'This Is Poisonous': Statement From Trump's US Attorney Attacking AP Sparks Swift Bipartisan Fury
Source: MEDIAite
Feb 24th, 2025, 3:57 pm
A tweet posted by Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee and the current interim acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, raised alarms among observers across the partisan political aisle Monday afternoon for his comments about the president’s ongoing dispute with the Associated Press.
Among Trump’s first-day flurry of executive orders was one that purported to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and to change the name of North America’s highest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley, but the AP is only on board for the latter, citing the scope of U.S. presidential authority and its status as an international news organization as the rationale behind how it would identify both places. The Trump administration has continued to bar AP reporters from the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other official White House events.
On Friday, the AP filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against three Trump administration officials: White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. The complaint specifically objected to the White House ordering the wire service to use specific words in its reporting and stated that it had filed suit “to vindicate its rights to the editorial independence guaranteed by the United States Constitution and to prevent the executive branch from coercing journalists to report the news using only government-approved language.” Martin’s tweet, posted by the official account for the U.S. Attorney in D.C., included the following statement:
As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first.
The tweet drew swift and sharp condemnation from a wide swath of commentators, pointing out the grammar error — it should have said “President Trump’s lawyers,” not “President Trumps’ lawyers” — and more importantly, the constitutional conflict with that phrase, regardless of whether or not Martin got the punctuation right.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/this-is-poisonous-statement-from-trumps-us-attorney-attacking-ap-sparks-swift-bipartisan-fury/
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Yellow background, navy blue lines and quote, As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first. DOJ seal. Edward R. Martin, Jr. United States Attorney, District of Columbia
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The DOJ is not the personal law firm of the President. "The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested."
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3:18 PM · Feb 24, 2025
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to go with the flying ketchup for the hamberders. 
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When new AG Pam Bondi informed the DOJ that they were rebranding as Trump’s personal lawyers, it felt like a Freudian slip. Given that the leadership of the leaders of the hitherto famously independent department — from Bondi to Blanche to Bove — were all chosen because they were, in fact, Trump’s personal lawyers, it […]
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Ed Martin, heading up the DC US Attorney’s Office, lacks any lingering subtlety. Thus far, the Stop the Steal wingnut placed in charge of the venerable office divided his time between writing love letters to Elon Musk, dropping charges against his own clients, and threatening legislators for questioning Republicans. So it’s unsurprising to see that he’s yet again screwing around on social media repeating the idea that law enforcement reflects the whims of a president instead of his actual job.
The word “interim” is curiously absent. Because while Trump has nominated Martin to take on the role long-term, the Senate needs to vote before he’s actually “United States Attorney, District of Columbia.”
But also, take another look at the first three words. That’s not how apostrophes work, champ!
Maybe basic grammar is something they teach you after you get confirmed.
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