Trump to Pull Ed Martin’s Nomination for U.S. Attorney

Martin, who Trump picked to be the U.S. attorney for D.C., has struggled to gain support, in part due to his history.

Ed Martin
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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.