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Ed Martin has made a career on two key planks: blind loyalty to Donald Trump and incompetence. Martin first gained a national spotlight when Trump appointed him as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin was not subtle about how he would approach the role, publicly calling his office “President Trump’s Lawyers.” Martin lived up to this label, investigating his own office’s prosecution of the January 6 insurrection, firing prosecutors who had been involved in the investigation, and declining to prosecute new crimes from Trump loyalists. He acted as a partisan for Trump’s agenda in other ways, throwing the weight of his office behind initiatives such as DOGE and the administration’s anti-DEI push. Trump quickly found a new use for Martin, appointing him to be pardon attorney and as the head of the DOJ’s task force on the “weaponization” of the DOJ under Biden. In both roles he continued helping Trump’s friends and persecuting his enemies. Martin advocated for a blatantly politicized principle of pardons: “No MAGA left behind,” as he put it. He called for the attempted kidnappers of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to be pardoned, and he hired a January 6 rioter who called for police officers to be murdered. As investigator of “weaponization,” Martin advocated for public shaming of individuals deemed to have unfairly persecuted Trump and investigated figures such as New York Attorney General Letitia James and U.S. Senator Adam Schiff ostensibly for mortgage fraud. Trump had good reason to expect the subservience he enjoyed from Martin. Martin was a key part of the “Stop the Steal” movement. The day before the January 6 insurrection he urged a crowd to overturn the election, and he was actually present while the crowd breached the Capitol, a situation he described as “nothing out of hand.” Following the insurrection, Martin organized support funds for many of the insurrectionists facing charges, including violent criminals and militia organizers. Despite his protestations Martin clearly believes that no one did anything wrong on January 6. |
¶ As Interim U.S. Attorney For The District Of Columbia, Martin Acted As A Partisan For The Trump Administration
January 20, 2025: Donald Trump, In One Of His Very First Acts As President, Appointed Ed Martin As United States Attorney For The District Of Columbia. From a US Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia press release: “On January 20, 2025, just minutes after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Edward R. Martin, Jr. was appointed and sworn in as Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.” [US Attorney’s Office For the District of Columbia, 1/20/25]
February 24, 2025: Martin Referred To Himself And His Office As “President Trump’s Lawyers,” Contradicting His Oath To Uphold The Constitution. According to The Guardian, “The interim US attorney for Washington DC Ed Martin has explicitly declared himself and other federal attorneys to be the president’s lawyers rather than an independent, law-abiding officer sworn to uphold the constitution. ‘As President Trumps’ [sic] lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first,’ the US attorney’s office posted in a image on X, signed by Martin. The statement directly contradicts the federal oath of office Martin swore, which requires attorneys to ‘conduct myself uprightly and according to law’ and ‘support the constitution of the United States’ – with no mention of personal loyalty to any president.” [The Guardian, 2/24/25]
¶ Martin Ended Prosecutions For The January 6 Insurrection And Shifted Resources Towards Investigations Into The Prosecutions
January 27, 2025: Martin Ordered D.C. Prosecutors To Investigate Their Own Office’s Prosecution Of January 6 Rioters. According to The Washington Post, “In an email to staff Monday morning, Martin stated that he had appointed Denise Cheung, chief of the Criminal Division, and Jon Hooks, chief of the Fraud, Public Corruption and Civil Rights section, to lead a “special project” investigating the office’s charging of more than 250 Capitol riot defendants with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress, a statute the Supreme Court ruled last June was too broadly applied. ‘Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office … and we need to get to the bottom of it,’ Martin wrote in the email, saying he expected a preliminary report by Friday. A copy of the email was viewed by The Washington Post. ‘Please deliver to Jonathan and/or Denise all information you have related to the use of 1512 charges including all files, documents, notes, emails and other information,’ Martin wrote, using the number that refers to the obstruction statute’s section number in the federal code. ‘Be comprehensive and assertive in this, please,’ he said, adding: ‘This 1512 project is important work.’” [Washington Post, 1/27/25]
