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Ed Martin: A Unique Tenure

I don't recall an outgoing interim U.S. attorney holding a press conference at the end of their brief tenure, but then no one else has been a rolling clown show like Ed Martin. His endless self-promotion, Trump brown-nosing, and flagrant abuse of office sets a standard only his successor Jeanine Pirro could hope to match. Don't count her out.

The Peter Principle in Action

In an especially painful example of the Peter principle, th...