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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 00:23:45 JST Nonilex

   #Trump’s DC #USAttorney pick appeared on #Russia state media over 150 times
   
Nominee #EdMartin did not disclose his #RT & #Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the #Senate. The #State Dept has said the networks act like arms of #RussianIntelligence.

   #law #NationalSecurity #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #RussianDisinformation #WhiteSupremacy #Jan6
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 06:55:35 JST Nonilex

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     Hours before #Trump announced US missile strikes on #Syria in response to a chemical attack that killed 90 civilians in April 2017, Ed Martin said on the Russian state television network #RT America that Syrian President Bashar al-#Assad might not be to blame. Instead, Martin told viewers, the situation was “engineered” in Washington “by the people that want war in Syria.”

     #law #DC #USAttorney #Russia #NationalSecurity #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #RussianDisinformation #WhiteSupremacy #Jan6

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 06:55:35 JST Nonilex

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     In early 2022, #EdMartin told an interviewer on the same arm of #RT’s global network that “there’s no evidence” of a Russian military buildup on #Ukraine’s borders, criticizing US officials as warmongering & ignoring #Russia’s security concerns. Russia invaded 9 days later, igniting a war that continues today.
     
Martin is now interim #USAttorney for #DC & #Trump’s pick to serve full time in the role.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 06:55:58 JST Nonilex

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     But as a *conservative* activist & fmr #Missouri Republican ofcl, #EdMartin appeared >150 times on #RT & #Sputnik — networks funded & directed by the Russian govt — as a guest commentator from August 2016 to April 2024, acc/to a search of their websites & the #InternetArchive’s database of TV broadcasts.

     #law #DC #USAttorney #Russia #NationalSecurity #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #RussianDisinformation #WhiteSupremacy #Jan6

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 06:55:58 JST Nonilex

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     #EdMartin did not disclose the appearances last month on a #Senate #Judiciary Cmte questionnaire, which asks nominees to list all media interviews. Analysis of television archives suggests he went on #RT & #Sputnik more often than on any major cable network during that span.

     #law #DC #USAttorney #Russia #NationalSecurity #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #RussianDisinformation #WhiteSupremacy #Jan6