It Was the F***ing Aroundest of Times, It Was the Finding Outtest of Times

Mortgage Fraudster and Apparently Unfirable Proud Black Woman Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit against Trump, asking a federal judge to, get this, issue an injunction forbidding him from firing her.

An injunction from a lowly district court judge telling the president he was not allowed to use his presidential powers...? Why, I never thought I'd see the day.

This is a tricky case... except it's not that tricky. The Fed system is supposedly "independent" but the problem with that is that it's actually unconstitutional to have an "executive" branch department that is independent of the Chief Executive. "The power of the Executive shall be vested in a President," the Constitution says. All of the power. There is no such thing as an executive branch department who's power does not ultimately derive from the President himself.

The law says that Trump cannot fire Fed staffers, except in specific circumstances, such as... "For cause."

Trump's notice of termination stated that he had cause. The cause is 'cause she committed mortgage fraud.

It's absurd for Lisa Cook, who is an official with the nation's bank and who also provably committed mortgage fraud and victimized the federal government itself, to claim that the president lacks "cause" to fire her.

But that's what she's claiming. She is a Proud Black Woman and that means you're not allowed to fire her, ever, for any reason, bigot.

And as for that provable mortgage fraud...?

Her lawsuit is 24 pages and doesn't address it. She never denies that she committed mortgage fraud.

But she would like a liberal judge to enjoin the president from firing her.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is suing to keep her job on the board, which helps set interest rates, after President Donald Trump said he was removing her from her role earlier this week.

Cook's lawsuit, filed Thursday morning in federal court in Washington, DC, asks for a judge to rule that Trump's attempt to remove her is unlawful and that she remains an active member of the Federal Reserve.

A hearing on her request for a temporary restraining order has been scheduled for 10 a.m. ET on Friday in front of Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

Cook's lawsuit sets the stage for what could be a high-stakes legal battle with major implications for the Fed and the power of the presidency, even as Trump moves to consolidate his hold over parts of the government once considered sacrosanct and free from political influence.

"Without emergency relief, defendants are now likely to allow an unexpired vacancy to occur for which President Trump has indicated he is ready to fill," Cook's lawyers wrote in their request.

The White House, however, said that Trump's firing of cook was lawful.

"The President determined there was cause to remove a governor who was credibly accused of lying in financial documents from a highly sensitive position overseeing financial institutions," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement on Thursday. "The removal of a governor for cause improves the Federal Reserve Board's accountability and credibility for both the markets and American people."

Her lawyer is Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abbie Lowell. Who's also representing Adam Schiff in his own mortgage fraud prosecution and various other Regime Criminals.

James Fishback
@j_fishback

Lisa Cook took out 2 mortgages on 2 homes in 2 states in the same 2 week period--claiming both were her "primary residence." That was a big fat lie. It's called mortgage fraud. Even the Federal Reserve warned in a 2023 research report that this type of mortgage fraud threatens the U.S. housing market.

Specifically, it warned that the whole idea of a primary residence getting a more favorable -- i.e., subsidized -- mortgage rate is that someone is unlikely to default on mortgage payments for the home she actually lives in. A second home you might default on, but the home you live in? You'll scramble to make those payments.

But if she's lying -- if she doesn't live there at all, but just claims she does on a form -- then the odds of a default are much, much higher, and she has avoided having this risk priced in to her mortgage rate through deception.

The Fed report warned further that people engaging in this kind of mortgage fraud are speculating in the real estate market and therefore will engage in "strategic defaults" -- I think they mean, they won't default when they can't pay, they'll default just when it's in their financial interests to default.

And a Fed governor engaged in this fraud!

If you were wondering "But where is Erick Erickson to scold us and take the leftwing position so that he can get invited on to a leftwing media platform who will say 'even conservatives support Lisa Cook," don't even worry about it mate, I've got you covered.

Erick Erickson @EWErickson

This groupthink on the right on the Fed is sort of what I was getting at with the bad ideas on the right starting to fester that will eventually alienate them from voters, just as the left did. If you really think an accusation should be enough to cost someone their job, you're no better than the left.

It's not just "an accusation." She signed two forms within two weeks claiming two different properties were her primary residence. This is a lie on its face, unless you want to posit that maybe she's so stupid she done forgot the home mortgage she just signed two weeks ago.

This is a crime on its face, and only a very persuasive affirmative defense -- "I was misled by my lawyer!" -- could even trick a juror into letting her off.

But she's offered none. She refuses to explain the lie. In her lawsuit against Trump, she doesn't even mention the reason for her firing, and does not even deny that she committed mortgage fraud. She does not deny the very cause for firing that Trump states as his justification for the firing.

That means she did it.

But I guess Erick Erickson wants some attention, maybe he wants to get on Pierce Morgan or something, so he's going to lecture conservatives again.

But there's more!

Likewise, if you want to resurrect the fighting words doctrine, good luck speaking on college campuses without getting yourself arrested.

