardons and commutations for about 1,500 people in relation to the attack.

After being named top prosecutor for D.C. in an acting capacity, Martin personally dismissed charges against Jan. 6 defendants still awaiting trial.

Now, though, Martin’s chances of being confirmed in a permanent capacity appear to be foundering, amid concerns about his connections to the Capitol attack and his role in the “Stop the Steal” movement that fueled it.

‘We speak His truth’

Amid a frenzy of reporting on Martin's chances of confirmation, Martin’s speech outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 9 has been little remarked. But it reveals a startling moment.

Martin spoke to Rod of Iron Ministries, a breakaway sect from the Unification Church that worships with AR-15 rifles and is led by Pastor Sean Moon, son of the late Sun Myung Moon, who is revered by followers as the second coming of Christ.

On Jan. 6, Sean Moon would lead followers to the Capitol. Later, in an Instagram post, Moon celebrated rioters who he said “took dominion of the Satanic temple,” while sending “the most powerful people on the planet scurrying away, like rats, in total fear, total panic, in tunnels.”

On Dec. 9, Martin approached the group, which was preparing to rally in support of Trump. Dressed in a tan overcoat, he asked if he could borrow their microphone.

Introducing himself as “one of the founders of Stop the Steal,” Martin sought to encourage Moon and his followers to not get too hung up on whether Trump’s effort to overturn the election got snagged at the Supreme Court, and to keep fighting regardless.

Speaking with religious fervor, Martin entwined a vision of a Christian nation with unstinting loyalty to Trump.

“We are a republic founded on a Constitution and the rule of law,” Martin said. “But the Constitution and the rule of law mean nothing if you do not have the Judeo-Christian values that underlie it.

“Every one of us has turned to repent to the Lord; our nation has too. But we also turn to our fellow man, and say, ‘Do your job.’”

“Do your job! Do your job!” Rod of Iron members chanted.

The “fake news,” Martin warned, would say the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to hear challenges to the election would determine the winner. Not true, claimed Martin: “We all know at the end of today, the winner’s Jesus Christ almighty God.”

Trust the lawyers to fight the legal battles, Martin said, adding that the Rod of Iron members should stay focused on a greater truth.

“We speak His truth,” Martin said, “and then we bring our truth down here. And we have to be — like the old days — evangelizers of the truth, in the country, in this nation, because there’s too much at stake for us to turn away now. So, here’s the thing: Be encouraged. Be strengthened. Be fortified. And pray. But be ready to keep fighting.”

Martin then invited the Rod of Iron members to come back to the Supreme Court in three days for a “Jericho March,” alluding to the grisly fate of that city.

Video of Martin’s speech was filmed by Kyle Yoder, a supporter of Sean Moon, and posted on a YouTube channel named “Kingdom Generation” under the title “The Second King in front of the US Supreme Court,” an apparent reference to Moon.

Raw Story reviewed, transcribed and took screenshots of the video in July 2021. The video now appears to have been taken down.

Ed Martin (right) and Pastor Sean Moon, leader of Rod of Iron Ministries, hold up a "Stop the Steal" sign at the Supreme Court on Dec. 9, 2020.Courtesy Kingdom Generation YouTube channel

On Dec. 12, 2020, a “Jericho March” went ahead. One of the speakers was Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act or face a “much more desperate, much more bloody war.”

After the Capitol attack, Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 18 years in federal prison. He was released in January after receiving a commutation from Trump.

Martin was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but was not charged. As an attorney, he represented some Jan. 6 defendants and became a fixture on conservative outlets that sought to recast the rioters as patriots duped by either “antifa” — leftwing groups — or the FBI.

In one 2024 podcast, Martin said he supported pardons even for defendants who were violent on Jan. 6, reasoning that “this whole thing was such a setup that, while I would never condone hitting a cop, the people that were put in a position and charged with that were put in a position.

“It’s not entrapment — it’s much more sophisticated than entrapment. It’s much more like an incitement on behalf of the entire system to get a result, and then to name it [insurrection]. And so I’m for pardoning all the people that were related to January 6, because I think it was such an egregious thing.”

‘No tolerance for anybody who entered the building’

After Trump’s return to power, Martin’s nomination as U.S. attorney for D.C. seemed set to succeed.

But Martin’s comments on Jan. 6 appear to have become a dealbreaker for some Republicans. While U.S. attorney appointments typically move through the Senate to confirmation without controversy, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, hasn’t scheduled a vote on Martin’s nomination.

In a more worrying sign for Martin, at the Capitol on Tuesday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a key swing vote, told ABC News that after meeting with Martin, he could not support him.

“I think anybody who breached the perimeter should have been in prison for some time,” Tillis said, of those who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. “Whether it’s 30 days or three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January 6, and that’s probably where most of the friction was.”

When Trump was impeached for inciting the Capitol attack, Tillis voted to acquit, though he said Trump’s “words and actions were reckless and he shares responsibility for the disgrace that occurred on Jan. 6.”

Since Trump’s return to power, Tillis has expressed opposition to Jan. 6 pardons. But he must walk a political tightrope, towards a reelection bid in North Carolina that is expected to be among the closest contests next year. Angering Trump would put him at risk of a primary defeat.

Trump has spoken to senators. Nonetheless, on Tuesday, majority leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters he thought Tillis’s opposition would leave Martin’s nomination stuck in committee, and thus doomed. ABC said Tillis could still vote to advance Martin’s nomination to the full Senate, just without his support.

Raw Story requested comment from Martin, via the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He did not respond.

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The top Department of Justice prosecutor in Washington D.C. is now sending letters to elected officials who criticize President Donald Trump and his administration that include ominous ultimatums.

That's according to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who posted the full text of a letter he received from Edward Martin — the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin's letter is just one of several he sent to Democrats who publicly criticized both Trump and centibillionaire Elon Musk. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) also received letters from Martin, with each one including a deadline to respond.

"So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter," the California congressman wrote on Bluesky. "Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced."

READ MORE:'Unacceptable': Trump's top prosecutor rages at coworkers after email was 'immediately' leaked

Martin's letter asks Garcia to elaborate on comments he made about Musk during an interview on CNN, in which he called the Tesla and SpaceX CEO a "d---."

"During a live interview with CNN, when asked how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, you spoke clearly: 'What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy,'" Martin wrote, adding that Garcia had until Februrary 24, 2025 to respond. "This sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk – an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a 'd---' – and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry."

Garcia defended his comments, and retorted that "no reasonable person would view my comments as a threat."

"We are living in a dangerous time, and elected members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration," he wrote in a subsequent post. "I will not be silenced."

READ MORE:'Prosecutors will be prosecuted': Pam Bondi vowed DOJ 'deep state' will be 'cleaned out'

Click here to read Garcia's original post. And click here to read the full text of Martin's letters to Democrats.

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DOJ Run Amok

The Justice Department under new Attorney General Pam Bondi continues its steep decline, setting new precedents almost daily for supplication to the White House, corrupt and unethical conduct, and dubious representations to judges.

Yesterday was its own special, to use the legal term of art, shitshow.

The acting deputy attorney general appeared all alone in federal court in Manhattan to try to seal the deal on his corrupt scheme to dismiss criminal charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The deputy attorney general runs the Justice Department on a day to day basis; yet here was Emil Bove by himself at the counsel table, with apparently no other DOJ lawyer willing to sit with him. Behind him providing visible support was Todd Blanche, the nominee for deputy attorney general who has yet to be confirmed by the Senate. Both men until last month were personal attorneys to Donald Trump.

After the hearing (no ruling yet on the motion to dismiss from U.S. District Judge Dale Ho), Bove sent a tone-deaf, Trumpian message to DOJ employees trying to turn his solo appearance in court from a personal humiliation into a model of diehard MAGA-tude. In a snarky conclusion that is astonishing coming from a DAG, Bove said that anyone who wasn’t onboard the Trump train could resign and pointed them to the letters penned by their colleagues who resigned over Bove’s order to dismiss the Adams case:

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As that unprecedented scene was playing out in NYC, President Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. attorney in DC was further showering himself in disgrace. Ed Martin, who is the acting USA for the moment, sent another one of his wildly inappropriate emails to colleagues that was apparently promptly leaked again.

Martin for the third time that we know of made grand and obsequious gestures toward Elon Musk’s DOGE: “We will protect DOGE,” he declared:

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Most alarming was Martin’s willingness to launch pseudo-investigations of prominent Democrats and to castigate them in politicized terms while touting his own bonafides in going after them. Among the Democrats targeted by Martin: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA).

“Operation Whirlwind” is what Martin is calling his effort to prosecute anyone who targets public officials, but it appears to be more of an effort to stifle First Amendment expression and intimidate opposition leaders than to protect officials from the wave of actual threats that Trump himself has stirred up in recent years.

A right-wing conspiracy theory website is at the heart of the latest Justice Department resignation in protest of the Trump administration’s interference at the DOJ.

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A right-wing conspiracy theory website is at the heart of the latest Justice Department resignation in protest of the Trump administration’s interference at the DOJ.

In her Tuesday resignation letter to acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, federal prosecutor Denise Cheung, who was in charge of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, cited her refusal to open a grand jury investigation into Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency grants and to freeze assets of the grant initiative.

Cheung noted in her resignation letter that there’s simply not enough evidence to support these actions — actions that Martin, a Trump ally, directed her to take. The only evidence driving the Trump administration push for an investigation and potential asset freeze is a 5-minute video clip from the known misinformation purveyor Project Veritas, which purports to show a former EPA employee speaking about distributing climate specific funding to non-profit organizations before the start of Trump’s presidency.

The issue at hand centers on EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s push to rescind $20 billion in grants that were already allocated for climate projects by the Biden administration, according to reports from the Washington Post and CNN. In a video posted on X last week, Zeldin claimed that the grant money, which he referred to as being part of a “scheme,” had been improperly dolled out by the Biden administration.

In his post on X, Zeldin references what he calls an “extremely disturbing video” of a former Biden-era EPA employee talking about “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.”

The “disturbing” video in question is a Project Veritas clip that shows a former Biden-era EPA employee speaking about distributing funding to “nonprofits, states, tribes” ahead of Trump’s presidency. It’s the only supposed proof that Zeldin has put forward as justification for his attempts to claw back the money and contracts tied to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Zeldin also mentioned in his announcement on X that he “found” $20 billion worth of funding in an “outside financial institution”, but, later, in the same clip also says “there is zero reason to suspect any wrongdoing by the bank.”

“It’s ridiculous that the head of the EPA is justifying an illegal funding blockade with a selectively edited video from a far-right, shady organization known for spreading misinformation to serve Republican political narratives,” Seth Nelson, Evergreen Action Deputy Communications Director, told TPM.

The reliance on this video and the lack of supporting evidence for wrongdoing is in large part the reason why Cheung refused to support a grand jury investigation into the Biden administration’s EPA grants.

“I was asked to review documentation supplied by the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) to open a criminal investigation into whether a contract had been unlawfully awarded by an executive agency before the change in Administration and to issue grand jury subpoenas pursuant to this investigation,” she wrote in her Tuesday resignation letter.

Cheung goes on to explain in her letter that she had conferred with others in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, “all of whom have substantial white collar criminal prosecution experience,” to determine whether or not there was enough evidence to open a grand jury investigation. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s office insisted that the Project Veritas clip provided enough evidence to justify an investigation, according to CNN. But Cheung determined that there was not.

Cheung noted that she then “took point” on a process to request that “the bank freeze assets” of the EPA funding. Coordinating with an FBI official in the Washington field office, Cheung drafted a letter to the bank recommending an asset freeze.

Martin, however, told Cheung to use more explicit language in her draft letter that said “the government has probable cause to believe that the funds on deposit in the above-referenced account(s) at [named bank] are subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States based upon violations, ” Cheung said in her letter.

Cheung then told Martin that there is insufficient evidence to use this type of language.

“When I explained that the quantum of evidence did not support that action, you stated that you believed that there was sufficient evidence,” she continued. “As I shared with you, at this juncture, based upon the evidence I have reviewed, I still do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to issue the letter you described, including sufficient evidence to tell the bank that there is probable cause to seize the particular accounts identified.”

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A federal prosecutor in charge of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned on Tuesday following her refusal to follow a Donald Trump administration directive to freeze assets of a Biden-era administration grant initiative, the Washington Post and Reuters reported.

The resignation is the latest of several similar resignations and dismissals at the Justice Department in recent days and the most recent example of a DOJ career prosecutor resigning to resist improper political interference from the Trump administration. The resignation highlights the ongoing erosion of Justice Department independence from the White House under Trump.

Denise Cheung reportedly refused an order from Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to launch an investigation into the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency funding decisions. Details are still unfolding, but specifically, the resignation is connected to the Justice Department’s recent effort to assist EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s push to rescind $20 billion in grants already awarded by the Biden administration to fund climate projects.

