Trumps weaponization czar hints at international targets, accepts that GOP killed his DC US Attorney nomination: It worked out great
Newly minted weaponization czar Ed Martin is gearing up to take on a myriad of bad actors who the Trump administration says weaponized government powers to punish conservatives and MAGA supporters over recent years.Martin’s list of potential targets is very wide, including propagators of Russiagate, prosecutors in Capitol riot cases, individuals who allegedly helped cover up COVID-19 origins and even international organizations that have censored Americans.“The truth is important, and we need it,” Martin told The Post.
“Then, after the truth is known, we need to hold those accountable that did the wrongdoing, and we need to also help those who are victims.We have both of those obligations.”For years, Martin, formerly the Missouri Republican Party chairman, has helped research government weaponization and crafted strategies to combat it.
During the 2024 campaign, he helped craft language in the 2024 GOP platform calling on the party to “stop woke and weaponized government.” He’s also already started going after some key targets.While serving as interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, a position that is set to expire for him on May 20, he sent out investigatory letters to at least four key officials who were heavily involved with the Russia collusion investigation.Additionally, Martin demoted at least half a dozen prosecutors who were involved with pursuing the Capitol riot cases at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.Now that he is set to help the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, he intends to continue those investigations and expand further.He is also looking to probe foreign censorship of Americans and the “appearance of corruption in some of the USAID grants.”“There may be no limit to the targets, since there was no limit to the weaponization,” Martin told The Post.
To Martin, helping victims of government weaponization restore their reputations and get their lives back on track is a top p...