Trump’s top DOJ prosecutor blames 'crazy Black ladies' for being fired from CNN

The diverse city of Washington D.C. may have an additional problem with President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney of the District of Columbia.

“I was a CNN contributor/commenter for about a year. I got fired because the crazy Black ladies demanded I be fired because I didn’t take their nonsense. Literally that happened,” said interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin on TNT’s Lembit Opik Show.

The Bluesky account of the Senate Judiciary Democrats posted the video of Martin's comments on Monday, setting off additional outcry on top of additional controversy surrounding Martin, who first drew ire for backing Donald Trump's false claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election for former president Joe Biden. Martin also advocated for January 6 defendants who attempted to interrupt the official counting of Electoral College votes.

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CNN fired pundit Martin, a former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, in 2018, roughly one year after hiring him to replace another conservative pundit, Jeffrey Lord, for tweeting a Nazi greeting at the president of the left-leaning media watchdog group Media Matters for America. At the time, Media Matters for America president Angelo Carusone said he was happy that CNN parted ways with Martin.

“Martin followed the same pattern of previous pro-Trump surrogates: dishonesty and disruptions during on-air discussions,” Carusone said.

Former federal prosecutors are already outwardly opposing over Martin’s nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia because of his behavior while serving as interim U.S. attorney for the district, which they describe as “typifying authoritarian and … totalitarian regimes of the most notorious sort.”

“No United States Attorney,” say prosecutors, should “terminate Assistant United States Attorneys for prosecuting individuals who invaded the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.” Nor should they “investigate Assistant United States Attorneys for pursuing criminal charges … upheld … by more than a dozen United States District Judges.”

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The prosecutors also accuse him of tweeting or publicly commenting on matters under investigation or outside his purview and directly contact sitting members of Congress on matters protected by federal speech and debate clauses, while also “mistaking basic facts at issue.” In addition, Martin has ordered the head of the office’s criminal division to open politically charged investigations, while serving as interim U.S. Attorney.

Watch the video of Martin's comments below, or by clicking this link.