VERITAS BS The former New York congressman and current EPA administrator posted a video on Twitter last week claiming, without evidence, that the Biden administration had improperly doled out the grants before the former president left office. In the video, Zeldin announced his plans to refer the matter to the inspector general’s office and to work with the DOJ on clawing back the money and contracts tied to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. DOJ has the authority to freeze assets but only after it has found evidence that the funds are tied to criminal activity, according to the Post.

Cheung and Martin reportedly disagreed about “whether she was delaying efforts to order a financial institution to halt spending transfers pending further investigation, or seeking to reach a compromise by taking steps she believed were ethical and appropriate,” in the Washington Post’s words.

In an email to colleagues, obtained by the Post, Cheung did not specify her reason for resigning. “I took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, and I have executed this duty faithfully,” the email reads.

In a letter offering her resignation to Martin, Cheung reportedly made it clear she was resigning due to the improper request from the Trump administration, Reuters reported.

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In a letter to the interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin reviewed by Reuters, the office’s criminal chief Denise Cheung wrote that the Trump administration had ordered her to investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden’s administration and pursue a freeze of the recipient’s assets.

She said that neither request was supported by the evidence, which she said she was provided with by the Deputy Attorney General’s office.

Neither the White House nor the Justice Department responded to TPM’s request for comment.

Cheung’s resignation comes only one day after President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Martin to permanently head the D.C. US Attorney’s office. His chances of being confirmed in the Senate are unclear.

Martin, who has been a face of the ‘Stop the Steal Movement’ also has a long history of January 6 denialism and has defended January 6 rioters in court. Martin had tasked Cheung and another prosecutor with investigating how January 6 prosecutors charged rioters from that day.

Cheung’s resignation comes against the backdrop of recent resignations of federal prosecutors who refused to comply with orders from acting deputy AG Bove, to dismiss the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday dared Trump immigration czar Tom Homan to pursue an investigation against her after he attacked the New York Democrat in two television appearances and said he has asked the Justice Department to "look into" whether she violated the law by holding a webinar informing constituents of their rights.

"This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media after Homan, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), called her "the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress" in an interview on the far-right network Newsmax.

The resort to a personal attack, said the New York Democrat, shows that "Homan has nothing."

"The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights," she added. "He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He's got nothing else."

Less than an hour later, Ocasio-Cortez wrote "go ahead" in response to a separate interview in which Homan told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he has asked the deputy attorney general to examine whether the New York congresswoman's webinar amounted to teaching people "how to evade ICE arrest."

"Let the people see you for what you are," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response.

Homan, whom President Donald Trump has tasked with spearheading the new administration's mass deportation efforts, has repeatedly attacked Ocasio-Cortez in recent days as the White House zeroes in on New York City with the help of disgraced Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, the beneficiary of an out-in-the-open quid pro quo arrangement that is now at the center of a legal and political controversy.

On her congressional website, Ocasio-Cortez—who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens—has a page devoted to informing her constituents of their legal rights when faced with ICE agents.

"ICE does not have the right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge," reads a flyer produced by Ocasio-Cortez's office, a message that was echoed during last week's webinar.

Days after the webinar, Homan said in a Fox News appearance that he "sent an email" to the deputy attorney general asking whether Ocasio-Cortez is illegally "impeding our law enforcement efforts."

"Maybe he can learn to read," the New York Democrat wrote in response. "The Constitution would be a good place to start."

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On Tuesday morning, February 18, the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was rocked by yet another resignation.

According to Reuters' Sarah N. Lynch, Denise Cheung — the top senior prosecutor in DOJ's Washington office — told her colleague Ed Martin, in her resignation letter, that she is leaving DOJ because of a request from Trump Administration officials she considers improper. The Trump allies, Lynch reports, asked Cheung "to launch a criminal probe" and "ordered her to investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden's administration and pursue a freeze of the recipient's assets."

In her resignation letter, Cheung wrote, "I have been proud to serve at the U.S. Department of Justice and this office for over 24 years. During my tenure, which has spanned over many different administrations, I have always been guided by the oath I took.... to support and defend the Constitution."

READ MORE:**'Brutal': Ex-federal prosecutor reveals why Trump DOJ’s 'illegal order' was 'so corrupt'**

Cheung's resignation is inspiring a lot of reactions on X, formerly Twitter.

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig tweeted, "Yet another resignation in protest after DOJ leadership orders veteran fed prosecutor this weekend to freeze enviro grants made by Biden administration. @TheJusticeDept can freeze funds when there is evidence the assets are linked to a crime. Veteran Denise Cheung felt such a step was improper/unethical now and resigned, sources tell the Post."

CBS News' Scott MacFarlane posted, "The wave of resignations among longtime Justice Dept attorneys continues Denise Cheung is leaving her post as a top criminal prosecutor in Washington DC, amid tumult in the agency."

Former federal prosecutor Daniel R. Alonso wrote, "Having served as a criminal chief in a Republican administration that did not abuse its authority with respect to our office (EDNY), I can say D.C. Criminal chief Denise Cheung was exactly right to resign. You DO NOT open investigations without predication."

READ MORE:**George Conway: Trump’s 'pathological narcissism' is fueling 'full-scale' DOJ 'revolt'**

In a separate tweet, Alonso commented, "It's a conundrum to be sure, but lawyers have ethical obligations. It's true different lawyers interpret them differently, but how can we ask her to stay when her conscience dictates otherwise? A more pressing issue is that the Senate should reject Martin's nomination - he belongs nowhere near federal prosecutorial decision-making."

The Hill's Niall Stanage wrote, "Developing story — NYT reports this happened because the person in question would not carry out a 'directive' from the Trump team."

CNN's Jim Sciutto tweeted, "The sudden departure of Justice Department veteran Denise Cheung comes a day after President Donald Trump announced his nominee to lead the prosecutor's office, Ed Martin, who has supported unwinding all January 6 criminal cases that the office brought."

X user Millard Fillmore remarked, "She is resigning because they ordered her to break the law via a trumped investigation."

READ MORE: 'It’s unusual': Trump’s DOJ does an about-face on voting rights cases

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Peter Montgomery

Ed Martin, a right-wing activist and podcaster installed by President Donald Trump as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, is running interference for Elon Musk’s rampage through federal agencies. He has also begun a purge of Justice Department officials who investigated and prosecuted the criminals pardoned by Trump over their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, while apparently setting the stage for further ideological retribution.

On Feb. 3, Martin vowed in a letter to Musk that he would take legal action against anyone who “impedes your work or threatens your people.” Meanwhile, House Republicans are also doing their bit to protect Musk from congressional oversight.

A few days later, on Friday, Feb. 7, Martin wrote to thank Musk and his deputy Steve Davis for making referrals to him and stating, “If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable.”

“Noone is above the law,” Martin, added, in bold type, a seemingly hypocritical claim from someone who aggressively promoted Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. Last year, Martin gave an "Eagle Award" to John Eastman, an attorney who has facedseriouslegal consequencesfor his efforts to help Trump stay in the presidency after that loss.

Martin is “a shocking choice, even by Trump standards,” wrote journalist Adele Stan, adding that “in Martin, Trump has found a kindred character who, in the past, has been willing to skirt the law for the sake of his own power.”

“And in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. attorney has a whole lot of power, right off the bat, given that any federal crime charged in the nation’s capital is now his to prosecute—or not,” Stan notes. “Just don’t expect him to abide by the rules of fair play.”

Indeed, as Interim U.S. Attorney, Martin signed a motion asking a federal court to dismiss a charge against a Jan. 6 defendant who Martin was still representing. Reuters noted, “Lawyers generally are prohibited from taking both sides in the same case and U.S. Justice Department regulations require lawyers to step aside from cases involving their former clients for at least a year.” According to ethics experts consulted by Reuters, Martin “likely violated a swath of ethics rules.”

Who is this guy? An Ed Martin Timeline

Martin is a longtime religious-right activist who worked with the late right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly and engaged in a bitter struggle for control of her organization and political legacy. The conflict was resolved with him in control of a group called the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.

Schlafly was one of Trump’s early backers, and Martin was part of Trump’s 2016 “pro-life advisory council.” He is a devoted Trump cultist who once published an adult coloring book of Trump tweets, claiming that “the true meaning of covfefe”—a typo tweeted by Trump—“is love.”

In 2016, Martin and Schlafly co-authored “The Conservative Case for Trump,” which argued that the U.S. was being harmed by allowing immigration from non-European countries. That year, Martin told a Tea Party rally, “You’re not racist if you don’t like Mexicans. They're from a nation. If you don't think Muslims are vetted enough, because they blow things up, that's not racist."

In 2017, Martin was hired by CNN as a pro-Trump commentator, which provoked the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to describe “Shameless Ed” as a “disgraced chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt” who will “say almost anything”—a habitthat got him fired from CNN a few months later after he called fellow panelists “black racists.” (He would later denounce CNN reporters as “traitors to America.”)

A few years later, in 2019, Martin expressed outrage that congressional Republicans finally took action against Rep. Steve King after the representative’s long track record of racist and nativist rhetoric.

Martin seems to have strange ideas about what does qualify as racism. In 2022, when President Biden announced his intention to name a black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, Martin ranted, “I’m not sure we’ve ever seen such a racist, sexist, despicable thing as a leader that we saw Joe Biden do with this pick.” Strangely enough, Martin did not seem to be bothered by Trump’s vow to name a woman to the court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Martin opposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which offers protections to victims of violence and has improved the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the United States. It also provides funds for women’s shelters and hotlines, among other services. Its passage in 1994 marked the first time federal law acknowledged domestic violence and sexual assault as crimes. In 2019, Martin claimed that it was not “pro-family” because he said the law’s provisions “break up families far too often.” The Act was most recently reauthorized in 2022.

MAGA Loyalist and Conspiracy Theorist

In 2019, Martin ran for a seat on the Fairfax County board of supervisors in Virginia, losing by about 30 percentage points. That year he denounced the Federal Reserve as part of the deep state for not letting Trump dictate its monetary policies, and called for Trump to give political dirty trickster Roger Stone a pardon and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation.

In May of 2020, when the Trump Justice Department decided to drop its criminal case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Martin was among MAGA activists who called for retribution against those who had prosecuted Flynn. "Let's keep going: we must identify and remove all those agents of the Deep State globalists who are fighting from within to destroy American leaders of integrity,” he said. Now he’s in position to contribute to Trump purges.

During protests against the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, Martin repeatedly told his followers that America was “at war” against people who want to “destroy this country.” He called for “massive force” against perpetrators of violence, adding that anyone out after curfew was by definition not a peaceful protester. “We have to be ruthless,” he said. Martin called Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a hero and claimed that the mainstream media coverage of Rittenhouse’s trial was intended to prompt “race riots” and benefit from the big ratings they would generate.

Martin, who is Catholic, went ballistic when the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C. criticized the Trump administration after it violently cleared away protesters so that Trump could stage a photo-op by posing with a Bible outside a church near the White House. The bishop’s statement had criticized the use of tear gas to “silence, scatter or intimidate” people for Trump’s photo op. Martin railed against the bishop’s “terribly destructive, terribly hateful” statement, which he dismissed as “classic American social justice gobbledygook.”

In late October 2020, Martin used a QAnon hashtag as he was boosting a social media post by Flynn urging activists to “leave it all on the field” in the final days before the election. Earlier that month, Martin had complained that social media companies had been cracking down on the QAnon movement’s conspiracy theories, writing, “Big Tech is silencing QAnon, Facebook is silencing QAnon.”

Martin and the ‘Stop the Steal’ Scheme to Keep Trump in Power After 2020 Election

Just after the 2020 election, after Trump had falsely declared victory, Martin joined far-right GOP operative Ali Alexander and other “Stop the Steal” activists to demand that election officials stop counting votes in key battleground states, and to demand that Republican elected officials back Trump’s claims. While votes were still being counted, Martin promoted the Trump claim that Biden could only win those states by “fraud.” As Stop the Steal expanded its efforts, Alexander praised Martin for his “mentorship and servant leadership.”

Martin signed a Dec. 10 letter asking state legislatures in battleground states to ignore the voting results and name pro-Trump electors. He participated in the pro-Trump rally on the National Mall at which Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes threatened bloody civil war; a day earlier he had hosted far-right Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò—since excommunicated by Pope Francis—on his weekly prayer call.

After states certified Joe Biden’s electoral college victory, Martin joined Alexander and other MAGA activists who threatened to unseat congressional Republicans who failed to object to certifying the results.

Jan. 6 and the Insurrectionists

The day before the attack, Martin gave a speech outside the Capitol, NBC reported, “starting a chant of 'stop the steal' and invoking God while accusing Trump’s enemies of stealing the election.”

