Video Casts Doubt on Ed Martin’s Apology

Busted: Video contradicts Trump official's apology for praising Nazi sympathizer

President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor is facing fresh scrutiny after newly surfaced videos and podcasts appear to contradict his public apology for praising a Capitol riot defendant with known Nazi sympathies, the Washington Post reported Friday.Interim ...

Video Casts Doubt on Ed Martin’s Apology

“Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin apologized this week for praising a pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendant who supported Nazi ideology and photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler, saying he didn’t know about the man’s extremist statements,” the Washington Post reports. “But in videos and podcasts, Martin has defended the man since at least 2023, calling him a friend who was ‘slurred and smeared’ by antisemitism allegations.”