- Martin’s Investigation Of January 6 Prosecutions Echoed Donald Trump’s Rhetoric That “Prosecutors Be Prosecuted” And Went Against The Judgement Of Lower Court Judges. According to The Washington Post, “Martin’s tasking of two of the highest-ranking supervisors in the office of 300 federal prosecutors — the nation’s largest U.S. attorney’s office — to carry out the review stoked criticism from current and former Justice Department officials that he is helping the Trump administration sow discord in the office, divert prosecutorial resources and punish prosecutors making reasonable legal judgments. Prosecutors’ use of the obstruction statute was approved by nearly all judges who reviewed it before it reached the high court. But his focus on prosecutors’ charging decisions follows calls by Trump and some supporters for prosecutors to be prosecuted.” [Washington Post, 1/27/25]
January 31, 2025: Martin Dismissed D.C. Prosecutors Who Had Been Working On Prosecuting The January 6 Riot. According to The Washington Post, “Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office’s scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said. The prosecutors were on probationary status after being converted to full-time from shorter-term positions after Election Day under circumstances the Trump administration is investigating, according to documents from Martin and acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove that were emailed around 5 p.m. and viewed by The Washington Post.” [Washington Post, 1/31/25]
February 28, 2025: Martin Demoted Prosecutors Who Had Worked On Cases Against Proud Boy And Oath Keeper Militia Involved In January 6. According to The New York Times, “Several top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., were demoted on Friday to low-level positions handling minor crimes, another step in a campaign of retribution against Justice Department officials perceived as enemies by the Trump administration. Those demoted include one prosecutor who had overseen all cases arising from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and at least two who had worked on the trials of members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia, according to people with knowledge of the moves, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The abrupt personnel changes, announced in a series of emails sent by Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, were the latest upheavals in one of the country’s most important federal prosecutors’ offices.” [New York Times, 2/28/25]
March 19, 2025: Martin Declined To Prosecute Former Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Following His Arrest For Assault. According to The New York Times, “Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, will not face criminal prosecution related to his arrest last month on assault charges after he scuffled with a protester at a bizarre news conference held outside the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter. The decision not to prosecute Mr. Tarrio was made this week by Ed Martin, a Trump loyalist who is serving as the acting U.S. attorney in Washington, the person said. The Washington attorney’s office handles both federal and local crimes.” [New York Times, 3/19/25]
¶ Martin Acted As A Partisan For Donald Trump’s Political Agenda
February 2025: Martin Threatened Criminal Investigations Against Opposition To Elon Musk’s DOGE. According to The Washington Post, “Interim U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. alleged in a statement Monday that his office in D.C. had found evidence that people ‘committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting’ employees of Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ — an unusual statement that came without any public criminal charges. Hours after making public a letter he wrote to Musk saying the U.S. attorney’s office would ‘pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people,’ Martin posted on X that his ‘initial review of the evidence’ had found wrongdoing and hinted that he planned to take legal action.” [Washington Post, 2/3/25]
