Uh Oh, Sounds Like Eagle Ed Martin Done Tainted Up DOJ's Revenge Cases!

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Yesterday we learned old Ed Martin had been forced out of his post as Czar of Weaponization under Attorney General Pam Bondi, and his office relocated from DOJ HQ to the more far-flung Northeast pardon office for not crushing Trump’s enemies fast enough. But turns out the backstory is much worse than that for Eagle Ed, so bad even Todd Blanche’s own DOJ probe found that he fucked up bigly, possibly criminally, whoops!

You’ll recall Trump spite-named Martin to two positions after his nomination for US Attorney for Washington DC failed, when it came to light he’d made hundreds of paid appearances repeating Putin’s talking points on Russian television, and had ongoing affectionate relationships with January 6 rioters, including exceptionally-even-for-MAGA rabid anti-semite Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, best known for shaving himself a literal Hitler mustache.

So Trump made up for dumb old Ed his own job, Weaponization Czar, and made him Pardon Attorney too, as in, trying to undo Joe Biden’s pardons so Trump can go after the members of the January 6 House Select Committee and Hunter Biden’s dong some more.
Yet Ed has failed at every step! The upside to incompetent people who have been accepting Russian money is that they are doggedly loyal. The downside is, well, they’re incompetent.

Not only incompetent, turns out, but sounds like Martin might have engaged in a little bit of criminal activity on the side, emailing grand jury materials from the DOJ’s mortgage fraud inquiries into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James to unauthorized people. Not only is that against the law, but fatally taints any evidentiary fruits from the fetid tree. Which LAWYER Ed Martin well ought to know.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/uh-oh-sounds-like-eagle-ed-martin

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1. Remember in 2016 when Trump said he hires all the best people? What are they best at?

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2. Fucking up! Nt

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3. Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority

Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump’s foes.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority
Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump’s foes.

— LunaLuvgood2020 (@lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social) 2026-02-03T07:03:12.805Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/02/ed-martin-demoted-justice-department

Top Justice Department officials have stripped Ed Martin of the bulk of his expansive responsibilities, leaving the staunch ally of President Donald Trump on the sidelines of many of the controversial investigations he has championed, according to two people familiar with the personnel move.

As a result of the changes, Martin will no longer chair the department’s Weaponization Working Group, which was tasked with reviewing special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of Trump and other examples of what Trump sees as “prosecutorial abuse,” according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel move that has not been made public. The group itself continues to meet. Martin also lost his title as an assistant attorney general.

Martin will continue to serve as the Justice Department’s pardon attorney but will no longer work at department headquarters. Instead, his office will be located in another Justice Department building in Northeast Washington, pulling him away from the attorney general and the most powerful figures in the department, according to a person familiar with the move. The pardon office is in that Northeast Washington building.

Justice Department officials informed Martin in early December of the demotion, and it went into effect at the end of 2025. It is unclear whether he will remain in the pardon attorney role and, if so, for how long.....

In November, The Washington Post reported that prosecutors had questioned a witness in the Schiff case about her contact with Martin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.

The inquiries suggested that investigators were looking at whether Martin and Pulte used inappropriate tactics to launch probes of Schiff and others. The questions probed whether the two Trump officials divulged information about the Schiff investigation to people who were not authorized to be a part of it.

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4. MaddowBlog-The DOJ's 'Weaponization Working Group' struggles as it chases a mirage

Pam Bondi’s task force doesn’t need more frequent meetings; it needs to realize that it’s been tasked with uncovering a made-up conspiracy.

If the DOJ were trying and failing to find Bigfoot, it’d say, “I guess there’s no Bigfoot,” not “We daily meetings about the Bigfoot hunt.”

Similarly, as the DOJ’s “weaponization” group struggles to find evidence of Biden-era wrongdoing, Bondi & Co. are missing the obvious answer to their question.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-10T22:29:25.676Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/the-dojs-weaponization-working-group-struggles-as-it-chases-a-mirage

There is a degree of irony surrounding the Justice Department’s recent efforts. On the one hand, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team have weaponized federal law enforcement to a degree unseen since Watergate. On the other hand, they’re simultaneously on the hunt for evidence of the Biden-era DOJ having been weaponized.

By all appearances, the latter crusade isn’t doing especially well.....

Efforts to breathe new life into the working group are, however, apparently ongoing. NBC News reported:

More than a year after Attorney General Pam Bondi created a ‘Weaponization Working Group’ meant to root out ‘abuses of the criminal justice process’ by federal law enforcement officers in their investigations of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department is scrambling to produce a report, according to a person directly familiar with the group’s work.

.....Of particular interest, however, was an element of the NBC News report that noted that Justice Department officials involved in the working group “said they were berated over their inability to produce so far.”

....That would leave the DOJ with a choice: It could conclude that federal law enforcement personnel simply hadn’t worked hard enough to find Bigfoot, or it could conclude that it was chasing after a creature that doesn’t exist.

Common sense suggests that the proper response should be “I guess there’s no Bigfoot,” not “Clearly, we need better Bigfoot hunters.”

Similarly, Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group has struggled to produce results, not because it’s failed to try, but because it’s chasing a mirage. The Biden White House, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department between January 2021 and December 2024 weren’t weaponized. Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue have spent years trying to uncover evidence of these nefarious activities, but they’ve failed because the activities didn’t happen.

The Weaponization Working Group doesn’t need more frequent meetings, it needs to realize that it’s been tasked with uncovering a conspiracy that only exists in the imaginations of misguided partisans.