Ed Martin, who is set to become the new pardon attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and lead Attorney General Pam Bondi’s government weaponization working group, shared a series of troubling revelations about the investigation into the “January 6 pipe bomber” during a recent interview with Tucker Carlson.
Martin, who previously served as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia—a role that oversees all general crimes in the district, including those involving federal officials, agencies, and campaign finance—discussed the case as part of a broader conversation on alleged corruption within federal law enforcement and the Justice Department.
He highlighted the unresolved nature of the January 6 pipe bomb incident, in which a suspected explosive device was discovered on a bench outside the Democratic National Committee Headquarters the night before the Capitol protests. Despite the seriousness of the event, the alleged perpetrator has never been identified, and the incident has drawn relatively little media attention.
Martin expressed his frustration with the slow progress of the investigation, even speculating chillingly that it might have been intentional.“The pipe bomber—as a prosecutor – I’ve got the pipe bomber case in my office,” Martin said, adding that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told him he had reassigned agents to the case. Martin observed that the investigation was initiated almost five weeks ago and will be much more comprehensive than the Biden DOJ’s inquiry.
The outgoing DC attorney further criticized the FBI’s previous handling of the case, alleging that basic investigative steps were overlooked. “They didn’t interview some of the people that you would have said, ‘That might be a suspect.’ They hadn’t interviewed him,” he said. The question becomes, ‘what’s happening here?’ Is it incompetence? It feels worse than incompetence.”
The senior Trump DOJ official went on to stress that it is important to conduct a thorough investigation and follow the facts wherever they may lead. “The only way forward is not to describe what I think of the motives but to expose over and over again what’s happened. If you expose what happened and the truth gets out, then accountability is possible.” Martin praised FBI Director Kash Patel and Bongino, while expressing frustration over the lack of prosecutions for those who abused government power.“You can’t arrest everybody in the first month, but you got to get this going,” he said.