WTF? looks like we've already arrived at a very dark place.
D.C Prosecutor Shares Menacing, Grammatically Incorrect Message to AP
The Trump-appointed top attorney in D.C. appeared to suggest that federal prosecutors serve as personal lawyers for the president in an X post calling out The Associated Press and other entities that he said “refuse to put America first.”
Ed Martin, who has been the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia since Trump took office, issued a fresh—if grammatically incorrect—pledge Monday to “stand against” the president’s critics after the AP sued the administration for banning its reporters over a disagreement on what to call the recently-renamed Gulf of America.
“As President Trumps' [sic] 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,” he wrote on X.
Some congressional Democrats immediately condemned Martin’s statement. The Florida congressman Maxwell Frost called for Martin’s resignation, writing: “US attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers.”
The Virginia congressman Don Beyer posted: “Washingtonians deserve federal law enforcement who will protect their rights without violating the constitution, and focus on fighting crime rather than trying to censor the free press and political opponents. Basic understanding of punctuation would be nice, also.”
D.C Prosecutor Shares Menacing, Grammatically Incorrect Message to AP
The Trump-appointed top attorney in D.C. appeared to suggest that federal prosecutors serve as personal lawyers for the president in an X post calling out The Associated Press and other entities that he said “refuse to put America first.”
Ed Martin, who has been the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia since Trump took office, issued a fresh—if grammatically incorrect—pledge Monday to “stand against” the president’s critics after the AP sued the administration for banning its reporters over a disagreement on what to call the recently-renamed Gulf of America.
“As President Trumps' [sic] 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,” he wrote on X.
Some congressional Democrats immediately condemned Martin’s statement. The Florida congressman Maxwell Frost called for Martin’s resignation, writing: “US attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers.”
The Virginia congressman Don Beyer posted: “Washingtonians deserve federal law enforcement who will protect their rights without violating the constitution, and focus on fighting crime rather than trying to censor the free press and political opponents. Basic understanding of punctuation would be nice, also.”
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