“No matter what happens tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after, we still need to be in the fight. There’s no summer soldiers and springtime patriots here. There’s the die-hard true Americans,” Martin said. “We start today, go through tomorrow and every day 'til we have a last breath and go home to the Lord because we will stop the steal.”

The day of the insurrection, Adele Stan reported in The New Republic, “as MAGA thugs attacked police officers at the Capitol and spread feces on its walls, Ed Martin posted on the social media platform then known as Twitter, ‘I’m at the Capitol. And I was at the POTUS speech earlier. Rowdy crowd, but nothing out of hand. Ignore the #FakeNews.’”

Long after violence had been raging, Martin tweeted, “Like Mardi Gras in DC today: love, faith and joy.”

Martin later called the insurrection the “Pelosi hoax of January 6th.” Right Wing Watch reported in 2021:

Martin downplayed the seriousness of the attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, calling it a protest at which some people “acted like idiots.” Martin falsely claimed that there was no evidence of anyone having been armed and falsely claimed that there has been no identified link between white nationalists and the Capitol insurrectionists. In truth, there was plenty of evidence of armed Trump loyalists and white nationalists at the Capitol, and more has emerged as arrests have been made.

According to NBC News, Martin represented at least three Jan. 6 defendants and promoted conspiracy theories about “who the real architects of Jan. 6 were.”

Martin denounced the congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 attacks as “pure propaganda” and claimed that the hearings were held “just to destroy Donald Trump.”

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Martin’s loyalty was rewarded in 2024 when the Republican National Committee hired Martin as deputy policy director of the platform committee; Project 2025 architect Russ Vought—who Senate Republicans just confirmed as OMB Director—was policy director.

At the time, CNN noted Martin’s extreme positions on abortion – he favors a national ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, and has entertained the idea of jailing doctors and punishing women who have abortions. He has falsely claimed, “It’s an absolute scientific fact that no abortion is ever performed to save the life of the mother. None, zero, zilch.”

In December, Trump announced that he would make Martin chief of staff at OMB, where he would again serve under Vought. But on Jan. 20, the same day Trump announced pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, he namedMartin as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, leading to this New York Times headline: "Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them."

Washington Post columnist Colbert King responded to Martin’s appointment by writing that “D.C. deserves better than a political operative as its U.S. attorney, noting that most of the U.S. attorneys he covered “sought to serve the law, not partisan purposes.”

“That is what our nation’s capital needs in a U.S. attorney,” King wrote. “We don’t have that now.”

And that was before Martin so fully devoted himself to enabling Musk’s infiltration of sensitive government computer systems and staff purges, widely described as unlawful and lawless, but not by MAGA loyalist Martin.

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Now it appears that [Ed] Martin is positioning himself to “investigate the investigators,” as Trump and his minions have promised, perhaps looking for words in charging documents that he can twist into a false narrative of prosecutorial malfeasance on the part of the government lawyers who charged the insurrectionists.

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

The ADL has condemned appointing Darren Beattie, who invoked the antisemitic trope that George Soros orchestrated efforts to oust President Trump

At his confirmation hearing, Kash Patel — President Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI — was grilled over his association with Holocaust denier and Nazi sympathizer Stew Peters. On a Friday livestream, Peters denied being a white supremacist, shortly before introducing former Klan leader David Duke as a “living legend.”

We might need to update that famous saying by German Lutheran theologian Martin Niemöller. First they came for the Episcopalians … then they came for the Catholics … then they came for the Lutherans.

This week, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a “joint memorial” (i.e. resolution) of the Legislature calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that in 2015 established a constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples and insisting that “the issue of marriage and enforcement of all laws pertaining to marriage” be returned to the states. The state Senate is expected to take up the memorial shortly.

"Isn't she Jewish?" an unapologetic state Rep. Nico Rios asked when reached by phone. "Why is it wrong that I state a fact?"

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The prosecutor President Donald Trump appointed to an acting role near the top of the Department of Justice had a particularly rough first week at work, according to several emails leaked by his colleagues.

On Wednesday, CNN reported that Ed Martin, who is currently the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has had to contend with his coworkers leaking his emails, along with a disgruntled former prosecutor calling him out in interviews with the press. On Tuesday, Martin sent an email to DOJ personnel complaining that a Monday email he sent ordering an internal review of how federal prosecutors handled January 6 defendants' cases was leaked to the media.

“Wow, what a disappointment to have my email yesterday to you all was leaked almost immediately," Martin wrote on Tuesday. "Again, personally insulting and professionally unacceptable. I guess I have learned my lesson (‘Fool me once…’).”

READ MORE:**'Prosecutors will be prosecuted': Pam Bondi vowed DOJ 'deep state' will be 'cleaned out'**

Martin was particularly upset about former DOJ prosecutor Ashley Akers, who resigned in response to Trump pardoning the approximately 1,500 people charged and/or convicted in connection with the insurrection. She told MSNBC and CNN that she had a "guttural reaction" to Trump's pardons, and called it "appalling" that Martin was "advocating on behalf of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers" by arguing to a federal judge that their travel restrictions should be lifted. Martin blasted Akers for "going on television and badmouthing our work (and me)" and told the DOJ that the agency needed to "make sure we have her records and emails."

“I have never met her so I find her comments disconnected from reality - not a credit to our office,” Martin wrote in the email. “She mentioned ‘fear’ (and used the word ‘guttural’) - I am not sure to what she is referring … I will be reaching out to her. Maybe she had issues with her supervisors or my predecessor. We will see if we can help her.”

Before joining the Trump DOJ, Martin was a longtime anti-abortion activist who eventually became chairman of the Missouri Republican Party. In 2020, NBC News reported that he was a prominent "Stop the Steal" activist who cheered on Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

“No matter what happens tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after, we still need to be in the fight," Martin said outside of the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021. "There’s no summer soldiers and springtime patriots here. There’s the die-hard true Americans. We start today, go through tomorrow and every day till we have a last breath and go home to the Lord because we will stop the steal.”

READ MORE:**'Insane': Experts condemn Trump plan to make DOJ 'manufacture evidence' that he won in 2020**

Click here to read CNN's full article.

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The prosecutor President Donald Trump appointed to an acting role near the top of the Department of Justice had a particularly rough first week at work, according to several emails leaked by his colleagues.

On Wednesday, CNN reported that Ed Martin, who is currently the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has had to contend with his coworkers leaking his emails, along with a disgruntled former prosecutor calling him out in interviews with the press. On Tuesday, Martin sent an email to DOJ personnel complaining that a Monday email he sent ordering an internal review of how federal prosecutors handled January 6 defendants' cases was leaked to the media.

“Wow, what a disappointment to have my email yesterday to you all was leaked almost immediately," Martin wrote on Tuesday. "Again, personally insulting and professionally unacceptable. I guess I have learned my lesson (‘Fool me once…’).”

READ MORE:**'Prosecutors will be prosecuted': Pam Bondi vowed DOJ 'deep state' will be 'cleaned out'**

Martin was particularly upset about former DOJ prosecutor Ashley Akers, who resigned in response to Trump pardoning the approximately 1,500 people charged and/or convicted in connection with the insurrection. She told MSNBC and CNN that she had a "guttural reaction" to Trump's pardons, and called it "appalling" that Martin was "advocating on behalf of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers" by arguing to a federal judge that their travel restrictions should be lifted. Martin blasted Akers for "going on television and badmouthing our work (and me)" and told the DOJ that the agency needed to "make sure we have her records and emails."

“I have never met her so I find her comments disconnected from reality - not a credit to our office,” Martin wrote in the email. “She mentioned ‘fear’ (and used the word ‘guttural’) - I am not sure to what she is referring … I will be reaching out to her. Maybe she had issues with her supervisors or my predecessor. We will see if we can help her.”

Before joining the Trump DOJ, Martin was a longtime anti-abortion activist who eventually became chairman of the Missouri Republican Party. In 2020, NBC News reported that he was a prominent "Stop the Steal" activist who cheered on Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

“No matter what happens tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after, we still need to be in the fight," Martin said outside of the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2021. "There’s no summer soldiers and springtime patriots here. There’s the die-hard true Americans. We start today, go through tomorrow and every day till we have a last breath and go home to the Lord because we will stop the steal.”

READ MORE:**'Insane': Experts condemn Trump plan to make DOJ 'manufacture evidence' that he won in 2020**

Click here to read CNN's full article.

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Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin launches probe of Jan. 6 prosecutions

Trump’s newly appointed top prosecutor in Washington asked for “all files” on use of obstruction count in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.

January 27, 2025 Edward R. Martin Jr. speaks at an event hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) at the Capitol on June 13, 2023. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP)

By Spencer S. Hsu, Keith L. Alexander and Tom Jackman

Edward R. Martin Jr., the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., has asked two top prosecutors in his office to undertake an internal review of its handling of Capitol riot prosecutions, focusing on one of the most heavily litigated counts in the sweeping investigation that President Donald Trump has sought to discredit as a “witch hunt” against him.

The move follows Trump’s grants of pardons or sentence commutations to all of nearly 1,600 people charged in one of the Justice Department’s largest prosecutions, continuing a striking move to change history’s understanding of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. It comes on the heels of a White House executive order to the Justice Department and intelligence agencies to hunt for political bias in their ranks.

In an email to staff Monday morning, Martin stated that he had appointed Denise Cheung, chief of the Criminal Division, and Jon Hooks, chief of the Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights section, to lead a “special project” investigating the office’s charging of more than 250 Capitol riot defendants with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, a statute the Supreme Court ruled last June was too broadly applied.

“Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office … and we need to get to the bottom of it,” Martin wrote in the email, saying he expected a preliminary report by Friday. A copy of the email was viewed by The Washington Post.

“Please deliver to Jonathan and/or Denise all information you have related to the use of 1512 charges including all files, documents, notes, emails and other information,” Martin wrote, using the number that refers to the obstruction statute’s section number in the federal code. “Be comprehensive and assertive in this, please,” he said, adding: “This 1512 project is important work.”

The inquiry was announced the same day acting attorney general James McHenry fired several members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team that prosecuted Trump on charges that he sought to unlawfully subvert the results of the 2020 election and illegally retain and obstruct the return of classified materials after the left the White House in 2021, a spokesman for the department said.

McHenry said that he “does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

Martin’s tasking of two of the highest-ranking supervisors in the office of 300 federal prosecutors — the nation’s largest U.S. attorney’s office — to carry out the review stoked criticism from current and former Justice Department officials that he is helping the Trump administration sow discord in the office, divert prosecutorial resources and punish prosecutors making reasonable legal judgments. Prosecutors’ use of the obstruction statute was approved by nearly all judges who reviewed it before it reached the high court.

But his focus on prosecutors’ charging decisions follows calls by Trump and some supporters for prosecutors to be prosecuted. Martin, 54, was a “Stop the Steal” organizer for Trump after his 2020 election loss and a board member of a nonprofit group that raised money for Jan. 6 defendants as victims of political persecution. He was a defense attorney for three such defendants, including a Kansas City Proud Boys leader who pleaded guilty to assaulting police with an ax handle.

Martin’s early actions in office show the priority he places on reviewing the work of Capitol breach investigators and the role he may play in carrying out Trump administration directives.

Although appointed Jan. 20 on an interim basis — by statute 120 days — Martin said at an introductory staff meeting last week that he expected to serve as permanent U.S. attorney, presumably after nomination and Senate confirmation, according to a person in attendance and others briefed on the meeting. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern of reprisals.

Martin closed the office’s Capitol breach prosecution unit, and removed its chief, Greg Rosen. He has also taken on Alicia Long, a career prosecutor in the office and former Republican Senate staffer, as his new principal assistant U.S. attorney and second-in-command.

Martin sent an email to his own office congratulating Trump on his pardon of two D.C. police officers who were convicted of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice in the 2020 death of a moped driver — a case prosecuted by career attorneys working under Martin’s predecessors, according to a person who received the email.

He also sent an email to the office’s 800-plus personnel telling them not to speak to the media, saying, “We will not tolerate this behavior,” according to a copy of that message read to The Post.

Martin’s notice of an internal review Monday came one week after Trump signed an order “ending the weaponization of the federal government,” instructing the attorney general and director of national intelligence to scour federal agencies for political bias under the Biden administration, and issue a report and recommendations to the White House for “remedial action.”

The order accused the Justice Department of “ruthlessly” prosecuting more than 1,500 individuals in the riot, and said the Biden administration “and allies throughout the country engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”

The order did not detail when or what type of review would be conducted — an ethics investigation like those undertaken by the Justice Department’s inspector general or office of professional responsibility, a criminal inquiry, or something else — but said it was the beginning of a process to seek “accountability” for officials deemed to have acted contrary to the order. It was not clear whether Martin’s review was related to the order, or if he was carrying out the review on his own behalf or the department’s.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said it did not have a comment at this time about Martin’s plans, the goal of the review or its next steps.

