President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was pulling his nominee to be the next U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin.

“He’s a terrific person, and he wasn’t getting the support from people that I thought,” Trump told reporters in the White House‘s Oval Office after announcing a trade deal with the United Kingdom.

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Trump added that Martin has “done a very good job” in an acting capacity since his inauguration.

“Crime is down 25% in D.C. during his period of time,” he said. “I’m very disappointed in that, but I have so many different things that I’m doing now with the trade. You know, one person I can only make, I can only lift that little phone so many times in a day.”

Martin’s nomination has been in doubt since Sen. Thom Tills (R-NC), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Trump earlier this week that he could not support him over his past statements regarding Jan. 6.

“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6, and that’s probably where most of the friction was,” Tillis said.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.