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Trump Reveals Fate Of Ed Martin After Key GOP Senator Drops Support

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President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that he plans to pull Ed Martin’s nomination for US Attorney for Washington D.C. after Republican North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis refused to vote for him.

Trump also told Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese that he has a new nominee and that he may move Martin to a different position in the Department of Justice (DOJ).

“We have somebody else that will be great. I just want to say Ed is unbelievable and hopefully we can bring him into, whether it’s DOJ or whatever, in some capacity because he’s really outstanding,” Trump said.

Trump told Reese he was “very disappointed” and alluded to Tillis’s dissent.

“He’s a terrific person but he wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought,” he said.

Tillis told reporters Tuesday that he would not be supporting Martin’s nomination, primarily due to differences in opinion on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots.

“If Mr. Martin were being put forth as a US Attorney for any district except the district where January 6 happened, the protest happened, I’d probably support him. But not in this district,” Tillis told reporters.

Tillis expressed that he believed anybody who breached the perimeter of the Capitol should have went to prison and said that he believed 200-300 people who Trump pardoned for their actions on Jan 6. did not deserve it.

“We have to be very clear that what happened on January the 6th was wrong. It was not prompted or created by other people to put those people in trouble. They made a stupid decision and they disgraced the United States by absolutely destroying the Capitol and I can’t have any patience for it,” Tillis said.

Trump lauded Martin’s tenure as acting U.S. attorney for DC. “He’s done a very good job, crime is down 25 percent in D.C. during his period of time.”

“I’m very disappointed in that but I have so many different things that I’m doing now with the trade, you know I’m one person I can only make, boom, I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day.”

Trump repeatedly expressed that he was let down.

“To me it was disappointing I’ll be honest. I have to be straight, I was disappointed, a lot of people were disappointed, but that’s the way it works some times.”

The White House will be announcing the new nominee some time in the next two days, Trump told Reese.

AUTHOR

Robert McGreevy

Reporter.

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In Ironic Twist, Man Who Allegedly Stole Kristi Noem’s Bag Is Illegal Migrant, DHS Sec Says

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The suspect who allegedly stole U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s bag while she dined with family at a hamburger restaurant late Easter Sunday is a criminal illegal migrant, authorities said Sunday.

Matt McCool, Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service Washington Field Office, announced Sunday that Secret Service agents, working closely with the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., had arrested a suspect believed to have robbed Noem of her bag. “The defendant was taken into custody without incident in the District of Columbia,” McCool said.

The suspect was a “serial offender” but he appeared not to have targeted Noem because of her person or position as DHS Secretary, McCool added. The suspect will face charges in a federal court, according to McCool.

“This individual is a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years,” Noem said in a post on X, while thanking the Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other law enforcement agencies investigating the theft that occurred April 20 at The Capital Burger. The restaurant is located a mile from the White House.

Neither Noem nor McCool named the suspect, but the New York Post — citing law enforcement sources — identified the suspect as Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, of Santiago, Chile.

“A law enforcement source in D.C. has confirmed to me the man accused of stealing DHS Sec. Noem’s purse is Mario Bustamante Leiva [sic],” Julio Rosas, national correspondent at The Blaze posted.

Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told NBC News over the phone that Bustamante-Leiva was in the country illegally.

Bustamante-Leiva is suspected of being the masked man who walked into the restaurant, past two plainclothes Secret Service officers and upstairs to a spot next to Noem’s table. There, he dragged Noem‘s purse toward himself — while Noem and her family dined — and left the restaurant with the purse tucked away under his jacket, according to NBC News. He passed by the Secret Service agents on his way out, according to the outlet.

“This was not an amateur. This was a person, a thief, that knew how to do this. You could see how he scouted the room out,” Martin told the outlet.

The stolen item was a $4,400 Gucci bag lying on the ground next to Noem and containing a $600 Louis Vuitton Clemence Purse and $3,000 in cash, according to the Post.

It also contained Noem‘s DHS access badge, her passport, various credit cards, blank checks, a set of keys and her driver’s license, NBC News reported.

Noem told podcaster, and Daily Caller Editorial Director, Vince Coglianese Wednesday that she felt the purse being moved from her feet, according to the Post.

“I thought it was my grandkids kicking me in the legs, but it was very professionally done,” Noem reportedly added on the “Vince” podcast.

Law enforcement agents were still seeking a second suspect in the theft of Noem’s possessions, Martin told NBC News.

Bustamante-Leiva was one of the most prolific thieves in London, U.K. — until he was jailed there in 2015 for conducting a five-month theft spree that included stealing phones, wallets, and computers collectively worth £21,000 (nearly $28,000), the Daily Mail reported.

Once, he stole a bag containing a whole family’s passports and airplane boarding passes, and in another instance, he brazenly stole a woman’s handbag as she chatted with a friend, the central London court reportedly learned during Bustamante-Leiva’s trial.

“You are dishonest to your fingertips,” the judge said to Bustamante-Leiva at his sentencing in London.

“Unfortunately, so many families in this country have been made victims by crime, and that’s why President Trump is working every single day to make America safe and get these criminal aliens off of our streets,” Noem said.

“What I can tell you is he won’t be back on the streets in America,” Martin told NBC News regarding the suspect.

AUTHOR

John Oyewale

Contributor

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