Martin’s email appeared to follow up on other recent administration announcements restricting communications, hiring and diversity initiatives.

“We are on a hiring and promotion freeze. This is complete — no hiring, no promotions, no excuses,” he wrote Monday.

He also notified employees that “all DEI efforts” — or diversity, equity and inclusion — have been ceased, whether they go by that name or others, and wrote that staff should report all “DEI and related efforts, materials, decisions, etc. to me ASAP. Failure to do so is a problem.”

Staff members are angry and fearful that colleagues will be informing on each other about their work and programs, one person in the office said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Former officials with the office called the investigation of the obstruction charge puzzling. While the Supreme Court last June ruled that federal prosecutors could only apply it to defendants who sought to impair the integrity of physical evidence used to certify the 2020 presidential election result — and not to impede Congress’s overall certification on Jan. 6, 2021 — all but one of the 15 trial judges to rule on the question had sided with prosecutors’ broader, “catchall” view, as did two of three federal appellate judges.

The Supreme Court ruling had prompted judges to reduce sentences in some cases where defendants had not completed their time or been convicted of more serious offenses. And prosecutors dropped charges or brought new ones against other defendants pending trial, with litigation still pending before Trump’s pardons wiped the slate clean.

“We want prosecutors to be aggressive and entrepreneurial — to think of all options on behalf of the American people — and now we want to make them subject to investigation because the Supreme Court reversed course after lower courts had blessed the use of the statute?” one former official said. “You want a way to deflate morale, make people cautious and make people scared? I can’t think of a better way to do it.”

Days after Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly 1,600 people charged in the investigation, the Justice Department erased websites containing information about the historic Capitol breach prosecutions over the weekend.

Charging decisions in the Jan. 6 breach investigation were made beginning while Trump was still president at the end of his first term under a Trump administration appointee and Justice Department official, acting U.S. attorney for D.C. Michael R. Sherwin.

In an interview before he stepped down Jan. 17, Biden-appointed U.S. attorney Matthew M. Graves said: “All that we did was continue to bring the same kinds of cases that the prior administration brought. And when I say we, I am talking about career prosecutors. Career prosecutors and career supervisors came up with guidelines for who would be charged and what they would be charged with in the weeks after January 6th. And those guidelines have been followed throughout. And that is a consistency and a good consistency, I would argue.”

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Right-wing commentator Ed Martin, who was recently appointed to a senior position for the Republican National Convention, has complained about Spanish speakers in the United States and said he is a “big admirer” of leading white nationalist group VDare.

VDare has posted content claiming that “one problem with these Hispanic immigrants is their disgusting behavior”; “America does not need ANY immigrants from Africa”; the United States needs to “rethink Martin Luther King Day”; “Miscegenation has risks”; antifa and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 might be part of a “Jewish coup”; and the country should “EXPEL Muslims.”

Martin is a podcaster, author, and frequent guest on right-wing media programs. He briefly worked as a pro-Trump pundit on CNN from 2017 to 2018 but was fired after he repeatedly embarrassed the network, including attacking his colleagues as “Black racists.” Martin, who was on a 2020 Trump campaign advisory board, was also a notable figure after the 2020 presidential election when he helped organize “Stop the Steal” rallies and later defended accused participants in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. He has also pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory, repeatedly using the movement’s slogan “WWG1WGA,” short for “Where we go one, we go all.”

The RNC announced Martin’s appointment as deputy policy director of the Republican National Convention’s Committee on the Platform on May 15, with RNC Chairman Michael Whatley praising Martin and other selections as “brilliant” and having “sound judgement and principled vision.” Martin joins Russ Vought, a key Project 2025 figure who has pushed for Christian nationalism and “ideological purity tests” for civil servants, on the committee.

Martin is a fan of VDare, a white nationalist organization that repeatedly attacks Black and Latino people. VDare has also featured antisemitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric and criticized “miscegenation,” writing that “flawed character is disproportionately associated with mixed black-white race people.” (In 2016, the Republican National Convention featured a social media post from VDare on its scrolling ticker.)

Here are various headlines from VDare’s website:

VDare’s site has had tags that include: “Immigrant Mass Murder,” “Anti-White Hate Crimes,” “White Guy Loses His Job,” “Birthright Citizenship Reform,” “Minority Occupation Government,” “Disgruntled Minority Massacre,” “Death Of White America,” “Black Serial Killers,” “War On Whites,” “Jewish Fear and Loathing of Donald Trump,” and “Immigrants And Disease.”

Numerous media outlets have accurately described VDare as having white nationalist views, including The New York Times (which called it “a hub of the new, more online-oriented white nationalist movement”), The Washington Post (“a frequent platform for white nationalists espousing anti-Semitic and anti-immigration rhetoric”), CNN (“a prominent white nationalist website”), and The Associated Press (“a leading promoter of white nationalist and anti-immigration views”). Even the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post has called VDare a “white nationalist site.”

In 2021, Martin appeared on The VDare Book Club Podcast, where he discussed a book by his former boss Phyllis Schlafly. He began the interview with host James Kirkpatrick (an alias of white nationalist Kevin DeAnna) by stating: “It's great to be with you. Big admirer of you all and what you're doing in VDare. And so I'm excited to be together.”

Martin also repeatedly hosted VDare leader and white nationalist Peter Brimelow on his now-defunct radio program The Ed Martin Movement. During an episode that aired on November 29, 2018, Martin praised Brimelow as “a guy worth listening to” and told him, “I'm always glad to give you a voice, you’re always welcome here.” (In addition to leading VDare, Brimelow has, among other things, pushed an effort to “rethink Martin Luther King Day,” “arguing that MLK was a deeply flawed figure and an inappropriate role model for American whites.”)

The segment featured Brimelow and Martin complaining that the Spanish language doesn’t belong in the country.

Martin began by asking why people aren’t required to speak English and complaining that “everywhere you go now, everything seems to be in both English and Spanish.” He added: “If you actually believe in the argument that people are — that are coming here, that the immigrants that come legally — that part of the way you become an American, a part of the nation, is you learn the customs, you learn the way of life in lots of ways. And one of them is the language. Is there nobody that’s — are there any leaders that are pushing the English-only, that issue?”

Brimelow stated, in part, that in the United States “obviously you have foreign language colonies springing up. There is no longer a true nation. It’s becoming an empire.”

Martin also co-wrote a 2016 book in which he suggested that the United States should accept immigrants only from European countries and that immigration from “Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East” “tears apart our nation’s heritage and social fabric.” His book included a citation to VDare in its section about “Anchor babies on welfare."

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Mary O’Neill is the Executive Director and finance manager of America’s Future, Inc., guiding the nonprofit organization’s administration, operations, finances, and educational programming to fulfill its mission to preserve American values and ideals, protect the nation’s Constitutional Republic, promote strong American families, revitalize the role of faith in our society, and advance the virtues of free market capitalism.

She has successfully led the implementation of numerous initiatives that have revitalized the legacy organization such as its multimedia educational projects, Passing The Torch Of Freedom video series; America book series including, Exploring America’s Founding Documents and Understanding The Separation of Powers Principles; podcast series, America’s Mondays With Mary, and other America’s Future programs like its popular weekly newsletter, Champions For America member network, scholarship and grant programs, and Amicus brief filings defending the constitutional rights of Americans. In addition, Mary oversees the Little Flower Advisory Board of “Project Defend & Protect Our Children,” established by America’s Future to eradicate the exploitation and trafficking of children – the future of America.

Mary has decades of experience working in leadership positions in the nonprofit and private sectors to help organizations accomplish their goals.

Prior to America’s Future, Mary was an executive with the Diocese of Providence for over 10 years as Finance Director for two Catholic Churches in Newport, Rhode Island, one of which is the renowned St. Mary’s Church, named to the National Register of Historic Places, and internationally known as the location of the marriage of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

Previously, she worked for the Preservation Society of Newport County, a nationally-recognized nonprofit organized to preserve local historic properties and deliver educational programs on the history of America’s culture and heritage. Earlier in her career, she owned several start-ups and was the founder and owner-operator of one of the nation’s most acclaimed indoor skateboarding parks, Skater Island, where many of the top skateboard pros of today were discovered.

Mary’s volunteer involvement is extensive as an advocate for the protection of children from harmful environments and providing care and counseling to families with loved ones in hospice care. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Phoenix. Throughout her life’s journey, she has used her professional and personal experiences to seek out the best in others and find ways to nurture and guide individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve success.

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Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.)

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Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, USA (Ret.) dedicated his life in service to the nation with the U.S. Army for more than 33 years. His distinguished military career culminated as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and as the nation’s highest-serving military intelligence officer.

Upon his retirement in 2014, General Flynn continued serving the public in leadership positions with various business, veteran, and civic organizations. In 2017, he was appointed as the country’s 25th National Security Advisor to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

As an expert in Diplomacy, Statecraft, Foreign Policy, Strategy Formulation, Defense, Intelligence, and other areas of national and international security, General Flynn is a prominent commentator and sought-after speaker on military and global affairs.

He is a national bestselling author of The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies. He is also the author of A Letter To America: The Time To Fight For Your Faith And Family Is Now and co-author of The Citizen’s Guide To Fifth Generation Warfare. His numerous articles, essays, and papers have been published worldwide.

General Flynn has earned three master’s degrees and is the recipient of numerous civilian, military, intelligence, and law enforcement awards.

He is married with two sons and has several grandchildren.

Lara Logan

BOARD MEMBER

Lara Logan is an award-winning investigative journalist. She is known internationally for her fearless and candid reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world in her role at “60 Minutes” and for her investigative series “Lara Logan Has No Agenda.” Lara has covered some of the most controversial topics of our time such as media bias, Mexican drug cartels, trafficking, and the dangers of Big Tech.

With decades of honest reporting and speaking up for the truth regardless of the politics, Lara is a powerful voice for freedom and liberty around the world. Her trusted reporting has helped the public understand the political and human conflicts that exist in America and around the globe. Her skilled approach to investigative journalism has earned her a prominent place among the world’s best foreign correspondents. She is the recipient of almost every journalistic and reporting award in the profession including the highly prestigious duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, the Overseas Press Club, the Emmys, and the RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award, to name a few.

Presently, she is planning the launch of her new show and establishing the “Press Club of America” as a home for independent journalism that carries on the principles and standards of the past, while creating a solid foundation for the media moving forward.

Tracy Diaz

BOARD MEMBER

Tracy Diaz is an investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief at UncoverDC.com.

An entrepreneur and successful C-level executive, Tracy also has wide-ranging experience in the political realm. Tracy was instrumental to the grassroots fervor that gripped the nation during the height of the Tea Party and the Ron Paul movement toward freedom and liberty.

Tracy’s political experience starts at the grassroots level and moves all the way up the spectrum to establishment politics. She has dedicated her life to preserving American freedom.

Her business acumen, investigative skills, leadership qualities, and success at corralling social media make her an asset to any organization dedicated to American values. She is happily married and has two teenage children.

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Paul S. Hoffecker is the CEO of HMI (Hyperbaric Medicine International) and the Hyperbaric Medicine Foundation. Both nonprofit organizations promote a standard of medical care, using hyperbaric oxygen therapy for an array of medical and wellness conditions.

Paul’s career spans across decades of experience in healthcare administration, commercial and remodeling construction, senior project management, and business consulting. He is also the Founder and President of Renovating Hope, Inc. which rebuilt hundreds of homes throughout our country for wounded service members and veterans. He works closely with the functional medical advocates in the U.S. military that strive to bend the curve in our nation’s suicide rate.

Paul is a staunch defender of the Constitution.

He is married with one adult son and lives in Florida.

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[ali Alexander and other "Stop the Steal" activists at Dec. 15, 2020 press conference (Image from NTD livestream posted on Epoch Times YouTube channel.)

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Right-wing activists who falsely insist that President Donald Trump won reelection held a press conference Tuesday to talk about their path forward after Electoral College votes cast in every state Monday formally affirmed Joe Biden’s presidential win. The activists threatened to unseat congressional Republicans who do not go along with their demands to object to certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.

“Stop the Steal” organizers Ali Alexander and Ed Martin were joined by Arizona state Sen. Anthony Kern, political strategist Alexander Bruesewitz (who is also working with the Stop the Steal campaign), and two Republican electors from Michigan who unsuccessfully attempted to crash the official count at their state capitol on Monday.

“Trump did win this election,” said Kern, claiming that it is being “stolen from the American people.” He said that if Republican members of Congress do their jobs, Trump will serve for another four years.

