INSIDER: Swampy scumbaggery at its finest

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There was always a method to Shifty Schiff’s madness, and it has the distinct aroma of a bipartisan pack of rodents.

A lying, scheming conspiracy monger who was rewarded with a promotion to a U.S. Senate seat by California voters, Adam Schiff moved to thwart one of President Donald J. Trump’s most important nominations when he placed an indefinite hold on Ed Martin, who was tapped to be the next U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.

BREAKING: I’m placing a hold on President Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC.

For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech.

His nomination must be blocked.

— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) April 1, 2025

It turns out that the hold served the purpose of delaying a Senate Judiciary Committee vote – and possibly a full Senate vote – for long enough to run out the clock on Martin’s interim appointment with a May 20 deadline for him to be confirmed.

And when it comes to dragging out the vote, the devil is in the details because if he fails to get the votes, a provision would be triggered that would allow the sitting district judge to usurp Trump’s presidential power and pick his own top prosecutor.

According to 28 U.S. Code § 546: “If an appointment expires under subsection (c)(2), the district court for such district may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled. The order of appointment by the court shall be filed with the clerk of the court.”

As insane as it sounds, it’s true: If Senate Republicans block the confirmation of Ed Martin, anti-Trump activist Judge James Boasberg (the same one who is blocking deportation flights and who helped cover up the Russiagate fraud) will get to hand-pick the U.S. Attorney instead. pic.twitter.com/hkrckPPjtJ

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 5, 2025

The judge who could fill the spot is none other than Obama appointee James Boasberg, who has defied the odds by being picked as the presiding judge over numerous high-profile cases of major constitutional significance involving Trump. The guy just somehow miraculously turns up at key junctures more than Forrest Gump.

Further complicating matters for Trump and his ability to put his own sheriff in charge of the largest organized crime scene outside of Kiev is one Republican who now seems determined to sink Martin based on the horsesh*t excuse that he represented January 6, 2021 protesters who were being railroaded by former AG Merrick Garland, many of whom would become political prisoners in a travesty that one would expect to see in a human rights abusing foreign hellhole.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) met with “Eagle Ed” and later told reporters that he will not vote to advance him out of committee.

#BREAKING: Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) informs the White House he officially OPPOSES the confirmation of Trump’s pick for U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin, which could entirely derail the nomination. pic.twitter.com/mtri2AgFgr

“Most of my concerns related to January 6th.”

“I’ve…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 6, 2025

If the North Carolina Republican follows through, it would effectively prevent Martin from taking the job that Trump hand-picked him for, and put the ball in Boasberg’s hands, allowing him to appoint an unethical partisan legal assassin cut from the same cloth as former Special Counsel Jack Smith for the position. Who knows? Maybe he’ll actually bring Smith back for the gig.

The glimmer of hope in Martin’s favor is that Tillis is a cowardly weasel bereft of even a scintilla of principle who could back down just like he did with Pete Hegseth, after he encouraged a last-minute smear campaign from the then-nominee’s former sister in-law. Hegseth called him on it, and Tillis’s resistance dissolved faster than a wet piece of toilet paper.

Even if Tillis does capitulate, a full Senate confirmation is no sure thing, not with Mitch McConnell’s mob prepared to do their part to protect the rotten D.C. rackets from a no-nonsense public servant like Martin, who could be the most threatening Trump nomination of them all.

Amid an intense pressure campaign, there are some indications that he could back down again.

“Our understanding is that if the Senate does not confirm a U.S. attorney before an acting U.S. attorney’s term expires, the attorney general can still pick the next acting replacement as long as it is done before the original appointment expires under 28 USC 546,” a Tillis spox told Fox News Digital, suggesting that AG Pam Bondi could spare the country from Boasberg’s malice.

If the attorney general does get to pick, she should give Matt Gaetz a call and then watch Tillis’s head explode.

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