Revealed: Interim US attorney made a series of false and derogatory comments

11 March

Appointed by President Donald Trump in January 2025, interim US attorney Ed Martin is under scrutiny for making false and derogatory statements leading up to and during his current tenure, The Guardian reported Tuesday.

As the Guardian reported, some of the comments include “falsely claiming Kamala Harris ‘self-identified’ as Black, and calling her the new Rachel Dolezal, claiming Planned Parenthood targets Black communities for abortions, claiming that the Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made racist comments to white males about her own identity and invoking false claims about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to affirm support for the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement.”

As recent as last week, Martin told Georgetown law school to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), stating “his office would not hire anyone associated with a university with DEI programs,” the Guardian said.

The Hill recently reported how Senate Democrats have filled a complain against Martin, “accusing him of dismissing criminal charges against his own clients and threatening prosecution against government employees to intimidate them.”

However, he clearly has White House support. “President Trump was given a resounding mandate by the American people to restore law and order. His nomination of Ed Martin underscores his commitment to making America safe again, starting with our nation’s capital,” said Liz Huston, assistant White House press secretary.

According to the report, “The Guardian obtained copies of columns Martin wrote for the Evening Whirl, a non-digital, crime tabloid in St Louis, Missouri, as he was a leader in the local Tea Party that emerged and grew in response to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election win.”

In a “column entitled 'What would MLK Say?', Martin criticized a Martin Luther King Jr event at Harris Stowe State University, a historical Black university in St. Louis, because he said the attendees and speakers didn’t criticize 'racist tendencies' of the Democratic party,” the Guardian reported.

Martin also falsely claimed King was a registered Republican, as CNN reported.

“I wonder what Martin Luther King Jr. might think of the Tea Party movement. I can’t help but think he would appreciate their desire to rally, strive for change and peaceably force the folks in power to listen,” Martin wrote.

According to the Guardian, “a 2009 column titled 'If Sotomayor was a white man,' Martin claimed her Supreme Court nomination would be over, claiming a comment she made about her experiences as a Latina woman was racist against white men.”

All of this came at the heels of his resignation as chief of staff to the Republican governor of Missouri in 2007.

The Guardian reports, “Before his resignation, Hispanic groups called on the Missouri governor to fire Martin after he said during an August 2007 Missouri housing development commission meeting that in a work force where there are 'Mexican-looking people they are likely illegal.'"

In 2008, Martin joined the Tea Party in Missouri as leader and ran for Congress and eventually state attorney’s office. He was the chair of the Missouri Republican Party until 2015.

In 2018, CNN fired him for saying panelists that joined him were “black racists” and “rabid feminists.”

Aside from using QAnon slogans, supporting election fraud and appearing alongside white nationalist on podcasts, he also served on the platform committee during the 2024 Republican national convention.

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