Wannabe Gestapo “Eagle” Ed Martin is making a reputation for himself with the DOGE Führer.
The appearing head of the US Lawyer’s Workplace in DC has knowledgeable the president’s greatest donor that he’ll seek out anybody who behaved illegally and even unethically and “chase them to the top of the Earth.”
“Noone is above the regulation,” he preened in illiterate ecstasy.
It’s a weird flex for a prosecutor who simply dismissed a case towards his “former” consumer — though he’d did not withdraw his look. Presumably Martin won’t be chasing himself to the “finish of the Earth” for moral lapses.
However Martin isn’t simply swearing fealty to Musk “by way of X solely.” He’s additionally threatening Democratic politicians for speech he doesn’t like.
Right here he’s shitposting at Rep. Robert Garcia as a result of the California Congressman had the temerity to say on TV that People need Democrats to “convey precise weapons to a bar combat.”
“This sounds to some like a risk to Mr. Musk – an appointed consultant of President Donald Trump who you name a ‘dick’ – and authorities workers who work for him,” Martin blustered. “Their issues have led to this inquiry.”
(Non-public jail homeowners should be salivating on the prospect of arresting everybody who calls Elon Musk a dick.)
Martin, who attended the protest on the Capitol on January 6, has a protracted historical past of confusion about precise threats.
At 2:57pm on January 6, rioters have been inside each chambers of Congress, the members had all been evacuated, Ashli Babbit had simply been shot, Vice President Pence was in hiding, and the gang was demanding that police hand over then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
However Martin wasn’t accomplished. In response to the Washington Put up, he’s simply launched Operation Whirlwind, so named for an ill-advised remark by Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer in 2020 warning Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that “You could have launched the whirlwind and you’ll pay the value. You gained’t know what hit you in case you go ahead with these terrible selections.”
Schumer instantly apologized and insisted that he had not been threatening the justices. And Trump says ten menacing issues on-line earlier than breakfast. Nonetheless, Martin despatched a letter to Senator Schumer demanding that he clarify himself, after which adopted up with a missive to all workers promising to “shield DOGE.”
Certainly they’ll get proper on that after they get by means of investigating their very own colleagues for prosecuting January 6 rioters.
The workers could also be feeling further anxious this week, for the reason that departure of Denise Cheung, a 24-year DOJ veteran who till Tuesday served as head of the prison division on the DC US Lawyer’s Workplace. Cheung give up fairly than order Citibank to freeze $20 billion of EPA funds disbursed through the Biden administration primarily based on a bullshit demand from Emil Bove that she dummy up a pretextual prison investigation.
The problem seems to have one thing to do with a declare by EPA administrator Lee Zeldin that the Biden administration parked $20 billion of gold bars with a “Stacey Abrams’ Related Group.”
However Cheung was not satisfied that there was possible trigger to grab the funds.
“After I defined that the quantum of proof didn’t assist that motion, you acknowledged that you simply believed that there was ample proof,” she wrote in a letter obtained by Politico. “I nonetheless don’t consider that there’s ample proof to challenge the letter you described.”
All of this will likely look to an outdoor observer like an workplace careening into chaos underneath a lawyer with all of the understanding of the First Modification as a member of the Schutzstaffel. However apparently it’s precisely what the president ordered, since he’s now nominated Martin to move the workplace completely.
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Liz Dye lives in Baltimore the place she produces the Regulation and Chaos substack and podcast.
