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Related #EdMartin news:

#DOJ / Ed Martin are opposing #Jan6 defendant Ryan Zink’s effort to publicly release prosecutors’ massive evidence database, saying it would create a “dangerous opportunity” that could harm *national security* [how???] & put *victims* at risk.

Martin calls Jan 6 “important to our history as a nation.”

justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-m

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…On Dec 9, 2024, one day before #Trump announced that #EdMartin would join his new admin, Martin wrote about #Putin on the website of his #PhyllisSchlafly Eagles group. He decried the dismantling of Western civilization by “our ruling elites” & their “weak, incompetent” servants. These “mediocre” American men “despise figures like Vladimir Putin,” Martin said, “not because he’s an enemy of the West, but because he reminds them of their inadequacies.”

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#EdMartin’s …appearances on #RT surged again in 2021, when he did roughly 60 spots, compared w/ 50 over the prior 4½ years. He was often asked about #Jan6, 2021, Capitol riot prosecutions, 3 of whose defendants HE REPRESENTED, & mounting federal & state investigations of #Trump, which he strongly & repeatedly criticized.

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…last Sept #US authorities charged 2 #RT employees w/ allegedly funneling $10M to bankroll *unknowing* pro-#Trump #influencers to publish thousands of videos that pushed #Kremlin #propaganda. Dual Russian-American citizens Dimitri Simes & his wife, Anastasia, were charged w/ violating economic sanctions, in part for his paid work for another #Russia state television network.…

…AG #PamBondi shut down the #FBI task force investigating #ForeignInfluence….

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