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华盛顿讯——总统周五下午在Truth Social平台发文宣布，曾在司法部任职期间卷入多起争议的亲特朗普律师埃德·马丁将离开特朗普政府。
马丁曾担任哥伦比亚特区临时联邦检察官，其任期充满动荡。之后他出任时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪的“政治迫害专项工作组”负责人，最近则担任赦免事务律师——这是司法部的咨询岗位，负责审查赦免申请并提出建议。
马丁是特朗普提名的首位华盛顿特区联邦最高检察官，但未能获得共和党控制的参议院足够支持以获得永久性确认。议员们反对他为2021年1月6日冲击美国国会大厦的骚乱参与者辩护的行为。
特朗普写道：“埃德·马丁从一开始就追随我，作为律师、政治迫害专项工作组负责人以及哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官，他表现出色。”他补充称，马丁“将离开政府，为即将到来的中期选举以及2028年总统大选在外参与法律斗争”。
在马丁担任临时联邦检察官期间，十余名负责调查1月6日国会山骚乱事件的试用期联邦检察官被解雇。马丁曾在特朗普输掉2020年总统大选后参与“阻止偷窃大选”运动，他还下令检察官启动内部调查，审查他们为何对部分1月6日涉案被告提起重罪妨害指控。
埃德·马丁于2025年5月13日在华盛顿出席新闻发布会。克雷格·哈德森 为《华盛顿邮报》供图 盖蒂图片社
他办公室的首席刑事主管辞职，指控马丁施压其启动刑事调查，并冻结拜登政府时期环保署发放的一笔拨款相关资产，尽管当时没有任何犯罪证据。
此后，他还将办公室内多名检察官降职为入门级岗位，引发工作人员不满，并促成该办公室职业检察官大规模离职。
马丁因频繁在社交媒体上公布调查对象而引发争议，违反了司法部检察官手册中的相关规定。
据消息人士透露，职业律师阻止了他对参议院少数党领袖查尔斯·舒默展开刑事调查。舒默曾在2020年发表言论称，几名保守派最高法院大法官将因缩减堕胎权的举措“付出代价”。
他针对乔治敦大学法学院的行为引发了哥伦比亚特区纪律惩戒办公室提起的道德投诉。马丁曾威胁，如果该校不放弃多元化、公平性和包容性政策，就停止聘用该校毕业生。
另有消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，马丁还被额外任命为特别助理联邦检察官，负责牵头针对加利福尼亚州民主党参议员亚当·希夫、纽约州检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯以及美联储理事丽莎·库克的抵押贷款相关调查。
但这一任命让他陷入麻烦：他在社交媒体上发布了自己身着棕色风衣站在詹姆斯位于布鲁克林的褐石住宅外的照片，此举激怒了司法部高层领导，最终导致他被解除政治迫害专项工作组的监督职责，此前消息人士曾向CBS新闻透露这一情况。
另有消息称，他还遭到托德·布兰奇领导的副检察长办公室官员批评，称其在政治迫害专项工作组的工作缺乏成效。
在政府监管机构获取并随后分享给《纽约时报》的邮件中，布兰奇在与马丁的一次交流中恼怒地表示：“我感到很沮丧。”在另一封邮件中，布兰奇斥责他公开讨论非公开调查的细节，写道：“埃德，这正在变成一个严重的问题。”
针对库克和希夫的调查迄今尚未有结果。在针对詹姆斯的案件中，一名联邦法官驳回了针对她的抵押贷款欺诈起诉书，理由是负责提起起诉的临时联邦检察官的任命非法。司法部已就该裁决提起上诉。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系马丁，请其就离开政府一事置评。
一位与马丁关系密切的官员周五向CBS新闻透露，马丁和布兰奇现已修复关系。
布兰奇在X平台上发文称，马丁是“热爱这个国家的爱国者”。
上述与马丁关系密切的消息人士称，最近几天布兰奇亲自指派他协助推广司法部的新举措，允许部分被禁止持有枪支的人员（如重刑犯）申请恢复持枪权利。
司法部也已就马丁正在面临的华盛顿特区道德调查案提交了利益声明，表示支持马丁。
本月早些时候，新任司法部长首次在大型集会中向司法部工作人员发表讲话，一名CBS新闻记者观察到马丁在现场为布兰奇鼓掌。
Ed Martin, controversial pardon attorney at DOJ, leaving Trump administration
August 21, 2026 / 3:48 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— Ed Martin, the pro-Trump lawyer who has been at the center of several controversies during his time at the Justice Department, is departing the Trump administration, the president announced in a post on Truth Social Friday afternoon.
