{"id":35704,"date":"2025-03-11T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-pick-for-washington-us-attorney-made-racist-comments-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:47:23","slug":"trump-pick-for-washington-us-attorney-made-racist-comments-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-pick-for-washington-us-attorney-made-racist-comments-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pick for Washington US attorney made racist comments | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian can reveal comments by Ed Martin advancing false and racist claims. Plus, just seven countries meet WHO dirty air guidelines<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/trump-pick-washington-us-attorney-ed-martin\">pick for Washington US attorney, Ed Martin<\/a>, has repeatedly made racist comments in social media posts and columns, the Guardian can reveal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did these comments appear?<\/strong> Some appeared in columns Martin wrote for the Evening Whirl, a crime tabloid in St Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Ukraine said before <\/strong><strong>the talks?<\/strong> \u201cWe are ready to do everything to achieve peace,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/11\/ukraine-russia-us-peace-talks-moscow-war-latest-live-news-europe?page=with%3Ablock-67d0052b8f080b7d65515861#block-67d0052b8f080b7d65515861\">the Ukrainian presidency\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak,<\/a> told reporters. Yermak also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/11\/ukraine-russia-us-peace-talks-moscow-war-latest-live-news-europe?page=with%3Ablock-67d00c0c8f08e08d028c95ae#block-67d00c0c8f08e08d028c95ae\">wrote for the Guardian this morning<\/a>, saying that a ceasefire has \u201cnever seemed closer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/first-thing-trump-pick-for-washington-us-attorney-made-racist-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian can reveal comments by Ed Martin advancing false and racist claims. Plus, just seven countries meet WHO dirty air guidelines Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump\u2019s pick for Washington US attorney, Ed Martin, has repeatedly made racist comments in social media posts and columns, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump pick for Washington US attorney made racist comments | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/trump-pick-for-washington-us-attorney-made-racist-comments-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump pick for Washington US attorney made racist comments | First Thing\">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-35704","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\/35704","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=35704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}