Ed Martin, the outgoing prosecutor of Washington, DC, who will soon begin his role as a forgiveness lawyer of the DOJ and head of the so -called “weapons work group,” he said he plans to review and analyze the last minute pardons issued by former President Joe Biden.
Martin’s appointment for several powerful positions in the Department of Justice, after his rejected confirmation from the United States Senate, seems to have emboldened it to pursue more aggressively political objectives of President Donald Trump, according to a series of recent interviews with right -wing media and his press conference on Tuesday.
“I think Biden’s pardons need some scrutiny. And they need scrutiny because we want the forgives to import and be accepted and used correctly. So I think we are going to take a look at how they were and what they did,” Martin told ABC News during the press conference.
“If they are null and null, I am not sure how that works, but I can tell you that we have already had, I have had in my current position, or in my position as a US prosecutor., We had been looking at part of the behavior that surrounds the pellets and the White House Biden,” he said.
Martin, however, said that he does not believe that the use of Biden of “Pen Auto-Pen” is necessarily a problem, although Trump suggested that this is what he thinks makes them invalid.
Ed Martin speaks in an event organized by the representative Matt Gaetz, in the Capitol in Washington, on June 13, 2023.
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Martin also suggested that officials who cannot charge should be publicly ashamed, despite the policy of the Department of Justice that clearly establishes that prosecutors should avoid public comments about people without charge.
“There are some really bad actors, some people who did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we will charge them. But if they cannot be charged, we will name them, and we will name them. And in a culture that respects shame, they should be the people who are inflamed. And that is a fact. It is the way things work, and so it is how I think the work works, Martin works.
On his last day in office, Biden issued several last minute forgives to family members, including his brother, James Biden and his wife, Sara, her sister, Valerie, and her husband, John Owens, her brother, Francis. The former president had also forgiven his son, Hunter, for tax and weapons crimes a month before.
Biden forgave Dr. Anthony Fauci, who worked under the Biden administration to coordinate the Nation COVID-19 response and faced the public scrutiny of President Donald Trump.
The former president also forgave the retired general Mark Milley, a former president of the Jewish Staff Chiefs, who examined Trump’s role in the deadly insurrection of January 6.
Similarly, Biden forgave the members of the committee on January 6 who investigated Trump about insurrection.
