President Donald Trump suggested he will withdraw his embattled nominee for U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Ed Martin.
“He’s a terrific person, and he wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought, and he’s done a very good job,” Trump told reporters of Martin in the Oval Office on Thursday. “I’m very disappointed in that, but I have so many different things that I’m doing now with the trade, you know, one person I can only make, boom, I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day.”
While he didn’t explicitly say he was pulling the nomination, Trump did talk about the nomination in the past tense.