- Martin’s Conduct Raised Alarms From Previous U.S. Attorneys About Suppression Of Freedom Of Speech. According to The Washington Post, “Barbara McQuade, who served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan under President Barack Obama, called Martin’s letter highly unusual and said it appeared designed to silence Musk’s critics. ‘It strikes me as an effort to put a chilling effect on people who might be inclined to exercise their First Amendment rights,’ said McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor. ‘That is an abuse of power.’” [Washington Post, 2/3/25]
March 2025: Martin Demanded That Georgetown University End DEI Practices, And Declared That His Office Would Not Hire Applicants From Any University Using DEI. According to The Guardian, “A Donald Trump-appointed US attorney has told one of the country’s top law schools to immediately end diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, warning that his justice department office will not hire students or other affiliates associated with a university that utilizes DEI. In an extraordinary letter sent to the dean of Georgetown law school, the recently appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, said he was investigating the academic institution after it had come to his ‘attention reliably’ that they were teaching and promoting DEI. ‘This is unacceptable,’ wrote Martin, in a letter re-sent this week after the original sent in February was misaddressed, according to the Washington Post. ‘At this time, you should know that no applicant for our fellows program, our summer internship, or employment in our office who is a student or affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI will be considered.’” [Guardian, 3/6/25]
- March 2026: The D.C. Bar’s Board Of Appeals For Professional Responsibility Filed Ethics Charges Against Martin For His Conduct Toward Georgetown. According to The New York Times, “The disciplinary body for lawyers in the District of Columbia has filed ethics charges against Ed Martin, a senior Justice Department official in the Trump administration, accusing him of misconduct in seeking to punish Georgetown University’s law school, according to a filing. Mr. Martin, who has spearheaded efforts by President Trump to use the Justice Department to punish the president’s perceived enemies, faces two counts of misconduct. The filing, submitted on Friday before the D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility, is comparable to a civil lawsuit complaint in court and was signed by Hamilton P. Fox III, the disciplinary counsel for the D.C. bar.” [New York Times, 3/10/26]
¶ Senator From Martin’s Own Party Blocked His Nomination As USADC
May 6, 2025: Republican Senator Thom Tillis Announced That He Would Block Martin’s Nomination To Be U.S. Attorney For The District Of Columbia In The Senate Judiciary Committee. According to NBC News, “Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he wouldn't support Ed Martin, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., most likely blocking the path to confirmation for the ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer who had closely aligned himself with Jan. 6 defendants. ‘I’ve indicated to the White House I wouldn’t support his nomination,’ Tillis said Tuesday after meeting with Martin on Monday night. Tillis is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is overseeing Martin's nomination. The panel has 12 Republicans and 10 Democrats, meaning if all other members aside from Tillis voted along party lines, the vote on Martin would end in a tie and his nomination would not be reported favorably to the full Senate.” [NBC, 5/6/25]
May 8, 2026: Trump Withdrew Martin’s Nomination As USADC. According to Courthouse News Service, “President Donald Trump will withdraw Ed Martin as his pick to become U.S. attorney for D.C., he said in the Oval Office Thursday morning. The move comes after Martin’s nomination was thrown into jeopardy by North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, who said earlier this week that he would vote against him in a key procedural ballot in the Senate Judiciary Committee.” [Courthouse News Service, 5/8/26]
¶ As Pardon Attorney, Martin Spearheaded Efforts To Pardon Right-Wing Violence And Persecute “Weaponization”
May 8, 2025: Donald Trump Appointed Martin As Pardon Attorney And Head Of A Task Force To Investigate The “Weaponization” Of The DOJ Under Joe Biden. According to The Hill, “President Trump plans to put Ed Martin, his first pick for U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., who was rebuffed by the Senate, in a far-reaching role at the Justice Department. In a Thursday evening post on his social media site, Trump said Martin would serve as both the head of a new Weaponization Working Group and as the U.S. pardon attorney from a perch in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. ‘Ed will make sure we finally investigate the Weaponization of our Government under the Biden Regime, and provide much needed Justice for its victims,’ Trump wrote.” [The Hill, 5/9/25]
¶ Martin Pushed To Persecute Those Deemed Guilty Of “Weaponization”
May 13, 2025: Martin Suggested That The Weaponization Task Force Would Name And Shame Those They Deemed Guilty Who Could Not Be Charged. According to NBC News, “Ed Martin described himself at a press conference as the ‘captain’ of the group that is investigating prosecutors who launched past investigations into Trump and his allies. ‘There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them,’ Martin said. ‘And we will name them, and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed. And that’s a fact. That’s the way things work. And so that’s, that’s how I believe the job operates.’” [NBC, 5/13/25]
- The Weaponization Task Force Targeted Figures Involved In Cases Against Donald Trump, Such As Letitia James, Jack Smith, And Alvin Bragg. According to NBC News, “That group is due to examine work including that of former Special Counsel Jack Smith; any federal cooperation with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who prosecuted Trump's hush money case, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil case against the Trump Organization; the Justice Department's handling of cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack; and criminal prosecutions of anti-abortion activists, among other issues.” [NBC, 5/13/25]
August 2025: Martin Attempted To Intimidate Letitia James, Calling On Her To Resign As New York Attorney General And Showing Up Outside Her House. According to The Associated Press, “President Donald Trump’s political weaponization czar sent a letter urging New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign from office ‘as an act of good faith’ four days after starting his mortgage fraud investigation of her. Then he showed up outside her house. Ed Martin, the director of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, told James’ lawyer on Aug. 12 the Democrat would best serve the ‘good of the state and nation’ by resigning and ending his probe into alleged paperwork discrepancies on her Brooklyn townhouse and a Virginia home. ‘Her resignation from office would give the people of New York and America more peace than proceeding,’ Martin wrote. ‘I would take this as an act of good faith.’ Then last Friday, Martin turned up outside James’ Brooklyn townhouse in a “Columbo”-esque trench coat, accompanied by an aide and New York Post journalists. He didn’t meet with James or go inside the building. A Post writer saw him tell a neighbor: ‘I’m just looking at houses, interesting houses. It’s an important house.’” [Associated Press, 8/19/25]
February 2026: Martin Left Weaponization Working Group Amid Reports That He Illegally Shared Evidence Against Letitia James And Adam Schiff. According to CNN, “A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump’s political enemies, at least two sources familiar with the review told CNN. It was at least part of the reason Martin was pushed out of DOJ headquarters early this year. The review, which was overseen by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, focused on whether grand jury material gathered in the department’s mortgage fraud inquiries into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James had been illegally shared with people not authorized to possess that information, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.” [CNN, 2/4/26]
¶ Martin Pushed For Pardons, Positions For Republican Criminals
May 22, 2025: Martin Argued In Favor Of Pardoning Attempted Kidnappers Of Gretchen Whitmer, Calling Them “Victims.” According HuffPost, “‘On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind. In my opinion, these are victims just like January 6. So we are processing that,’ Ed Martin Jr. said in an interview Thursday with ‘The Breanna Morello Show’ on Spotify. Martin was responding to a question about the convictions of Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox, who were accused of leading the violent kidnapping plot and trying to blow up a bridge to ease their escape.” [HuffPost, 5/28/25]
May 26, 2025: Martin Posted, “No MAGA Left Behind,” On Twitter In Praise Of Trump Pardoning A Sheriff Convicted Of Bribery. According to CNN, “As President Donald Trump’s interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin was remarkably blunt about intermingling Trump’s political goals with the ostensibly independent actions of the Justice Department. That might have cost him the permanent gig. So leave it to Martin, now Trump’s pardon attorney, to say the quiet part out loud about Trump’s pardons. ‘No MAGA left behind,’ Martin posted Monday on X. Martin’s missive came after Trump pardoned a MAGA-supporting former Virginia sheriff, Scott Jenkins, who had been convicted of bribery.” [CNN, 5/28/25]
July 1, 2025: Martin Hired As His Advisor A January 6 Rioter Who Encouraged Murder Of Police Officers. According to The New York Times, “A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, is serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, according to people familiar with the group’s activities.” [New York Times, 7/1/25]
¶ Martin Was A Key Figure In The Stop The Steal Movement
¶ Martin Called On Trump’s Supporters To “Stop The Steal” On Eve Of Capitol Insurrection
January 5, 2021: Martin Called On Donald Trump’s Supporters To “Stop The Steal” The Night Before The January 6 Insurrection. According to NBC News, “Ed Martin, a former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, was a major proponent of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He gave a speech to Trump supporters in Washington on the eve of the Capitol attack, calling on ‘die-hard true Americans’ to work until their ‘last breath’ to ‘stop the steal,’ according to video posted on social media.” [NBC News, 6/7/24]
January 6, 2021: Martin Participated In The January 6 Insurrection And Was At The Capitol After It Had Been Breached. According to NBC News, “On the morning of Jan. 6, Martin attended Trump’s speech near the White House before joining the crowd in marching to the Capitol and posting about it on social media. Capitol video surveillance footage published by House Republicans shows him arriving on the grounds at around 2:20 p.m. By that time, Trump’s backers had already broken through police lines and stormed the building itself in an attempt to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.” [NBC News, 6/7/24]
- 2:53 PM, January 6, 2021: Ed Martin Referred To The Insurrection As “Rowdy” But “Nothing Out Of Hand.” On Twitter, Ed Martin wrote “I’m at the Capitol right now. Abd (sic) I was at the POTUS speech earlier. Rowdy crowd but nothing out of hand. Ignore the #FakeNews”
[Twitter, @EagleEdMartin, 1/6/21]
¶ Martin Ran A Nonprofit That Raised Money For January 6 Defendants
Martin Led The Patriot Freedom Project, A Nonprofit That Raised Money For January 6 Defendants. According to Rolling Stone, “The lawyer whom Donald Trump has empowered to investigate the Jan. 6 prosecutors previously helped run a nonprofit that raised money for dozens of people who were charged with the most serious offenses, including sedition, conspiracy, and assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol. [...] Martin, who’s also now the Justice Department’s pardon attorney, helped lead the Patriot Freedom Project, a controversial nonprofit that supports Jan. 6 defendants and their families. A majority of the defendants that Patriot Freedom Project supported were convicted of assaulting police officers or more serious offenses, according to a Rolling Stone analysis of the group’s website and other online sources.” [Rolling Stone, 5/16/25]
- Patriot Freedom Project Supported Violent Offenders And Insurrection Organizers, Including Key Figures Within Far Right Militias. According to Rolling Stone, “Rolling Stone confirmed that some of the most violent Jan. 6 offenders received funding directly from Patriot Freedom Project: Oath Keepers militia lieutenants Jessica Watkins and Kenneth Harrelson, and a top Proud Boy, Zach Rehl; decorated Army vet Robert Morss, who used his military training to coordinate rioters; and Albuquerque Head and Kyle Young, two members of the mob that viciously beat, tazed, and robbed Officer Michael Fanone.” [Rolling Stone, 5/16/25]
September 2023: Martin Hosted A Fundraising Dinner With Patriot Freedom Project Founder Cynthia Hughes And Honoring Insurrectionist Tim Hale. According to Rolling Stone, “In Sept. 2023, Martin hosted a fundraising dinner celebrating the work of Patriot Freedom Project during his group’s annual Schlafly Eagles Council in St. Louis. Hughes thanked him for ‘being such a great mentor and friend, and listening to me at 7 a.m. or 2 a.m.’ before launching into the story of Tim Hale. Being born ‘on the spectrum’ to a dysfunctional mother led to his being 'rough around the edges’ and having an affinity for ‘insensitive’ jokes that caused the judge to punish him “for doing nothing,” in Hughes’ telling. (‘Sometimes I call him a real jackass to be quite honest with you,’ she added, before insisting ‘he’s got a heart of gold.’)” [Rolling Stone, 5/16/25]
