{"id":34266,"date":"2025-02-25T00:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/outcry-as-dc-us-attorney-claims-he-and-colleagues-are-president-trumps-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:44:35","slug":"outcry-as-dc-us-attorney-claims-he-and-colleagues-are-president-trumps-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/outcry-as-dc-us-attorney-claims-he-and-colleagues-are-president-trumps-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as DC US attorney claims he and colleagues are \u2018President Trump\u2019s lawyers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Martin condemned for X post that directly contradicts federal oath of office he swore to support constitution<\/p>\n<p>The interim US attorney for Washington DC Ed Martin has explicitly declared himself and other federal attorneys to be the president\u2019s lawyers rather than an independent, law-abiding officer sworn to uphold the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs President Trumps\u2019 [sic] lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first,\u201d the US attorney\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAO_DC\/status\/1894119675786621225\">posted in a image on X<\/a>, signed by Martin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/24\/us-attorney-trump-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Martin condemned for X post that directly contradicts federal oath of office he swore to support constitution The interim US attorney for Washington DC Ed Martin has explicitly declared himself and other federal attorneys to be the president\u2019s lawyers rather than an independent, law-abiding officer sworn to uphold the constitution. \u201cAs President Trumps\u2019 [sic] &#8230; <a title=\"Outcry as DC US attorney claims he and colleagues are \u2018President Trump\u2019s lawyers\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/outcry-as-dc-us-attorney-claims-he-and-colleagues-are-president-trumps-lawyers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Outcry as DC US attorney claims he and colleagues are \u2018President Trump\u2019s lawyers\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}