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Trump’s Personal Hit Man Weighs In

Published by digby on February 3, 2025

I wrote about Ed Martin, the new US Attorney for Washington DC, the other day. He was one of the organizers of the Stop the Steal rally, spoke on January 5th, and raised money for the defense of the January 6th insurrectionists.

Here he is sucking up to President Musk and assuring him that he’ll use his police power against his opponents:

"We will not act like the previous administration who looked the other way as the Antifa and BLM rioters as well as thugs with guns trashed our capital city. We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what."

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T17:38:13.064Z

They know there will likely be big protests eventually. It just seems inevitable. We’re already seeing them happen in cities where the immigration raids are taking place. When they do, especially if there’s a big march in DC, I suspect there will be violence.

It would be nice if the big march, should it happen, be led by women again. It would not preclude the police crackdown because that’s what Trump and his henchmen are looking for. But it will illustrate for the American people more clearly who they really are.

By the way, I came across this about Martin. He’s quite a piece of work:

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