WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump made it clear last week that he wanted Ed Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. And Martin believes he would have been confirmed to the position, despite Democratic opposition and media outrage, if Senator Thom Tillis had not intervened.
“I was surprised, and I think the president was too, that Thom Tillis took the position he took,” Martin shared in a Monday interview with The Daily Wire. “I believe we had the votes if we could get to the floor, I really do…I was confident we could make an argument, but ultimately, Thom Tillis decided it was the stand he wanted to make, for reasons that defy good sense to me.”
Tillis, who’s up for re-election in North Carolina, a swing state, had reservations about Martin’s defense of people imprisoned for their role in the January 6 Capitol Riot. Tillis intimated that he…
