ONE MORE stab in the back from *our man* Thom

I’m waiting for the CDC to put its official stamp on “Battered Constituent Syndrome.”   There appear to be a lot of victims of that condition here in The Old North State.

We’ve told you ad nauseam about Thom Tillis and his mealy-mouthed, border-line corrupt antics in the General Assembly and The United States Senate. 

There is a long list of instances where Tillis has lied to us and voted the opposite of what we were led to believe he would do.   Despite Thom’s regular attempts to work an amnesty *deal* with Democrats, the Tillis 2026 campaign has actually had the nerve to post quotes on X from their boss claiming to be in lockstep with Trump on deportations and closing the border.

During the first Trump administration, Tillis publicly trashed the concept of a border wall and stood strong in favor of gay marriage and gun control.  Here in Trump 2.0, Tillis is standing strong with RINOs like Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins in trashing Trump nominees and agenda planks.

NCGOPe types and other Tillis supporters tell us Tillis is with us 80 percent of the time.  *Isn’t it better to have an 80 percent ally than a full-throated Democrat? *

Maybe. IF IT WAS TRUE.

I’ve never seen Tillis anywhere near an 80 percent conservative rating.  (At least an honest one.). Scraggly Thom is typically in the mid-30s to low-40s.   That puts him on the liberal wing of the Senate GOP caucus and in the *conservative* wing of the Democrat caucus.  

In the last session — I’ll say it AGAIN — Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders voted to the right of Thom Tillis. 

Tillis has a neat little game going with the DC media.  He’s positioned himself as the Republican most likely to sink a Trump proposal in the Senate (three-seat GOP majority).  Tillis gets a lot of headlines and TV facetime.  The White House wines and dines him.  (Trump actually got so fed up with this that he openly solicited primary opponents for Tillis.)

For a short time, several times each month, Scraggly Thom gets to be the center of the political universe.  Never mind that he’s throwing a monkey wrench into efforts to save the country.  

Thom’s latest monkey wrench involves the appointment of Ed Martin -a defender of the J6 political prisoners – as US attorney for DC:

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is withholding support for President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C., a move that could result in MAGA villain Judge James Boasberg choosing who would fill the role — potentially even former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Trump, who announced in December 2024 that Ed Martin would serve as Chief of Staff at the Office of Management and Budget, installed Martin as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on January 20, 2025, later formally nominating him to take over long-term.

But Martin’s interim tag expires May 19, 2025. And due to D.C.’s unusual status within the federal government, the choice of who would fill the position could fall to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Charlie Kirk, and other prominent conservatives supporting Martin’s nomination have warned.

Martin’s defeat would deal a blow to critical components of Trump’s agenda.

The powerful U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. has two roles, which make it one of the most powerful perches in the American legal system — a seat from which much of the lawfare directed at Trump and his supporters originated during the Biden presidency.

Due to D.C.’s special status, the office serves in a role similar to a local district attorney. After taking over, Martin wasted no time turning the office’s resources towards prosecuting violent crime after a period of lawlessness under President Joe Biden, which saw crime soar.

But the office’s second role is the reason Martin has instilled fear in the Washington establishment.

Martin has shifted the focus of the office — the most powerful U.S. Attorney’s office — to corruption within the federal government itself.

Instead of spending millions targeting everyday Americans like pro-life advocates, practicing Catholics, and school board parents, Martin is pursuing criminals who have enriched themselves off of taxpayers, committed voter fraud, and other serious crimes. And he is doing so not just in Washington but across the globe.

“I have cases that I’m working on, that my office is working on, that are all over the world because we have jurisdiction, because of the way either an entity is based in D.C. or an American is overseas and has some connection to Washington, DC,” Martin told Breitbart News Daily in April.

With the clock ticking on Martin’s interim status, the Deep State is fighting back, and Tillis has emerged as a roadblock to Martin’s nomination on the Senate Judiciary Committee, through which Martin’s nomination must pass.

Tillis, who has expressed concerns with Martin’s comments while serving as an attorney for J6 defendants, is expected to meet with Martin Monday afternoon in his Senate office. […]

You might have missed this earlier.  Here’s what Tillis thinks of people defending those jailed over January 6.  He’s never been the least-bit interested in an honest investigation into what happened.  People got jailed for trespassing in The Capitol with much harsher sentences typically given to drug traffickers and other killers.

