By Andrew Goudsward
- 摘要
- 马丁领导了对特朗普相关案件的审查工作
- 其行为多次受到审查
- 马丁仍担任赦免律师职务
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has demoted Ed Martin, a senior official tasked with reviewing alleged improper uses of the legal system against President Donald Trump and his supporters, a source familiar with the move said on Monday.
马丁，特朗普的盟友，不再担任司法部“武器化工作组”的负责人，消息人士表示。司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）去年启动了这项工作，以审查针对特朗普总统、2021年1月6日冲击美国国会大厦的骚乱者以及拜登政府任期内其他行为的所谓政治动机。
马丁仍留在司法部担任赦免律师，负责向白宫推荐应赦免联邦罪行或缩短刑期的人员。消息人士称，他不再在司法部总部拥有办公室，而是被调到了赦免律师人员所在的卫星办公室。消息人士要求匿名讨论此次内部人事变动。
当被问及马丁是否被降级时，司法部发言人仅表示：“特朗普总统任命埃德·马丁为赦免律师，埃德在该职位上继续出色工作。”
马丁暂未立即回应置评请求。
特朗普于2025年1月最初任命马丁为华盛顿特区临时美国检察官，他在该职位上监督驳回了所有剩余的国会骚乱案件，并解雇和降级了参与这些案件的检察官。他的正式提名在参议院受阻，一些共和党人对他支持骚乱者表示担忧。
此后，特朗普任命马丁担任司法部的多项职务，包括监督“武器化工作组”和推荐赦免名单。他在该职位上的行为多次受到审查。
路透社12月报道，马丁的职责包括参与一份重新审查国会骚乱事件的报告。
联邦检察官还就加州民主党参议员亚当·希夫（Adam Schiff）的抵押贷款相关调查向一名证人寻求信息，该证人涉及与马丁和联邦住房金融局局长威廉·普尔特（William Pulte）的沟通。
传票显示，司法部也在审查马丁和普尔特的行为，两人在针对至少三名政府批评者的抵押贷款调查中都发挥了重要作用。
9月，司法部撤回了马丁要求向一名FBI探员获取信息的请求，该探员此前在与2012年康涅狄格州牛顿小学枪击案相关的诽谤案中作证指控阴谋论者亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）。
报道：Andrew Goudsward 发自华盛顿；编辑：Matthew Lewis
Trump ally Ed Martin loses oversight of DOJ ‘weaponization’ work, source says
By Andrew Goudsward
- Ed Martin led effort to examine Trump cases
- His actions repeatedly drew scrutiny
- Martin remains in pardon attorney role
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has demoted Ed Martin, a senior official tasked with reviewing alleged improper uses of the legal system against President Donald Trump and his supporters, a source familiar with the move said on Monday.
Martin, a Trump ally, is no longer the head of the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, the source said. Attorney General Pam Bondi started the effort last year to examine alleged political motivations behind the department’s criminal cases against Trump, the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and other actions taken during former President Joe Biden’s term.
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Martin remains at the department as pardon attorney, tasked with recommending to the White House people who should be pardoned for federal crimes or have their sentences cut short. He no longer has an office in Justice Department headquarters and was moved to a satellite office where the pardon attorney staff are housed, the source said. The source spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an internal personnel move.
Asked to comment on whether Martin had been demoted, a Justice Department spokesman said only: “President Trump appointed Ed Martin as Pardon Attorney and Ed continues to do a great job in that role.”
Martin could not immediately be reached for comment.
Trump initially named Martin as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., in January 2025, where he oversaw the dismissal of all remaining Capitol riot cases and the firings and demotions of prosecutors who worked on them. His nomination to serve in the role permanently stalled in the Senate, where some Republicans expressed misgivings about his support for rioters.
Trump then named Martin to a varied Justice Department role that included overseeing the Weaponization Working Group and recommending pardons. His actions in the post have repeatedly drawn scrutiny.
Martin’s role has included working on a report re-examining the Capitol attack, Reuters reported in December.
Federal prosecutors also sought information from a witness in a mortgage-related investigation into Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California, a longtime Trump adversary, about communications with Martin and William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
The subpoenas suggested the DOJ was also scrutinizing the actions of Martin and Pulte, who both played important roles in mortgage investigations against at least three critics of the administration.
The department in September retracted a demand from Martin for information from an FBI agent who previously testified against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a defamation case tied to the 2012 school massacre in Newton, Connecticut.
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis