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Washington – President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is dropping his controversial election for the United States prosecutor in DC, Ed Martin.

“We have someone else who will be great,” Trump told White House journalists. “I was disappointed. Many people were disappointed, but this is how sometimes it works.”

It is an early defeat for Trump, although Martin’s nomination already seemed to be over. Senator Thom Tillis (RN.C.) said Tuesday that he would not support him in the Judicial Committee of the Senate. Only one Republican is needed in the committee to sink a nominee, assuming that all Democrats vote not. In this case, everyone was going to oppose Martin, given their extreme background.

Martin, an extreme right -wing defender who previously had no prosecuting experience, has been serving as the interim prosecutor of the United States for DC since Trump appointed him for the temporal position in January. Basically, it has spent the last months demonstrating its faithfulness with Trump: it fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors involved in criminal cases linked to the insurrection of January 6, 2021. He launched cases against January 6 of the accused. He released probes to Trump’s political enemies.

The time was being depleted for Martin to be confirmed before his interim position expires on May 20. After that, the judges of the United States District Court for the Columbia district can designate someone else for the place until the Senate confirms someone. They would not have chosen Martin.

Trump suggested that he was too busy with other things to continue fighting to try to confirm Martin. He said he plans to announce someone else for work in the next two days.

“I have so many different things that I am doing now, with the trade, you know,” he told reporters. “One person, I can only do, boom, I can only lift that small phone so many times in one day.”

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Tillis said he specifically opposed Martin because he was nominated to be the prosecutor of the United States in the district where the insurrection of January 6 occurred, where Martin was dropping cases against the people who participated in him.

“I am thinking about the future January 6,” Tillis told News themezone earlier this week. “If there is, we have to make it very clear, you enter the Capitol, you will receive a fine. You are going to prison. You made a bad mistake.”

His comments seemed to leave the door open to him potentially supporting Martin on a different role, and on Thursday, Trump suggested that he has other plans for Martin.

“I hope we can bring it to, either [the Justice Department] Or whatever, in some capacity, ”said the president.

The progressive defense groups, which have opposed the nomination of Martin to this work, indicated that they will monitor him in the future.

“Ed Martin is a serious threat to civil liberties and the rule of law, so any news indicating that he will no longer be the legal point of President Trump in DC is good news for the nation,” said Emily Peterson-Cassin, director of corporate power in the progress of demand for demand.

“But this threat is far from finishing,” he said. “Martin’s long and documented story of playing politics with the rule of law should disqualify him from working anywhere in the Government, much less the Department of Justice. We call on President Trump who keeps Martin away from any position of power.”