“We are being gaslit,” Alexander said. “This is apsychological operation on the American people, and patriots are standing up to say, ‘Enough of this.’”

“The constitutional process has not been exhausted,”said Alexander, who had previously announced that Rep. Mo Brooks, R-AL, would object to House certification of the Electoral College vote in January. On Tuesday, he said six other members of the House had agreed to join Brooks and that Stop the Steal activists are pressuring the 126 House Republicans who supported the Texas attorney general’s failed lawsuit to join the effort to disrupt the certification.

Alexander has previously threatened that pro-Trump activists would “burn it all down” if the Republican Party fails to stand with Trump in his effort to stay in power. That threat was a major theme of Tuesday’s press conference. Speakers slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for referring to Joe Biden as the president-elect and for reportedly urging Republican senators not to support the effort to challenge the election outcome.

Brusewitz, identified as CEO of X Strategies,called McConnell’s remarks a “disgrace” and was blunt about plans to go after Senate Republicans who fail to stand with Trump until the bitter end. He claimed to have spoken with “many billionaires” who he said are willing to fund primary challenges in 2022. He warned McConnell—who Republican incumbents will be relying on for campaign cash—that the 2022 primary season would be “very expensive.”

“We are going to primary everyone who has said anything awful about exercising our constitutional options,”Alexander said. And he said grassroots pro-Trump activists will “take on” the Republican National Committee by seeking to replace party officials, beginning with upcoming state conventions.

Martin, who also heads the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, warned that the GOP would ignore the grassroots at its own peril, a remark seconded by one of the Michigan activists, who declared, “This is Trump’s party.”

In response to a reporter’s question about whether Trump had been undermined by members of his own team, Alexander said that one day a book will be written about the betrayals of Trump from within the White House and the RNC.

Alexander, who combined forces with right-wing religious leaders and activists to host last Saturday’s pro-Trump “prayer rally” on the National Mall, declared that Stop the Steal is “a spiritual movement.”

“Our hope is in Christ. Our hope is in God. And our hope is in the founding documents, the Constitution that we must continue to exhaust,” he said.

Tags: Alex Bruesewitz Ali Alexander Anthony Kern Ed Martin Christian Nation Disinformation Election 2020 Republican Party Stop the Steal Phyllis Schlafly Eagles

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stop-the-steal-activists-demand-congressional-republicans-give-election-to-trump-threaten-retaliation-if-they-dont/

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The Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, another prominent right-wing organization, hosted Posobiec at dinners at least twice, during 2018 and 2019. Allies of Posobiec’s who went on to push Trump’s disinformation about the 2020 election – including Cernovich, the junk news specialist Fairbanks, Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn – also attended one or the other of these dinners. Beyond Stone, Posobiec has ties to others who advised former President Trump, including Flynn and Steve Bannon.

Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s son, associates publicly with Posobiec.The men congregated at Bannon’s anti-immigrant We Build the Wall event in July 2019, as SPLC’s Hatewatch previously reported. Authorities charged Bannon and co-host Brian Kolfage with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering over allegedly misusing funds they generated through the event. (Trump pardoned Bannon of the crime before leaving office in 2021.) Trump Jr. and Posobiec first started following each other on the site sometime in 2017, Hatewatch found. Trump’s son frequently reposts Posobiec’s Twitter content. Posobiec sent private text messages to former Breitbart editor Kate McHugh describing Trump Jr. as being “redpilled [as fuck].” “Redpilled” is an internet slang word that connotes different degrees of far-right radicalization.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who spent $25 million to buoy Trump’s election lies, uses Posobiec as a pitchman for his pillows. Posobiec sells MyPillow merchandise through his verified Twitter handle, offering his followers a discount through a special promo code. Twitter suspended Lindell from its platform in January 2021 for publishing lies about the 2020 election. They also suspended the MyPillow Twitter account, making Posobiec the site’s most visible hype man for Lindell’s products.

Similarly, Posobiec has long promoted videos created by the hard-right activist group Project Veritas. Twitter suspended accounts related to Project Veritas and its founder James O’Keefe in 2021 over alleged violations related to “platform manipulation and spam.” Posobiec has continued to promote Project Veritas videos through his account, giving them visibility on the site. He tweeted “Project Veritas is infrastructure” on April 13, 2021, while the group hyped up a campaign they created, targeted at CNN. Twitter suspended O’Keefe days later.

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nfighting at Eagle Forum over Trump nomination creates uncertainty about group's direction and future.

It’s been a difficult week for Phyllis Schlafly, considered a matriarch of the conservative movement in America, and the leadership at Eagle Forum, the hard right organization originally founded in 1972 as “Stop ERA” by Schlafly in opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (the organization was re-named Eagle Forum in 1975). The Forum and Schlafly espouse conservative conspiracy theories such as fears of the "North American Union" (the alleged union of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. into an evil cabal); and fears of immigration, which may lead to "sharia law," an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory that claims Islamic law will supercede the U.S. Constitution. Schlafly has also claimed that marital rape does not exist and that gay marriage advocates are trying to "wipe out Christianity."

Schlafly started her week by finding out that six executive board members of Eagle Forum were planning a coup. Several members of the board of directors seem to have taken issue with Schlafly’s public endorsement of presidential hopeful Donald Trump, and have been attempting to remove Ed Martin, Eagle Forum president.

The upheaval appears to have been coordinated by Schlafly’s first vice president, Eunie Smith, currently the president of the Eagle Forum’s Alabama chapter, and Schlafly’s own daughter, Anne (Schlafly) Cori.

Schlafly continues to garner support from members of various Eagle Forum chapters around the country, and also from Ed Martin, who became president last year.  Martin was allegedly ousted by the board at a board meeting held April 11. Smith claims the board made the decision because of Martin’s “character and management style,” but she also denied that Schlafly had been removed as chairman of the board.

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In spite of the board’s decision, Martin claimed on a St. Louis radio show that he was still the president of Eagle Forum. The board made a number of other appointments at the meeting. Anne Cori was promoted from vice chairman of the board to executive director of Eagle Forum and Eunie Smith was named the interim president as the group will apparently be launching a search for a new leader.

Schlafly, who was apparently present at the board meeting that unseated Martin, had publicly addressed this “Gang of 6” in a public letter, according to the conservative site Daily Caller and asked for their immediate resignations from the organization. Martin echoed this message in a statement he issued through the Eagle Forum Missouri chapter’s Facebook page.

Schlafly and Martin claim that the attempt to remove Schlafly was to gain access to monetary funds that Eagle Forum has been collecting over the years. Eunie Smith and her fellow board members responded by countering with a message of their own--that the board meeting was pre-planned and in accordance with Eagle Forum bylaws, though Smith also accused Martin of “slanderous, libelous, and without merit” statements against her.

At this juncture, the fortunes of the Eagle Forum remain uncertain, though it appears that the board is moving forward with its own agenda.

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Beclowning Themselves: The Far-Right Reacts to the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings | Right Wing Watch

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the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been holding public hearings for two weeks now, but take a look at right-wing media and its personalities and you’d hardly know it.

Right-wing and far-right activists have largely ignored the hearings or, when they have addressed it, painted the hearings as “propaganda” or a “partisan witch hunt.” Others, still, haven’t been able to resist criticizing those Republicans they feel betrayed by.

Here’s how a few right-wing activists, many of whom have been subpoenaed for their role in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, have responded. 

Mike Cernovich—a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist with the so-called Stop the Steal campaign—had this to say about the Jan. 6 hearings: “Nobody cares, dude!”

Cernovich had joined former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon a day before the opening hearing on the June 8:{episode}: of Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. Asked how right-wing media, including the “War Room,” should respond to the Jan. 6 hearings—whether or not they should mention it or launch counterprogramming—Cernovich offered some counterintuitive advice. 

“Whatever we can do to get Democrats to talk more about Jan. 6 we should do, so whatever gets them hyperventilating, crying—oh, seven people died that day? Yeah, they were Trump supporters,” Cernovich said. 

In fact, five police officers:{died}: and about 150 were injured as a result of Trump loyalists’ attack on the Capitol. Another four in the crowd died.

“But what we don’t want to lose sight of is that they are beclowning themselves, so the key for us is to stay on message. Yeah, a woman was shot in the neck and bled out,” he said. “The key to keep in mind is the Democrats look like unserious people, unfit to govern because they’re hyperventilating over an event they compare to 9/11.”

Cernovich has since called the hearings “propaganda.”

Bannon—who was indicted for refusing to respond to a Jan. 6 committee subpoena—referred to the Jan. 6 hearings as a “show trial” and lambasted Fox News for its coverage.

While major news networks carried the first primetime hearing live on June 9, Fox aired:{counterprogramming by Tucker Carlson:(style="box-sizing:border-box;transition-duration:0.2s;transition-property:background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform;transition-timing-function:linear"):}:, who took no commercial breaks less his viewers be tempted to tune into the hearing. 

But since then, the network has:{covered the Jan. 6 hearings}: held in non primetime hours, and network analysts were so moved by Republican testimonies during Tuesday’s hearing that one said it suggests:{Trump “may be guilty of a crime”}: and that it “shows his unfitness” for office. And that Bannon finds to be sinful.

“Fox News shows their hand—all in on taking down President Trump—now it’s out in the open—IF YOU WATCH FOX U ARE ONLY AIDING AND ABETTING THEIR ANTI-TRUMP HATE,” Bannon wrote in a June 21:{post}: on GETTR.

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“If this was a real committee, they would have another panel of witnesses like me!” said Trump lawyerCleta Mitchell—who was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee for her role in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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“All Raffensperger cared about was getting good press from the liberal media and having all of the left-wing reporters fawning over him, and that’s why they were there today, because that’s his number one priority,” Mitchell claimed.

“If this was a real committee, they would have another panel of witnesses like me!” said Mitchell—who was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee for her role in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. She went on to call the Jan. 6 committee a “kangaroo committee.” 

Other political operatives involved in the so-called Stop the Steal disinformation campaign to keep Trump in power were clearly watching.

Ed Martin—a mentor to Ali Alexanderwho was subpoenaed for his role in the so-called Stop the Steal campaign—portrayed the hearings as “pure propaganda,” held “just to destroy Donald Trump.”

Ali Alexander—theleader of the so-called Stop the Steal campaign with a penchant for violent rhetoric—doubled down on his criticism of former Vice President Mike Pence. “Pence betrayed us,” he declared on June 16, the day after the committee detailed Trump and his allies’ pressure campaign on Pence to illegally overturn the election. The committee also illustrated how this pressure campaign led rioters to call for Pence’s hanging on Jan. 6 when he refused to do Trump’s bidding. 

“Mike Pence is WRONG,” Alexander:{wrote}: in the June 16 Telegram post. “No one asked him to overturn the election.”

“Pence was the presiding officer,” Alexander continued. “He could do nearly anything he could justify. The body could overrule him with a 2/3rds vote but that’s it. Pence betrayed us and is lying about the law and the rule.”

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D’Souza fumed. “Bill Barr is the stereotypical small-town sheriff, overweight and largely immobile, whose rank incompetence results in the whole town being robbed from under his nose,” he wrote on:{Twitter}:, adding, “Fatso.” 

Trump confidant Roger Stone, meanwhile,:{slammed}:fellow Trump ally Jason Miller, calling him a “lying scumbag” for his testimony. Miller testified that Trump lawyer RudyGiuliani encouraged Trump to falsely declare victory on election night and that he was intoxicated while doing so. 

“What a backstabbing asshole,” Stone wrote in a June 13 Telegram:{post}:. Stone has been:{subpoenaed}: by the select committee.

Some, like Alexander, made it clear they stood by their actions on Jan. 6, 2021. 

As Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol behind him, Ali Alexander pointed to the unfolding scene and said, “I do not denounce this.” While he once tried to claim the video published on his campaign’s page (and captured by Right Wing Watch) was a “deep fake,” he reversed his stance this week and said he stood by his comments on the roof that day. 

“If I had stood on this rooftop and denounced our movement instead of doubling down on it, I would’ve saved myself a lifetime of grief and $100,000 in legal bills,” Alexander wrote in a June 20 post. “And I would’ve lost my soul. I have no regrets. … a government for and by the people.”

That didn’t stop him from claiming persecution. After the June 23 hearing, which revealed the lengths to which Trump and Republican members of Congress went to corrupt the DOJ, Alexander took to Telegram. “We’re being persecuted by the Security State (SS) and our ‘team’ doesn’t even have a response,” Alexander wrote.

When on Monday, reporters briefly speculated that Alexander might be the select committee’s “surprise witness” for Tuesday’s hearing, Alexander released a statement that he would not be testifying publicly but that he would like to do so. Alexander—who spread disinformation about the 2020 election and Jan. 6—then had the gall to declare that “Misinformation is polluting the January 6th narratives.”