The herd mentality on social media on the left and right turns poisonous, and everyone starts thinking short-term with no thought to the long-term problems.

And, by the way, I think the Federal Reserve is unconstitutionally structured, but the Supreme Court says otherwise, and their opinion, not mine or yours, is what matters.

Shut the fuck up, NeverTrump grifter.

Meanwhile, the former head of the CDC has been fired. I heard that at first she threatened to quit over RFKJr.'s plan to stop recommending the covid vaccine for everyone. If that's the case, he called her bluff.

But then she said, "wait, I was just bluffing" and insisted that she was keeping her job.

The White House and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were engaged in a tense standoff on Thursday after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to fire the director, Susan Monarez, and multiple high-ranking agency officials resigned.

The White House said that she had been dismissed. But her lawyers, who said she had chosen "protecting the public over serving a political agenda," insisted that she remained C.D.C. director until President Trump fired her personally.

The dispute now appears to be in the hands of Mr. Trump, who has not weighed in publicly. A spokesman for the White House did not respond to an inquiry about whether the president would fire Dr. Monarez.

The Republican-led Senate voted only last month to confirm her; she is the first C.D.C. director to be subject to Senate confirmation. As such, she works at the pleasure of the president, not Mr. Kennedy.

Senators from both parties expressed dismay at the events unfolding at the C.D.C.
The chairman of the Senate health committee, Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and physician who voted for Mr. Kennedy, said on social media late Wednesday that the "high profile departures will require oversight" by his panel. He did not elaborate.

Of course, Cassidy. Worse than Lisa Murkowski. Why, Louisiana? Why?

Apparently Cassidy blocked Trump's first pick for head of the CDC, and only supported this one if RFKJr. agreed to essentially let Cassidy, illegally, run the CDC.

Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and ranking member of the panel, called for a hearing with Mr. Kennedy and Dr. Monarez and said the attempt to fire her was "outrageous."

There was a mass walkout of CDC employees to protest her firing and to insist that people need to be vaccinated against their will, forever.

Fire them. Fire them all.

Meanwhile, another very important CDC official resigned. The other skanks walked out with "him."

DrDemetre @dr_demetre

My resignation letter from CDC.

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.

This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.

While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people. This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.

I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public's health. The recent change in the adult and children's immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.

...

Sincerely,

Demetre C. Daskalakis MD MPH (he/his/him)

he/his/him. Perfect.

You know this guy.

This is the guy who wanted Christians chased out of churches during covid, but refused to tell his pervert gay constituents to stop having anonymous gangbang sex during the monkeypox epidemic, because he supports "joy."

Just not the joy of communion with God, that's all. But having a 100 stranger piss-party gangbang? That's joy that needs protecting.

Oh, and he's a Satanic S&M bondage freak, too.

He says that, despite constantly wearing upside-down pentagrams -- a very well-known symbol of Satanism -- he says "I'm certainly not a Satanist." Yeah, I'm sure. Just like the guys with swastika tattoos always say at their parole board hearings -- "It's not a swastika, it's an Indian luck charm."

No, seriously, that's exactly what the Gay Advocate argues:

The harness has been making a splash in the fashion world for more than a year now. Also, the pentagram (or really a pentacle, since it has a circle around it) has been around for thousands of years, even predating Christianity.

And before Nazism the swastika really was an Indian luck charm. But what has it been used for since 1936?

The HIV prevention specialist has tattoos including other iconography, including a more Christian-oriented one. Maybe it's all about balance?

Balance between Christ and Satan? Perfect.

I'm actually shocked he was still working for the government. Someone at Trump HQ dropped the ball.

Tangentially related: I mentioned Lisa Murkowski.

I have good news! Great news, in fact!

Two good things: 1, he's popular, and 2, he's actually a Republican who supports Republican policies.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is primed to announce a 2028 run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Republican legislator who repeatedly has clashed with President Donald Trump, according to several sources familiar with the situation or close to the governor.

"He's not going to quit his term," a top source close to Dunleavy who used to work with him in Juneau, Alaska, told Fox News Digital of the governor's long-term plans. The next Senate race in the Last Frontier falls in 2026 for incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.

The last governor to resign to run for higher office -- 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- "never recovered," the source said.

Dunleavy "cares deeply about and wants Alaska to succeed," the source said, adding the governor recently quipped that he can't understand why people would want to "live with all this concrete" in Washington and not in the verdant Arctic as one reason the Pennsylvania-born Republican likes to otherwise avoid the East Coast.

"But he knows that (being in Washington) is the only way to get things done," the source said, adding that Dunleavy was the second governor to endorse Trump in 2016 and that a top member of the White House staff said he visits more than any other governor despite a 3,500-mile trek.

"He's not about an ego and pushing himself in front of the cameras. He gets stuff done. ... He's not like, 'Please put me on this committee' or 'I have to attend this ball'. He doesn't like those types of things," the source added.

"Trump has talked to him before about running and wants him to run."

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