=Tillis Flips Off Trump, Announces Opposition to U.S. Attorney for D.C. Nominee Ed Martin

Bradley Jaye6 May 2025

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is flipping off Donald Trump, announcing Tuesday he will oppose the president’s nominee for the crucial U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia just hours after Trump called for Senators to support him.

Tillis’s decision, first reported by Breitbart News nine hours before Tillis’s confirmation, could sound the death knell for Trump’s nominee, Ed Martin, who has been serving in the office on an interim basis.

Breitbart News reported Monday that Tillis withholding his supporting was the critical impediment to Martin’s nomination being advanced before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Without Tillis’s support, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IO) would not bring Martin’s nomination to the floor.

Tillis’s office did not respond to a request from Breitbart News late Monday night regarding his decision. His office did not respond Tuesday morning to a request for an explanation of his decision.

But Tillis explained to a gaggle of reporters including CNN’s Manu Raju Tuesday that “most of my concerns related to January 6.”

“We have to be very, very clear that what happened on January the sixth was wrong,” Tillis said, indicating he disagreed with Martin’s decision to pardon all those who entered the Capitol that day.

Tillis’s position directly contradicts Trump’s, who pardoned all individuals who did so.

Monday night, hours before Tillis’s announcement, Trump called for Senators to support Martin’s nomination, calling his confirmation “imperative.”

“We are going to take our Country BACK, and FAST,” Trump said in part, particularly touting Martin’s worth with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. The president continued:

Ed Martin will be a big player in doing so and, I hope, that the Republican Senators will make a commitment to his approval, which is now before them. Ed is coming up on the deadline for Voting and, if approved, HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. When some day in the future you look back at your Vote for Ed Martin, you will be very proud of what you have done for America.

Tillis clearly disagrees with Trump strongly enough to kill the nomination entirely.

Sources inform Breitbart News that Trump is continuing to hold out hope for Tillis, who is up for reelection, changing his mind. But the clock is ticking on Martin’s interim status, which ends May 20, 2025.

Given the Senate schedule and complicated parliamentary shackles, for the Senate to confirm Martin before his interim tag expires, Grassley would have to notice a markup of the nomination perhaps as soon as Tuesday by midnight, and Majority Leader Thune (R-SD) would have to keep the Senate in session an additional day, most likely Friday, previously scheduled as a recess day.

But unless Tillis gets on board with Trump, Martin’s nomination likely will be dead in the water, and Trump’s America First agenda will be severely undercut.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/06/tillis-flips-off-trump-announces-opposition-to-u-s-attorney-for-dc-nominee-ed-martin/

Is this Troll and Shill day, fighting about due process?

BREAKING: Sen. Thom Tillis Refuses To Support Ed Martin As U.S. Attorney Due To January 6th Defense

Tillis is making the biggest mistake of his life. He’s only hanging onto Jan 6th because he hates Trump.

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JUST IN: Sen Cornyn Supports Confirming Ed Martin For DC US Attorney After Tillis Makes SHOCKING Admission to Reporters(VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila May. 6, 2025 12:20

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday said he will support President Trump’s nominee for US Attorney, Ed Martin after rumors circulated that he may oppose the nomination.

Ed Martin is currently the Acting US Attorney for DC and Trump recently announced he nominated him for a permanent position as one of the country’s top cops.

If Ed Martin is not confirmed by May 20, a federal court in DC (Judge Boasberg) will appoint an interim US Attorney until he is confirmed. There is currently no vote scheduled to confirm Ed Martin.

Earlier Tuesday RINO Senator Thom Tillis, who voted to confirm Biden’s radical pick for Attorney General Merrick Garland, told reporters that he opposes the nomination of Ed Martin for DC US Attorney.

Tillis made a shocking admission to reporters. He actually said he would support Ed Martin for any district except where January 6 happened.

In other words, Tillis admitted Ed Martin is qualified to be a US Attorney, but he’s potentially derailing Martin’s nomination for political reasons.

“I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the 6th, and that’s probably where most of the friction was,” Tillis said.

The North Carolina Senator said people who merely entered the US Capitol on January 6 (after police opened the doors and let them in) should serve up to 3 years behind bars.

Tillis admitted Ed Martin was doing a great job with his investigation into Biden US Attorney Matthew Graves’ unlawful use of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction charge to lock up January 6 defendants.

However, he will be opposing Ed Martin’s nomination for political reasons.

“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a US Attorney for any district except the district where January 6 happened, the protest happened, I’d probably support him, but not in this district,” Tillis said in a shocking admission to CNN’s Manu Raju.

Cornyn said he intends to vote for Ed Martin.

“When he comes up for a vote, I intend to support him,” Cornyn told reporters this morning. “I tend to defer to the president on his choices.”

(Does he know it’s too late to come up for vote.)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/sen-cornyn-supports-confirming-ed-martin-dc-us/