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Tags: Ali Alexander Cleta Mitchell Dinesh D'Souza Ed Martin Jason Miller Marjorie Taylor Greene Mike Cernovich Mike Pence Nick Fuentes Roger Stone Stephen K. Bannon William Barr Capitol Insurrection conspiracy theories House select committee on Jan. 6 Jan. 6

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"I was the person that came up with the Jan. 6 idea with Congressman Gosar, Congressman Mo Brooks, and then Congressman Andy Biggs,” GOP operative Ali Alexander said in a Dec. 28, 2020, Periscope video. “We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting, so that who we couldn’t lobby, we could change the hearts and the minds of Republicans who were in that body, hearing our loud roar from outside.”

The video, which was captured by investigative reporter Jason Paladino before it was deleted, highlights the role played by Alexander, his so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, and far-right members of Congress in the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack launches its first public hearings June 9, and Alexander and “Stop the Steal” are likely to figure prominently in its findings. Alexander sat for eight hours of testimony in front of the committee on Dec. 9, and in April, a lawyer for Alexander said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation—a claim on which Alexander promptly threw cold water.

Right Wing Watch extensively covered Ali Alexander and the so-called Stop the Steal movement ahead of Jan. 6. Here’s what you need to know.

Who is Ali Alexander? What is “Stop the Steal”?

On Nov. 4, 2020, as mail-in ballots began to be counted and shifted the election in favor of Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump falsely declared that the ongoing efforts to count millions of outstanding ballots were an indication of fraud and that he had in fact won.

Hours later, Alexander publicly launched “Stop the Steal,” a campaign to get right-wing activists to discredit mail-in voting, disrupt vote-counting, and ​falsely accuse Democrats of stealing the presidential election. The campaign held its first rally outside Arizona’s state capitol building in Phoenix that evening, featuring Rep. Paul Gosar, who with a bullhorn in hand, addressed the crowd before introducing “Pizzagate” booster Mike Cernovich, who threatened imaginary anti-fascist activists. 

And so began months of “Stop the Steal” rallies featuring far-right members of Congress, QAnon and election conspiracy theorists, Christian nationalists, and far-right anti-government groups, all under the MAGA banner.

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Alexander, née Ali Akbar, has long worked in Republican politics, coming up under the tutelage of “dirty trickster” Roger Stone. He has connections to deep pockets, too: ​a PAC advised byAlexander received a $60,000 donation in 2016 from pro-Trump billionaire Robert Mercer​. These Republican connections have persisted despite his habit of noting when members of the media he criticizes are Jewish and despite associating with far-right figures like Unite the Right white supremacist attendee Matt Colligan and members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys.

Alexander’s “Stop the Steal” campaign wasn’t the first to go by that name. Longtime GOP operative and Trump confidant Roger Stone first popularized the phrase “Stop the Steal” during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, Alexander,  Stone, and far-right commentator Jack Posobiec launched a “Stop the Steal” campaign during a ballot recount for Florida’s Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson. Pro-Trump activists from around the country descended on Florida to protest and spread misinformation, insisting that Democrats were trying to “steal” the election from Scott. It served as a dry run for the 2020 presidential election. Sure enough, in September 2020, Posobiec and Alexander discussed rebooting the campaign. 

What was their role in the lead up to Jan. 6?

Alexander served as the lead organizer for “Stop the Steal.” The campaign targeted Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—battleground states won by Joe Biden and whose cities are home to predominantly Black and brown voters—holding rallies and spreading election disinformation on social media.

He called on figures he knew from his time as a member of the highly secretiveCouncil for National Policy and through his years in Republican politics to join the effort, including activists Amy and Kylie Kremer, Jack Posobiec, Brandon Straka, Scott Presler, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. He brought into the fold Trump’s short-lived national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump team attorneys Sidney Powell and Lin Wood—who have since been disciplined for bringing false lawsuits alleging election fraud. Most joined the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement in a public capacity; others promoted the same messaging through their own organizations and organized behind the scenes.

Ali Alexander and other “Stop the Steal” activists at Dec. 15, 2020 press conference (Image from NTD livestream posted on Epoch Times YouTube channel.)]

Alexander welcomed extremists into the campaign’s ranks. Male supremacist Mike Cernovich, white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were among the first to answer Alexander’s call. Alongside white nationalist Patrick Casey, Vincent James, and Baked Alaska, Fuentes galvanized crowds of white men to attend “Stop the Steal” rallies across the county, while Jones spread disinformation through his Infowars network, raised funds for the Jan. 6 rally, and brought a caravan of supporters to rallies.

On Nov. 14, “Stop the Steal” came to the nation’s capital. Thousands of Trump loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and members of far-right groups took to the streets. Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn—all recently elected to Congress—addressed the crowd alongside organizers. Radical conspiracy theorist Alex Jones yelled unintelligibly into a bullhorn. Members of the Proud Boys hate group roamed the streets looking for fights and found them late in the evening.Fuentes’ America First group, ​a youth-focused white-nationalist outfit, commanded the crowd’s attention with chants of “America First.”

A second Dec. 12 rally was deeply steeped in Christian nationalist and violent rhetoric. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law, threatening a “much more bloody war”should he fail to do so.

While rallies brought the whole of the MAGA movement together, Alexander held regular Periscopes to spread disinformation and provide action items to Trump supporters.

Alexander called on “Stop the Steal” activists to lobby the state legislatures of battleground states won by Joe Biden to ignore the election results andsend Republican electors to the electoral collegeto give Trump enough electoral votes.He called on state Republican legislators to declare the election fraudulent and threatened them with a primary challenger should they not.

By mid-December, right-wing activists and lawyers were focused on Jan. 6, the day Congress would certify the electoral votes. More than 100 House members and a dozen Senators committed to voting against certifying the election. Trump and the apparatus around him began to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to use his ceremonial duty to block or delay Biden’s certification. “Stop the Steal” fed into that pressure, with “Stop the Steal” friend Lin Wood going as far as to call for the vice president’s execution.

On Dec. 19, Trump declared it “[s]tatistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election.” [~ his own # guy 1/6 hearing] He encouraged his followers to come to D.C.: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”

Alexander had already planned a Jan. 6 D.C. protest, but he began fighting his one-time fellow activists Kylie and Amy Kremer for control of the big Jan. 6 rally. The Kremers had used the “Stop the Steal” banner for their cross country bus tour and a competing December rally, much to Alexander’s chagrin. ProPublica reported that Katrina Pierson, whom the White House put in charge of the rally planning, “helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5.” That meant Alexander and his cohort were relegated to speaking on the evening of Jan. 5, while the Kremers took the lead on the Jan. 6 event held at the Ellipse.Alexander held that Jan. 5 rally and planned his own separate “wild” Jan. 6 protest on the east side of the Capitolbuilding to follow the main “Save America” rally.

Alexander spent weeks in the lead up to the Capitol insurrection calling for “rebellion,” starting chants of “victory or death,” and using rhetoric of the American Revolution and spiritual warfare to call for action should Congress certify the election of President Joe Biden. He engaged in violent rhetoric, appearing to even advocate for physical attacks against members of Congress who he said stole the election. 

The Jan. 5 rally served as the penultimate event of those calls. Speakers delivered Christian nationalist messages and veiled threats of violenceif Congress failed to reject Biden electors. Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox told rally-goers that the United States was on the brink of a revolution and that he would “take the first bullet.” Right Wing Watch reported at the time: 

Standing in front of a sign declaring “MARTIAL LAW NOW,” so-called Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander led the crowd in chants of “Victory or death!” Alexander told activists, “Our government is only our government if it is legitimate” and declared, “1776 is always an option.” [new boogaloo? less racist?] He said Stop the Steal activists were starting “a rebellion against the Deep State.”

What was Ali Alexander and the campaign’s role on Jan. 6?

On the day of the insurrection, Alexander took to Twitter early in the morning to declare it the “First official day of the rebellion.” Alexander was supposed to hold his “wild” protest by the Capitol, but it would never materialize.

Trump loyalists packed into the Ellipse, eager to stop what they saw as a fraudulent election. Speaking from the stage and wearing a bulletproof vest, Rep. Mo Brooks, whom Alexander had recently called a friend, told attendees that Jan. 6 is “the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. … Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America? Louder! Will you fight for America?”

“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump told the crowd. He urged activists to march to the Capitol to make their voices heard. They did as they were told.

Leaving the rally at the Ellipse after Trump’s speech, where he was a VIP guest with far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Alexander followed Jones through the Capitol grounds, past barricades, and up the Capitol steps. At that point—around 2 p.m.—the Capitol had already been breached.

“Democrats and Media ended the Republic and the people responded. Welcome to ‘duhhh’,” he tweeted an hour later.

Alexander emerged on One America News Network’s terrace overlooking the Capitol to record a video, posted on the “Stop the Steal” Twitter account by his associate Michael Coudrey at 4:26 p.m.—well after the violence had begun.

“I don’t disavow this. I do not denounce this,” Alexander said, gesturing to the scene behind him. Trump loyalists were descending on the Capitol and up the Capitol steps. “This is completely peaceful, looks like, so far. And there are a couple of agitators that I obviously don’t endorse,” he claimed despite having seen what took place on the steps not long before. By the end of the video, Alexander was back to encouraging rebellion. “StoptheSteal.us is going to be the home of the rebellion against an illegitimate government.”

Right Wing Watch captured the video, which was later deleted.

Where is Ali Alexander now?

Ali Alexander went into hiding following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.In February, he briefly reappeared and said he had been plotting to restart rallies in March,abolish the media, and build a separate society for Trump supporters. He declared that “civil war” was the only outcome available to those who opposed Biden’s presidency.

But Alexander was kicked off Twitter and most mainstream social media platforms. He lost access to his Venmo, Cashapp, and Paypal. He turned to alternative social media platforms and briefly became a Bitcoin influencer. 

In October 2021, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued three subpoenas to Alexander, the Stop the Steal organization, and Nathan Martin, who worked with Alexander and reserved the Jan. 6 rally space. Alexander accused the government of “gaslighting” and blamed the violence on “agitators dressed in militant outfits.” Jan. 6, he said, was a government “psyop.”

In December 2021, Alexander testified for eight hours in a closed-door hearing andasked the House select committee to suspend reality. In a draft of his opening statement, which was leaked to the New York Times, he denied wrongdoing and passed the buck, placing blame for the violence on Katrina Pierson, Kylie Kremer, and Amy Kremer. 

In a lawsuit seeking to prevent the select committee from obtaining his phone records, Alexander confirmed to congressional investigators that ahead of Jan. 6, he had communicated with several GOP congressmen—Reps. Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks, and Andy Biggs—as well as with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and member of Trump’s inner circle.

In April, a lawyer for Alexander said he would cooperate with the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 investigation. The following day, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show to suggest he wouldn’t cooperate.He went on to call the effort to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a conspiracy to “stop Trump from running in 2024” and “usher in a New World Order.”

A few days later, Alexander joined Alex Jones’ show again. He mused that “there is a time for legitimate violence when there is legitimate tyranny.”

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pix: archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (Image from LifeSiteNews video praising his recent letter to President Donald Trump)

Ed Martin, the Phyllis Schlafly acolyte who will be speaking at a Washington, D.C. rally planned for Saturday and dubbed “Stop the Steal” by its organizers, was joined by far-right Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Martin’s weekly prayer call Friday.

Viganò is a leader of the hard right within the Catholic Church who has lavished praise on President Donald Trump while promoting right-wing conspiracy theories about the “deep state” and the “deep church.”  Since the results of the presidential election came rolling in, the religious right has jumped on the false voter fraud narrative being peddled by Trump and the Stop the Steal campaign, claiming that forces of evil were at work to prevent God’s will.

On Martin’s Friday call, Viganò described the current post-election period as a “historic moment for the future of the United States of America.”

“Forces of evil have gathered in coalition against God, against our Christian civilization, against your beloved country, against the family, against all of it, against the values for which your forefathers fought and gave their lives,” Viganò said.

He directly addressed the election, saying that “the kingdom of darkness has sought to subvert the outcome of the presidential elections, through such deception and fraud as to suggest a real attack on the very foundation of human social coexistence.”

He prayed that God would bless Trump and “drive back into Hell the enemy of mankind.”

Trump campaigned hard for the votes of conservative Catholics, telling them that Democrats “want to put the churches out of business.”

Viganò is a fierce critic of Pope Francis.National Catholic Reporter, an independent Catholic news outlet with a progressive outlook, published a profile of Viganò in 2018, which suggested that hiseagerness to publicly attack church officials may be traced to his being denied a promotion to cardinal.