Oh, yeah.  Tillis swooned over Merrick Garland, the Biden attorney general who oversaw the Stalinist round-ups, the lengthy jail-stays with no hearings or trials,  and kangaroo proceedings related to January 6.

 

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Great comments for the conductor of the Kangaroo courts.  Not so much respect for the abused Trump supporters. (*That’s OUR Thom.*)

MORE:

[…] Breitbart News asked a Tillis spokesman if the senator would support Martin’s nomination, and if not, if he believes Judge Boasberg would choose someone more preferable.

The Tillis spokesperson would not commit to the senator supporting Martin and attempted to downplay the scenario of Boasberg choosing the nominee in the event Tillis chooses to block Trump’s nominee.

“Senator Tillis looks forward to meeting with Ed Martin,” the spokesman said. “Our understanding is that if the Senate does not confirm a U.S. Attorney before an acting U.S. Attorney’s term expires, the Attorney General can still pick the next acting replacement if it is done before the term expires under 28 USC 546.”

But Attorney General Pam Bondi would be extremely limited in whom she could appoint to that seat, with no immediately apparent practical choices Trump would relish.

She could use the Federal Vacancy Reform Act to install an acting U.S. Attorney for up to 200 days, although that person must be Senate-confirmed, have been employed by the federal government for 365 days (with a certain percentage of that time above the GS-15 level), or be the first assistant to the office.

This early in Trump’s administration, there are few options via that path — perhaps none available with the expertise or ability to perform the demanding duties of the position full-time. That option, among other problems, would waste critical time for the office to set a new direction and begin investigating and prosecuting cases — and would require the nomination and vetting of another U.S. Attorney nominee, as well as opening another vacancy inside the administration.

At the end of those 200 days, if the Senate has not yet confirmed someone, the district court appoints the next U.S. Attorney.

Alternatively, Bondi could use the statute under which Martin was appointed to install another interim U.S. Attorney for 120 days.

But after those brief 120 days, the district court again appoints the next U.S. Attorney if the Senate has not yet confirmed a replacement.

One name which fits the requirements for the district court is former Special Counsel Jack Smith, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland’s choice to take down Trump.

Among several bad dream outcomes, that is a nightmare scenario for Republicans given Judge Boasberg’s leadership of the court.

Despite Tillis’s flippancy, Trump would have no good options if Martin’s nomination is killed. Further, any choice Bondi makes is almost sure to draw legal challenges from Democrat-aligned groups.

These scenarios would require Martin to resign from his position or to run out of time, unlikely to happen unless Tillis wishes to block his nomination, sources inform Breitbart News.

If that happens, instead of the U.S. Attorney being determined by a Republican Senate, it could rest in the hands of a judicial system and a court district which has blocked Trump and his agenda at almost every turn. […]

Martin has been fighting hard for blanket pardons for all non-violent offenders from J6. Guess who has been fighting that idea harder than anyone else in the US Senate?  * Go ahead, GUESS.*

By the way, guess who had nothing to say in opposition to Robin Hayes getting a presidential pardon?

Despite all the crap that will be peddled to you from Raleigh and DC over the next year, Thom Tillis is not and never has been a conservative or even a friend to conservatives.  His top political guru worked with the late GOP maverick Richard Morgan to run a PAC aimed at purging conservatives from the NC House.

Tillis fanboy Michael Whatley boasted to left-wing reporters that he was the first state GOP chairman to condemn the January 6 protesters.  

Senator Ted Budd follows Tillis around like a puppy.  Never mind that MAGA conservatives carried him across the finish line. Never mind that an interview Tillis did with a drive-by captured Tillis on the phone giving strategy advice to Pat McCrory – who, at the time, was locked in a Senate primary battle with Mark Walker and Budd.

We survived six years of Kay Hagan.  Losing Tillis will not cost the GOP a US Senate majority.  Losing Thom Tillis and Phil Berger in 2026 will do wonders to rehab a North Carolina Republican Party currently choking to death on RINO detritus.