President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was pulling his nominee to be the next U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin. “He’s a terrific person, and he wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought,

Washington — President Trump said Thursday he will announce a replacement for interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin, his controversial pick to be the top prosecutor in the District of Columbia.

President Donald Trump said that he will pull the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, after a key Republican senator said he could not support him for the job due to his defense of Jan.