Tags: Carlo Viganò Ed Martin Election 2020 Stop the Steal

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pence-to-speak-to-secretive-council-for-national-policy-friday-cnp-members-involved-in-saturdays-stop-the-steal-rally/

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As the results of the 2020 presidential election came rolling in, Vice President Mike Pence was notably out of sight ​and had even planned a Florida vacation for this week. But with ​the ratcheting up of Trump’s campaign to contest the outcome of the election, CNN reported that Pence canceled his getaway, remaining inside the Beltway ​to address the Council for National Policy, a highly secretive organization that includes some of the most powerful conservatives in the country.

As Pence stands at the podium before marquee names in conservative politics Friday, pro-Trump, far-right activists are making their way to Washington, D.C., for a rally organized and supported by some of the very right-wing leaders likely sitting in that room.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars network are leading a caravan of Trump supporters to D.C.,Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia has promised to station his armed men outside of the District borders should Trump call on them, and the Proud Boys hate group has encouraged its members to to the nation’s capital, with leader Enrique Tarrio declaring Trump’s “Standby order has been rescinded.”

They, along with other ​conspiracy theorists, far-right groups and other Trump loyalists, have all promised to go to the Saturday event that goes by three names​: Million MAGA March, March for Trump, and Stop the Steal—to push a false narrative that voter fraud cost Trump the election. The event has been promoted by Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

GOP operative Ali Alexander,who organized the gathering, was clear on the rally’s demands in a ​Nov. 10 Periscopepost. “We’re going down to the Supreme Court,​” he said, “and we’re telling our government that this election and the counting will be transparent, or we’ll get a new election. One or another.”

And they wouldn’t be on their way without​ the leadership and support of current and past Council for National Policy members for the Stop the Steal campaign. ​The CNP, which has been around since the Reagan administration, holds closed-door meetings, tells members not to speak to the press about the council, and has tried to keep membership rolls private, but its members’ names have leaked over the years.

Notable CNP members include Ginni Thomas, the influential wife of Clarence Thomas, and Tony Perkins, a former president of the organization and the current president of the Family Research Council, according to a 2020 membership directory published by Documented. CNP has also welcomed far-right figures like neo-Confederate Christian Reconstructionist Michael Peroutka, a major funder of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s advocacy and political career.

CNP ​also counts among its members Ed Martin of ​Phyllis Schlafly Eagles,Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who has allied himself with dominionists and Christian nationalists in the past year—all of whom have pushed ​Stop the Steal messaging since Alexander launched the campaign and called on them to join it.

Martin has led sparsely attended D.C. rallies and blasted Phyllis Schlafly Eagles’ email list with Stop the Steal talking points, while Kirk attended a rally in Phoenix and took to conservative media to promote it. Though it does not appear Fitton has used the #StoptheSteal hashtag, he has echoed the campaign’s language, alleged an “electoral coup,” accusedstates of voter fraud, and called for votes to stop being counted in others.

Amy Kremer, who was listed as a member in a 2014 membership directory obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is organizing in the state of Georgia for Stop the Steal events.Even Ali Alexander, who formerly went by Ali Akbar, is listed twice by both names as a signee on a 2017 letter from CNP to Donald Trump obtained by the Christian Post. David Armiak of the Center for Media and Democracy has also reported on some of these connections.

On Nov. 4, as Americans ​awoke to see Trump’s election night lead overtaken by the counting of mail-in ballots, which came in record numbers for Joe Biden, Alexander was expressed dismay. On Twitter, he suggested that the Republican Party should have adopted his 2018 Stop the Steal operation, which he had launched with ​the help of Trump confidant and since convicted felon Roger Stone​ during the recount of Florida’s 2018 U.S. Senate race.

​On the day after the 2020 election, Alexander said he had no intention of rebooting it, but about an hour later, he suggested the only way he would restart the operation would be if a few key players were on board—among them, Tom Fitton, Amy Kremer, and Ed Martin. By around 2 p.m. that day, he’d added Charlie Kirk and others to the list.

"he’s decided only to do it under certain conditions and those conditions seem to be CNP support,” ​said Stephanie Lamy, a French information warfare researcher with Danaides who flagged the series of tweets​. “That’s very clear from this tweet by the people he mentions.”

And there’s good reason to ​seek CNP support given its power and its expertise in ​advancing unsubstantiated voter fraud narratives.

Last month, The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow got ​his hands on videos from an Aug. 21 CNP conference held at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City. Fitton, who Alexander called on to be in charge of the legal aspect of the ​Stop the Steal campaign, zeroed in on mail-in voting.“We need to stop those ballots from going out, and I want the lawyers here to tell us what to do,” Fitton said. “But this is a crisis that we’re not prepared for. I mean, our side is not prepared for.”

J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, also attacked mail-in voting at that meeting, telling activists, “Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor, you’re a racist and so forth.” Adams, a known voter suppressor, was also part of Trump administration’s short-lived “Commission on Election Integrity,” which folded after findingno evidence to support claims of widespread voter fraud. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Adams’ legal organization has issued two lawsuits since Nov. 4 claimingvoter fraud.

Current CNP Treasurer Kenneth Blackwell has promoted Stop the Steal on Twitterand Facebook and, as Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery reported, baselessly charged Monday that “the Democrat-run Pennsylvania executive government only wants votes counted that support their agenda and their candidates.”

Trump himself has addressed CNP members—as recently as the Aug. 21 meeting and in the beginning of his campaign in 2015. According to The National Review, of the six Republican presidential candidates who addressed CNP in 2015, Trump was the “star attraction.”

Tags: Ali AkbarAli Alexander Amy Kremer Charlie Kirk Donald Trump Ed Martin Ginni Thomas J Christian Adams Ken Blackwell Michael Peroutka Mike Pence Tom Fitton Tony Perkins Disinformation Stop the Steal  Voter Fraud  Council for National Policy

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-operative-ali-alexander-leads-stop-the-steal-campaign/

right-wing political operative Ali Alexander has brought back “Stop the Steal,” a campaign to get right-wing activists to discredit mail-in voting, disrupt vote-counting, and ​falsely accuse Democrats of stealing the presidential election—presumably because legally cast ballots are being counted in states that have yet to declare the winner of the 2020 presidential contest. (Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears to be prevailing among votes cast by mail-in ballots.)

The move comes after President Donald Trump declared a premature victory in the early morning hours Wednesday and accused Democrats of mass voter fraud, a false narrative he’s been pushing for months about mail-in voting. At a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Philadelphia, Trump’s legal team, including conspiracy theorist and Trump sycophant Rudy Giuliani, doubled down on those claims, as have right-wing activists. The race is still too close to call, but as more mail-in ballots have begun to be counted, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has taken the lead. 

In a panicked Periscope broadcast Wednesday evening, Alexander said he was “busy organizing thousands and thousands and thousands of people” to join “voter integrity” rallies in Phoenix, Arizona, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Detroit, Michigan, Madison, Wisconsin, and Atlanta, Georgia, (and perhaps Nevada) to protest. Alexander said the first rally would feature “Pizzagate” booster Mike Cernovichat the capitol in Arizona at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, claiming that they’d have hundreds there and 10,000 attendees there by Friday. Asecond rally took place Wednesday night in Las Vegas. Alexander encouraged viewers to go to a website where they could register with the campaign and explained how he hoped to draw attention to these rallies. 

“We’re matching influencers with operatives, so every influencer will have an operative there also working with local media, capturing all the vehicles going in and out ‘dropping of ballots,’” Alexander said. “We’re gonna capture everything.”

“If you need a plane ticket, I’ll PayPal you money, because people have sent me money,” Alexander said, before clarifying, “We’re flying giant influencers. We’re flying those people who are offering to share their audiences.”

Earlier in the day, Ali had put out a call for right-wing political operatives to lead the campaign in a number of states where Trump and Biden are in tight races or where Biden has won by a slim margin.

He called on Scott Presler and far-right activist Jack Posobiec to join the effort in Pennsylvania;Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk and Cernovich in Arizona;Alex Bruesewitz in Wisconsin; and CJ Pearson and Daniel Bostic, a producer of “The Plot Against the President” in Georgia. He also called on Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, a right-wing legal outfit that doubles as a communications shop, to work the legal network and Amy Kremer of Women for Trump and Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles to work the campaign nationally. He also said that Ed Martin, Amy Kremer and Kyle Jane Kremer would be “running point” for aWashington, D.C.event 1 p.m. Thursday. 

At Wednesday’s rally in Phoenix, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, who has his own ties to far-right nationalists, introduced Cernovich to the assembled crowd waving Trump flags. Taking the megaphone, Cernovich claimed that 200 anti-fascist activists had planned to disrupt his rally, but he said they’d never show up because, “I’ll get sent to prison after kissing their asses—legally and lawfully under self-defense laws.”

Cernovich went on to attack Fox News. “Do you think Fox News is suppressing pro-Trump vote?” He asked the crowd. “Yes!” The crowd shouted back.

Alexander also lashed out at Fox News in his Periscope, saying the conservative, pro-Trump network’s coverage of the presidential election was why he launched the campaign. He asked his viewers to spend 15 to 20 minutes after his Periscope harassing Fox News reporters and producers.

“Fox News is about to call the election for Joe Biden. How does this happen? They called Arizona too early. … I think it’s going for Trump,” he said. “If they call Nevada for Biden, then they will accidentally be forced. You need to tweet the hell out of everyone at Fox News.” 

In September, Alexander took to Periscope to float the idea of revamping “Stop the Steal” for the 2020 presidential election, Jared Holtreported for Right Wing Watch then. At that time, Alexander had said that the 2020 “Stop the Steal” campaign would bypass social media by collecting phone numbers from supporters. 

Theoriginal “Stop the Steal” campaign was led by Alexander in 2018, along with convicted felon and self-described “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, who Alexander said came up with the phrase, and his associates, including Posobiec. The campaign featured protests and misinformation against a ballot recount in Florida’s 2018 Senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson. In that campaign, pro-Trump activists from around the country descended on Florida to protest and spread misinformation, a seeming reboot of the so-called “Brooks Brothers riot,” which broke out following Florida’s contested presidential election results in 2000. Stone was behind that riot, which shut down recount efforts in Miami-Dade.

For the 2018 “Stop the Steal” campaign, Alexander said that he had recruited QAnon followers as well as people experiencing homelessness to fill spots at the protest. Politico reported in 2016 that Alexander’s PAC had received a large donation from billionaire**Robert Mercer**; Ali claims to not be taking money from him for this campaign.

It appears the 2018 “Stop the Steal” campaign was an attempted dry run for the 2020 presidential election. On Twitter, Alexanderclaimed to have approached Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel about running the campaign and that she had mocked it. On Wednesday, Alexander lashed out at those around Trump andMcDaniel, who he called “the dumbest woman in history.” He said that the RNC, McDaniel, and the Trump campaign were not doing the campaign. [twt  forced errors in messaging and non-legal and non-protest actions coming out of the GOP right now is simply stunning. Trump may ruin his own efforts before they start. Why is no one around him doing this right?]

alexander claimed that his campaign of right-wing and far-right activists just want “a fair, predictive, determinative result” and that “This election is going to be conducted fairly where it produces a legitimate result that both sides can come together on.”

“I’m going to be here in Texas, just providing my friends with support,” Alexander said. “What I want to do is bring this country as much together as we can and have a certain outcome and ride off into the sunset.”

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Edward Robert Martin Jr. is an American politician and attorney from the state of Missouri. He is president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. Martin was terminated from his role as CNN contributor in January 2018.

A Republican, Martin served as chief of staff for Governor Matt Blunt from 2006 until November 2007. He was the party's nominee for Missouri's 3rd congressional district in 2010,[3] but lost the November 2010 general election to incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan.[4] Martin ran unsuccessfully for Missouri Attorney General in 2012 as the Republican nominee.[5] In 2013, he was elected as Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party.[6]

Early life and education[

Ed Martin grew up in the Whitehouse Station section of Readington Township, New Jersey, the middle of three children of a lawyer father and nurse mother.[7] Following his graduation from St. Peter's Preparatory School,[8] Martin attended the College of the Holy Cross, majoring in English.[7] While at Holy Cross he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study water purification in Indonesia for a year. Leaving Indonesia, Martin next attended Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, on a Rotary International scholarship, earning another bachelor's degree.[7] While in Rome, he decided to attend law school and was accepted to Saint Louis University School of Law.

While at law school, Martin attended a Thanksgiving dinner with Pope John Paul II in 1997. Martin received an invitation to the dinner because he served as the sole youth representative expert of the Synod of the Bishops on the Americas.[9]

Following graduation, Martin worked first as director of the Human Rights Office for the Archdiocese of St. Louis.[7]

Legal career[

As an attorney in private practice, Martin specialized in differing commercial and Pro bono cases. Martin did legal work for the Institute for Justice, Human Action Network, Bryan Cave, LLP, Americans United for Life, Martin Simmonds, LLC, and formed his own law practice, Ed Martin Law Firm, LLC. In addition, Martin served as law clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit under the Honorable Pasco M. Bowman II.

