The Republicans of the Senate have found a Trump candidate, even they cannot support.

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The concept of how much “political capital” has a presidential administration is a vague and subjective think it has. In the case of the Donald Trump 2.0 regime, one of these events could be in progress: District of Columbia US lawyer candidate “Eagle” Ed Martins Opportunities to be confirmed by the Senate held by Republicans, there is reportedly “in danger”.

Eagle Ed is simply a good candidate who is a federal prosecutor according to traditional standards. On the one hand, he is a career-political operational, the only legal experience of which is a legal dispute in legal activism. He has never put a case on trial and worked in law enforcement authorities. But that’s just the beginning of it! Martin, additionally:

• Bought a laptop for a friend so that she could publish critical comments on the personal Facebook page of a judge who heard a case in which he was involved and then trained what she should say in these comments.

• seems to have lied to the Senate judicial committee by claiming that he was not knowing that a rioter of January 6th Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who performed several times in Martin’s podcast and was photographed with him at several public events, organized National Socialist convictions. NPR has a thorough overview of why this claim seems to be wrong, which is useful, but to achieve understanding, you can also look at these photos that Hale-Cusanelli once made itself:

The eagle In Eagle Ed, “Adler eye observers of the Nazi tendencies” must not be short. (In fact, Martin was briefly the leader of the conservative eagle Forum organization before the group released and sued him; This is the case that ended before the judge mentioned above, in which Martin was finally liable for the defamation of one of the founders of the daughters of the Eagle Forum, Phyllis sleep.)

• First of all, 150 appearances in the RT and Sputnik networks, which are sponsored and managed by the Russian government, failed to sponsor and guided interviews in which he had participated in a section of his judicial committee.

However, much of this is a fairly standard mix of Trump administration, which is personally dysfunctional/incompetent and open to the government of the United States by a white alpha-alpha-kaisergott. Nowadays it would not be disqualified. What does It seems that the Republican Senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis, announced that he will not support Martin – his nomination in a closely divided Senate – is that in addition to all the five years mentioned above, it has spent defending the attack on the certification of the election college. And in its current ability as over The US lawyer for the District of Columbia, Martin, down and dismissed prosecutors who worked on January 6th.

This brings us back to Trump’s shameful approval reviews – and the majorities of voters who say that in his behavior as president, he tries to overwrite the legal system on several fronts. In this context, it appoints someone who supported an uprising against the congress as the chief prosecutor in jurisdiction Where the congress is located Is not something Trump has the political capital. (Tillis’ statement is particularly relevant because he is a member of the judicial committee that can vote against the nomination of Martin before he passes to the full Senate. According to reports, there is also a handful of other moderate and Trump-Age-Gop senators in the full chamber, which are also not interested in confirming Martin.))

How members of the party can be against the confirmation of Martin upset The uprising against the congress is fit to serve as a president. Well, we said that political capital is a vague and subjective concept. Right?

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