‘Elon Musk’s Personal Police Force’: CNN’s Elie Honig Torches ‘Extraordinarily Dangerous’ Trump Loyalist Serving in Key DOJ Post

CNN’s Elie Honig literally announced his intention to “ring the alarm bell” over interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin on Tuesday, expressing his concern that Martin is “extraordinarily dangerous and may turn his office into “Elon Musk’s personal police force.”

“I want to turn to D.C.’s interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, who, by the way, to remind our viewers, helped organize the Stop the Steal movement,” said anchor Pamela Brown to kick off a segment with Honig. “Yesterday, he [Martin] posted, quote, ‘As President Trump’s lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our president, and we are vigilant and standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first.'”

“The AP is a long running member of the free press in this country. There has been a lot of outcry that he’s referring to U.S. prosecutors as Trump’s lawyers. As a former federal prosecutor yourself, how do you respond to this?” asked Brown.

“Well, I’m going to ring the alarm bell here about this guy, Ed Martin, who is currently the acting U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.. I’m working on a piece about him right now. I think he’s extraordinarily dangerous,” replied Honig. “He has zero prosecutorial experience, but he also has no clue what he’s talking about. Take that one posting that you just put, he said, we represent the president. No, we don’t. I was with DOJ for years. You didn’t go into court and say ‘Elie Honig representing George W. Bush, Elie Honig representing Barack Obama.’ You said representing the United States. the president in his individual capacity or even his professional capacity is not your client. Your client is the people of the United States. But Ed Martin so far seems to be viewing this job as just a platform to carry out political agendas and to seek vengeance against disfavored political forces. So I think he is someone who we need to watch very carefully. I think a lot of the things he’s said and posted show a fundamental misunderstanding of what the job is.”

“I mean, that’s a that’s a charitable view, a misunderstanding, right? Because it could be more cynical. We don’t know,” observed Brown. “We do know that he’s a big Trump supporter. Again, and I emphasize this, he was an organizer of the Stop the Steal movement. The election was not stolen. And he is in a tremendous position of power, right? I mean, tell us about the position he’s in and the amount of power he has now in this role.”

Honig responded:

So he is the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.. And of course, that’s an extraordinarily sensitive district because a lot of these political disputes will come through there. If we look at some of the other things that Ed Martin has done and said one, he has floated the possibility of criminally prosecuting Chuck Schumer and Representative [Robert] Garcia, both for political statements that they made in public. I think inappropriate, irresponsible political statements. But we’re nowhere near criminality. He’s essentially trampling on the First Amendment to lodge these threats of prosecuting these individuals. Ed Martin, also, if you look at his Twitter feed, his X feed, it’s essentially filled with peons to Elon Musk. He is basically kissing up to Elon Musk on a daily basis. And ‘Oh, it was such an honor to meet with you.’ And ‘We will hunt down to the ends of the earth anyone who bothers you, anyone who acts unethically.’ None of that is the job of a prosecutor. I mean, he’s in charge of Washington, D.C., there is plenty of very serious crime in Washington, D.C., and the fact that he seems to want to act as Elon Musk’s personal police force, I think, is very dangerous, and we need to keep a close eye on.

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