In 2005 while working for Americans United for Life, Martin represented two Illinois pharmacists who sought relief from an administrative rule requiring Illinois pharmacists doing public business to dispense a certain contraceptive, levonorgestrol, also known as "Plan B" or the "morning after pill", under the state's health plan. They argued that such distribution violated their religious rights of conscience.[10] Martin appeared on Lou Dobbs to discuss the case with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.[11] The court sided with Martin and the plaintiffs, agreeing that the Administrative Rule violated the Rights of Conscience Act; it granted the plaintiffs a permanent injunction.[12]

In 2006 while doing pro bono work for the Institute for Justice and the Human Action Network, Martin represented a small business owner who sold caskets and funeral supplies at discounted prices. In an effort to regulate abuses in the funeral business, the State of Missouri required vendors of caskets to have a funeral director's license. Martin and other attorneys argued that the government should not prevent the businessman from selling caskets at a discount and helping people avoid inflated costs of purchasing a casket from funeral homes. Eventually, the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors sided with the small business owner.[13]

Political career[

In 2005, Governor Matt Blunt appointed Ed Martin as chairman of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners.[7] He also headed the leadership team[citation needed] that designed and implemented the Missouri Accountability Portal, an Internet search engine developed by the Blunt administration to track state government spending in order to increase transparency.[14]

In August 2006, Governor Matt Blunt appointed Martin as his chief of staff.[15][16] While serving as Blunt's chief of staff, Martin was linked to the controversial firing of Scott Eckersley, then Deputy General Counsel for Blunt. In the summer of 2007, Martin's office had resisted providing his emails to an investigative reporter from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader, who was investigating whether Martin used his office to influence outside groups against political opponents. Martin claimed there were no emails that pertained to the issue. A Blunt spokesman said the administration did not have a policy of retaining emails, although the state Sunshine Law requiring retention for 3 years is widely known.[17]

The administration claimed it had fired Eckersley because he had violated internal policies. He filed a lawsuit against Martin and Blunt for his firing, saying he had been trying to enforce the state law for retention of emails.[18] Several major media outlets filed suit to gain access to Martin's and other emails of the administration. Martin resigned as chief of staff in November 2007, followed by Blunt's General Counsel, Henry Herschel.[17]

After a year-long battle to gain access, in November 2008, the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch analyzed and reported on 60,000 pages of emails obtained from the administration. They found that Martin had used his state office in 2007 improperly to encourage opposition to Attorney General Jay Nixon among anti-abortion groups, as the Democrat Nixon was likely to oppose Blunt in the next election.[17] He had also pressured political appointees of state agencies to criticize Nixon's handling of some issues as AG. In addition, the newspapers reported that Martin had encouraged outside groups to oppose the nomination of Patricia Breckenridge to an open seat on the Missouri Supreme Court, although Blunt supported her.[17] On May 22, 2009, the Missouri Attorney General's office announced that Eckersley's lawsuit against Blunt and others had been settled for $500,000.[19][20]

In January 2008, Blunt surprised supporters by announcing he would not seek a second term.[21] In February 2008 Governor Blunt appointed Martin as a member of the Missouri State Parks Advisory Board, a position he held until April 2011.[22]

Following Blunt's leaving office, the state completed its own investigation of possible violations of the Sunshine Law under Blunt and Martin. It found that the governor's office failed to properly disclose Mr. Martin's emails."[23] This investigation, which cost the state $2 million, found that Martin had illegally destroyed some emails, in violation of the state's open government or Sunshine Law.[24]

In 2008, Martin founded the American Issues Project, a political group financed by Harold Simmons that ran anti-Senator Barack Obama TV ads during the 2008 United States presidential campaign.[25] Martin appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss the group's commercials.[26]

Martin was executive director of the Missouri Club for Growth,a PAC to support certain candidates financially, and president of the Missouri Roundtable for Life, a pro-life, non-profit group.[27] He also founded Term Limits for Missouri in 2010,[28] which works to pass laws for term limits on all statewide elective positions in the state.

In 2016, Martin co-authored The Conservative Case for Trump with Phyllis Schlafly and Brett M. Decker.[29]

2010 U.S. congressional election[

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri, 2010 § District 3

In 2010, Martin challenged Democratic incumbent Russ Carnahan. Carnahan defeated Martin.

2012 Attorney General election[

See also: 2012 Missouri Attorney General election

Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2012 against incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. After U.S. Congressman Todd Akin and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman filed to run, Martin dropped out of the race to run from the newly redrawn Missouri's 2nd congressional district, Akin's congressional seat.[30] On January 26, 2012, Martin announced he was dropping out of the Congressional race, and filed to run for Missouri Attorney General against incumbent Democrat Chris Koster.[5][31]

Republican Chair[

On January 5, 2013 Ed Martin was elected as the new Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, replacing David Cole.[6] Martin was elected in the second round of balloting by the Republican State Committee, defeating Cole 34 votes to 32. Former Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham was also a candidate for the party leadership.[6] Noting that state Republican Party officials were often more conservative than most of their members, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorialized that Martin was an unfortunate choice for the GOP. They commented on his having cost the state "taxpayers about $2 million for an investigation spurred by his destruction of public records when he was chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt."[24]

As party chairman, Martin criticized advertising in the Republican primary campaign for the United States Senate election in Mississippi, 2014, which was marked by race-based ads appearing to encourage Democrats to vote in support of candidate Thad Cochran, as well as robo-calls to African-American voters thought to be made by his opponent Chris McDaniel's campaign, which were derogatory to President Barack Obama.[32] It was reported that Cochran and allies were "looking to increase voter turnout across the state, particularly among African Americans and Democrats who had not voted in the June 3 primary."[32] Martin criticized any race-based advertising by Republican candidates. "I don’t know how that can be allowed in the Republican party," Martin says. "If it is, we have no credibility, we have no moral standing."[32]

McDaniel lost the primary by 7,000 votes but refused to concede, marring party efforts to prepare for the general election.[32][33] In addition, Martin made a motion to censure Barbour at the annual RNC August summer meeting in Chicago. This effort fizzled, but the issue was discussed in member meetings.[33] Henry Barbour is the nephew of former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.

Electoral history

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2010 both carnahan won

CommitteeTypeAll 2010 Total
60 Plus Assn501c$4,318
AFL-CIO501c$10,501
American CrossroadsSuperPAC$28,629
American Federation of Teachers501c$2,140
American Majority Action501c$9,873
Americans for Job Security501c$2,598
Americans for Limited Government501c$9,122
Americans for Tax Reform501c$1,419
Crossroads GPS501c$250,225
Democratic Congressional Campaign CmtePAC$14
Missouri Democratic State CmtePAC$86,000
Missouri Republican State CmtePAC$82,150
Missouri Right to LifePAC$731
National Assn of Letter Carriers501c$21,984
National Assn of Realtors501c$8,948
National Education Assn501c$7,128
National Fedn of Independent Business501c$1
National Rifle Assn501c$5,967
National Rifle AssnPAC$42,714
National Right to LifePAC$5,768
National Taxpayers UnionPAC$25
Planned Parenthood VotesSuperPAC$14,985
Planned Parenthood/St Louis Region501c$1,395
Revere America501c$1,633
Sierra ClubPAC$20
Susan B Anthony List501c$29,168
United Steelworkers501c$23
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May 16, 2022Phyllis Schlafly, whom the Board elevated to Chairman of the Board and CEO, said, "Ed Martin is uniquely qualified and prepared to carry on the essential educational and political leadership of Eagle Forum that has made it the premier organization of grassroots volunteers in the conservative movement.

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Ed Martin (Missouri politician) Edward Robert Martin Jr. is an American politician and attorney from the state of Missouri. He is president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. Martin was terminated from his role as CNN contributor in January 2018. A Republican, Martin served as chief of staff for Governor Matt Blunt from 2006 until November 2007.

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The so-called "Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle PAC" has endorsed a pro-abortion congressional candidate in Wyoming and is spending $55,000 for the election of Rod Miller. Ed Martin created this Super PAC using Phyllis Schlafly's name on the day she died (September 5, 2016).

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Phyllis Schlafly, whom the Board elevated to Chairman of the Board and CEO, said, "Ed Martin is uniquely qualified and prepared to carry on the essential educational and political leadership of Eagle Forum that has made it the premier organization of grassroots volunteers in the conservative movement.

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Phyllis Schlafly Eagles president Ed Martin slammed the U.S. archivist as "drenched in the Swamp." On Dec. 18, 2019, Alabama, Louisiana, and South Dakota filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent the archivist of the United States from accepting states' ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would ban discrimination based on sex.

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Jun 9, 2022Ed Martin's success in claiming Phyllis Schlafly's mantle has brought him not only continued prominence but also a comfortable income. Martin is president of at least three Schlafly-related entities. Very little money passes through one of them, Phyllis Schlafly's American Eagles, and Martin draws no income from it.

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Ed Martin, President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, serves as the Catholic Advisor to the President. In this speech, he talks about the legacy of Phyllis S...

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Phyllis Schlafly Eagles was extraordinarily pleased and honored to present the Eagle Award to Judie Brown of the @AmerLifeLeague. What an amazing warrior for babies! 1. 4. Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin · 17h. Iowa GOP state committeewoman tells us the new members of the Republican National Committee are wonderfully strong on their principles. Great news! #EagleCouncil 51. 1. Ed Martin ...

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Our voice and our votes matter. Ed Martin President, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles On November 3, 2020, 74 million Americans voted to send Donald J. Trump back to the White House. Trump brought out more Republican voters than any candidate ever had, but he stands on the shoulders of giants.

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Phyllis Schlafly's legacy continues under the leadership of Ed Martin. He is president of the Eagle Forum c3 (aka Eagle Forum E&LD Fund) and related Eagle entities. He coauthored a book with Phyllis Schlafly on The Conservative Case for Donald Trump . Phyllis Schlafly's weekly column continues to be written by her sons, John and Andy.

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TodayFor Immediate Release: September 28, 2022 Contact: Ed Martin, President. Washington, D.C.: Phyllis Schlafly Eagles has issued a statement of endorsement for JD Vance in his race for U.S. Senate in Ohio: "In a Washington full of life-long elites that live off the public dime, the idea of Senator JD Vance stands out as a breath of fresh American air," said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis ...

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Jun 27, 2022Stream Ed Martin of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles -- Mon. Jun. 27, 2022 by News/Talk 1540 KXEL on desktop and mobile. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Oct 28, 2020Right-wing activist Ed Martin (Photo from EdMartinLive.com) The president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles—one of the two groups that splintered from the late anti-feminist's organization of the same name—has shown himself to be a supporter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy-theory movement.

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September 2022 Clips | #ProAmericaReport with Ed Martin by Phyllis Schlafly Eagles published on 2022-09-01T20:10:15Z. Contains tracks. Katie Brown | September 1, 2022 #ProAmericaReport by Phyllis Schlafly Eagles published on 2022-09-01T20:08:51Z. James Muffett | September 1, 2022 #ProAmericaReport by Phyllis Schlafly Eagles published on 2022-09-01T20:09:18Z. Wrap Up: Media Has to Give ...

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Aug 25, 2021Washington, D.C.: "It's not every day American citizens get listed as targets of political persecution in Congress, but today a list has been published that I'm privileged to be on," said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.

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Sep 8, 2022WarRoom With Steve Bannon - Edward Dowd - Equity Investment Executive, Fmr. Blackrock Portfolio Manager & Namoi Wolf - CEO of Dailyclout.io 21 September 2022 by Bannon's War Room

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Wednesday, Bill Hightower's campaign for Congress announced that Phyllis Schlafly Eagles' President Ed Martin is endorsing Hightower. In addition to serving as President of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Ed Martin also co-authored Phyllis Schlafly's last book: 'The Conservative Case for Trump.' Martin succeeded Schlafly after her death late in 2016.

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Sep 8, 2022So-Called Church to Host Drag Queen Show For Children in Karty, Texas and Citizens Set to Protest 23 September 2022 by Lindell Radio

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Sep 12, 2022WarRoom With Steve Bannon - Ed Martin - President Phyllis Schlafly Eagles EaglesCouncil.com. By Bannon's War Room, 12 September, 2022. Related Videos. WarRoom With Steve Bannon - John Tamny - Autho, Editor Real Clear Politics, Director FreedomWorks 12 September 2022 by Bannon's War Room. WarRoom With Steve Bannon - Peter Hernandez - Candidate For Congress CA-18 1 September 2022 by Bannon's War ...

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