President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening he is appointing Ed Martin to be an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice with two jobs, Pardon Attorney and Director of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group. The appointment comes just hours after Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he has capably served as interim U.S. Attorney under Trump for the past several months, in the face of Republican opposition over his support for J6ers that was led by Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The new positions do not require Senate confirmation. Trump’s announcement also comes after Martin was spit on by a deranged leftist during a sidewalk interview with Newsmax Thursday afternoon live on…

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