- Tim Hale’s Coworkers Described Him As Making Statements In Favor Of Hitler, White Supremacy, And Eugenics. According to Rolling Stone, “According to court records, dozens of Hale’s coworkers described him as an extremist who made ‘abhorrent’ statements, including that ‘Hitler should have finished the job’; that ‘Jews, women, and Blacks were on the bottom of the totem pole’; and that babies with disabilities should be shot.” [Rolling Stone, 5/16/25]
- 2025: Martin Lied To Congress About Not Knowing About Tim Hale’s Pro-Nazi Actions Despite Having Been Recorded In An Interview Implying They Were A Joke. According to Rolling Stone, “According to Sen. Dick Durbin (D. Ill.), the ranking member on the committee: ‘Mr. Martin told me that he hadn’t seen photos of Mr. Hale with a Hitler mustache prior to that award ceremony.’ And Martin told The Forward that he’d been ignorant of Hale’s inflammatory rhetoric. ‘I denounce everything about what that guy said,’ adding that at the time he praised Hale at Bedminster, ‘I didn’t know it.’ But in an hour-long interview, taped prior to that awards ceremony, Martin talks to Hale in detail about the photo, ‘where you resemble Hitler, or whatever,’ as Martin put it. Martin suggested, in the discussion, that Hale was ‘goofing around’ by posing for Führer photos.” [Rolling Stone, 5/16/25]
¶ Martin Used Extremist And Incendiary Rhetoric And Associations
¶ Martin Regularly Expressed Extremist And Divisive Beliefs On Twitter
December 13, 2025: Ed Martin Called Watergate A “Lie.”
[Twitter, @EagleEdMartin, 12/13/25]
March 26, 2026: Ed Martin Called Chuck Schumer A “Reptile.”
[Twitter, @EagleEdMartin, 3/26/26]
March 23, 2026: Martin Called For The Death Of Sheridan Gorman To Be “Avenged” And Blamed “The People Who Allowed The Illegals To Invade Us.”
[Twitter, @EaglerEdMartin, 3/23/26]
¶ Martin Was An Associate Of Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly
February 2015: Martin Took Over The Presidency Of The Eagle Forum, A Conservative Nonprofit Founded By Anti-Feminist Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly. According to St. Louis Public Radio, “Martin then pointed to his longstanding work with Schlafly and her group, Eagle Forum, which was founded in the 1970s during her successful fight against the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. ‘Eagle Forum is still a leading organization in the fight against the tyrannies of this age large and small,” Martin wrote. “I have been honored and humbled this weekend to learn that the board of Eagle Forum and Phyllis Schlafly have asked me to be president of this amazing organization. After a great deal of prayer, I have accepted the post.’” [St. Louis Public Radio, 2/2/15]
- Phyllis Schlafly Derided Feminism And Believed That Marital Rape Was Impossible Because By Getting Married Women Automatically Consent To Sex. According to Right Wing Watch, “Last year, Phyllis Schlafly spoke on the campus of Bates College where , among other things, she belittled the feminist movement as ‘teaching women to be victims,’ decried intellectual men as ‘liberal slobs’ and argued that feminism 'is incompatible with marriage and motherhood.' She then went on to top herself by claiming that a married woman cannot be sexually assaulted by her husband, saying: ‘By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape.’” [Right Wing Watch, 5/7/08]
2022: As Head Of Eagle Forum, Martin Earned $250,000 A Year. According to the Gateway Journalism Review, “These facts suggest that John and Bruce Schlafly, two sons of Phyllis who sided with Martin against one of their sisters in a dispute over control of their mother’s legacy, are largely letting Martin have his way, a source familiar with the family dynamics said. Both brothers are on the boards of both organizations, and John is Secretary/Treasurer of both as well. Neither of Schlafly’s two daughters plays any part in the ostensibly female-oriented organization, the source noted. ‘This doesn’t surprise me,’ he said. ‘It’s not like he’s getting $500,000. It doesn’t shock the conscience completely. But it’s what a lot of people expected would happen. He (Martin) is pushing it about as far as he can. He’s making $250,000-plus in the nonprofit sector for just 40 hours a week. Board members have a duty to prevent the squandering of assets, but that’s what Martin appears to be doing.’” [Gateway Journalism Review, 6/2/22]