Martin previously served as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during a tenure that was marked by turmoil. He later served as the head of then-Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “Weaponization Working Group” and has most recently served as pardon attorney, an advisory position in the department that involves reviewing clemency applications and making recommendations.
Martin was President Trump’s first pick to be the top federal prosecutor in D.C., but he failed to garner enough support from the Republican-controlled Senate to win permanent confirmation. Senators took issue with his advocacy on behalf of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Ed Martin has been with me from the very beginning, and done an incredible job as an Attorney, Director of the Weaponization Working Group, and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,” Mr. Trump wrote, adding he is “leaving to go outside to fight Legal Battles for the upcoming Midterm Election, and the Presidential Election of 2028.”
Under Martin’s watch as interim U.S. attorney, more than a dozen probationary federal prosecutors who had handled investigations into the Jan. 6 attack were fired. Martin, who was involved with the “Stop the Steal” movement in the wake of Mr. Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, also ordered prosecutors to launch an internal inquiry into how they decided to charge some Jan. 6 defendants with felony obstruction charges.
Ed Martin speaks during a press conference on May 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images
The top criminal chief in his office resigned after alleging he had pressured her to launch a criminal investigation and freeze assets belonging to a grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency during the Biden administration — even though there was no evidence of a crime.
Later, he also demoted a number of prosecutors in the office to entry-level roles, angering staff and helping to spark a mass exodus of career prosecutors from the office.
Martin made waves by frequently announcing the targets of his investigations on social media, in violation of the Justice Department’s manual governing the rules for prosecutors.
Career lawyers blocked him from opening a criminal investigation into Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer over political comments he made in 2020 in which Schumer said that several conservative Supreme Court justices would “pay the price” over actions that scaled back abortion rights, sources said.
His targeting of Georgetown University Law Center later earned him an ethics complaint by D.C.’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Martin threatened to cease hiring the school’s graduates if it did not abandon its policies on diversity, equity and inclusion.
He was also separately deputized as a special assistant U.S. attorney and tasked with helping lead mortgage-related investigations into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, sources familiar with the probes told CBS News.
That role, however, landed him in hot water after he publicly posted photos of himself wearing a brown trenchcoat outside of James’ brownstone in Brooklyn, a move that angered senior department leadership and ultimately contributed to his removal from overseeing the Weaponization Working Group, sources previously told CBS News.
He also faced criticism from officials in the deputy attorney general’s office under Todd Blanche for what they saw as a lack of productivity on the Weaponization Working Group, sources previously said.
In emails obtained by a government watchdog that were later shared with the New York Times, Blanche bristled in one exchange with Martin, telling him “I am frustrated.” In another email, Blanche scolded him for publicly discussing details of a non-public investigation, writing: “This is becoming a real problem, Ed.”
The cases against Cook and Schiff have thus far not materialized. In James’ case, a federal judge dismissed an indictment against her related to mortgage fraud on the grounds that the interim U.S. attorney who secured her indictment was unlawfully appointed to that role. The DOJ has appealed that ruling.
CBS News has reached out to Martin for comment about his departure from the administration.
An official close to Martin told CBS News on Friday that Martin and Blanche have since mended their relationship.
In a post on X, Blanche called Martin a “patriot who loves this nation.”
In recent days, the source close to Martin said that Blanche personally assigned him to help promote the Justice Department’s new initiative to allow some people who are prohibited from possessing firearms, such as convicted felons, to petition to have their rights restored.
The Justice Department has also since filed a statement of interest in support of Martin in the ongoing ethics case against him in D.C.
A CBS News reporter also observed Martin at the Justice Department applauding for Blanche, after the newly confirmed attorney general addressed department staff in a large gathering for the first time earlier this month.
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