Ed Martin's U.S. attorney nomination was cartoonishly ridiculous — and now it's dead.
Trump invested some real political capital into this absurdity, and in a sign of his growing weakness, this fiasco ends with nothing but embarrassment for him. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-ed-martin-nomination-us-attorney-jan-6-rcna205197
Steve Benen
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