Donald Trump's nominee to be one of the nation's most powerful prosecutors has apologized for praising a Nazy sympathizer. Ed Martin, who is nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and also holds the interim role claimed he was unaware of the views of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli"who he praised during an evening at Trump's New Jersey golf course. As well as being an avowed follower of Hitler, Hale-Cusanelli was a January 6 felon. "I denounce everything about what that guy said, everything about the way he talked, and all as I've now seen it," Martin said about Hale-Cusanelli in an interview Thursday with Forward. "At the time, I didn't know it." "I'm sorry," he added. Martin emceed an awards ceremony last August at the Bedminster club and described Hale-Cusanelli as "extraordinary."