Trump pulls nomination for Ed Martin as top federal prosecutor post

President Donald Trump has indicated he will rescind the nomination to make Ed Martin the permanent U.S. Prosecutor for the Department of Justice after Senate Republicans made clear they would not support him.

Senator Thom Tillis of South Carolina, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Tuesday he would not support Martin’s nomination, which made it unlikely he would gather enough votes to advance.

Trump addressed the matter with reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office, saying: “To me it was disappointing. I’ll be honest, I have to be straight. I was disappointed, a lot of people were disappointed, but that’s the way it works sometimes.”

“So it works and he wasn’t rejected, but we felt it would be very – it would be hard,” Trump said. “And we have somebody else that we’ll be announcing over the next two days, who’s going to be great.”

Trump added they would look to see if they can “bring him [Martin] in too, whether it’s DOJ or whatever, in some capacity.”

This is a developing story and more information will be added as it becomes available.