Trump has no legal authority to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed. He wants to take it over but it must remain independent. Stay strong, Ms. Cook.
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It might have been good for Jeffries to mention that Littlehands was exceeding his remit.
aug 26, 2025, 9:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Strongly worded letters will surely do the job this time...
aug 26, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
You make a good point. Jeffries making a race issue out of it undermines it. It's like a gag reflex with too many Dems. He must be much less concerned with the way Trump goes after Powell.
aug 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Dumpy Donny Purple Hands is ALWAYS intimidated by strong, SMART women. Fight back Dr. Cook.
aug 27, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree, stay strong! She is black. Seems to be a theme for the 🍊🍕💩 !
aug 28, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
Lisa Cook is a means to install a trump employee.
aug 26, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
A Black woman with a doctorate, in a powerful position, cannot be allowed to stand in a Trump administration.
aug 26, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
And... cue strongly worded letter. Thanks. How about going to the streets of DC and challenging those ice criminals.
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Hakeem should speak to politicizing the Fed and the risk to the economy rather than race. This is why my Democratic party is having brand trouble.
aug 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Do not allow the Felon in Chief to intimidate you into resigning! DonOld has no authority over you and CANNOT LEGALLY FIRE YOU! STAY STRONG!!
aug 26, 2025, 9:26 pm • 3 0 • view
When are we going to accuse Trump of Pedophilia and ask for his resignation? Does anyone have proof of Trump's past Pedophilia?
aug 26, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually, she has done THREE things wrong: She is (a) a BLACK, (b) WOMAN in a (c) POSITION OF POWER. That is enough for the Orange Shitweasel to poop his pants. Twice.
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
This is good but I wish there was more defense of Lisa Cook. I know Lisa Cook and she would never, ever commit mortgage fraud. Anyone can make a mistake on a form but that is not fraud. What Donald Trump has done is fraud. For a crime they need intent. She made a mistake, correct it, pay penalty.
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 6 0 • view
intent isn't actually needed here, but the bigger issue is granting their claim about what she declared - it's on them to prove the case
aug 26, 2025, 9:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you. I thought I heard that from lawyers on TV, go figure. What would be the typical penalty for claiming two mortgages as primary? It seems to me when this was discovered, if it was just an innocent mistake, then just correct it and pay the difference in interest. She's a smart women. Hard to
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
believe she'd commit fraud just to save a bit of interest. Real fraud is being committed every day in the $billions right in front of our eyes by Trump and his goons. Regardless, I'm glad she is fighting back and I wish her well. If Donnie can wish a child rapist well then I'm happy to wish PHD econ
aug 26, 2025, 9:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Also worth noting here - at the time there probably wouldn’t have been a pricing adjustment, so she would have been doing it for no reason
aug 26, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
thanks for your insight
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
In my experience, absent meaningful loss the lender would usually just require the borrower to refinance into an appropriate mortgage. That can be hard in some instances, but probably wouldn’t have been here I see no reason to believe the lenders weren’t fully aware of the situation
aug 26, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
again thanks
aug 27, 2025, 12:48 am • 2 0 • view
So... Trump is complaining that Cook should be fired due to suspected real estate transactions? Trump the developer who breaks real estate rules as a regular business practice? Here are a select few of his: ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...
aug 26, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
This is simple. 47's trying to force Jerome Powell to remove her. When Powell rightly refuses, 47 will assert that Powell's insubordination gives him cause to be fired.
aug 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
34 Counts of Fraud. A Convicted Felon in the White House.
aug 26, 2025, 9:25 pm • 3 0 • view
It's just the continuating manifestation of Trump's lifelong racism.
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, no! Another strongly worded letter! C’mon, Dems-do SOMETHING!
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps every mortgage on every pulte home needs to be reviewed? . . .
aug 28, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Under which branch of government does the Fed operate? Is it the executive branch? Or is it outside the constitutional makeup of our government?
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 9:06 pm • 3 1 • view
You're fired, Trump bsky.app/profile/late...
aug 26, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately, they can simply say someone is a "terrorist" or "illegal" and then put them in a camp.
aug 26, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah im sure hakeem will fix it. stern letters, wagging shame fingers and a pingpong paddle to fight a coup
aug 26, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, that is better than nothing, Hakeem. Am I wrong to want more though?
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
If trump has no legal authority to fire Ms. Cook or anyone else at the Fed, can’t we throw some kind of legal blanket over them and try to stop the bullying and pressure? Is that not possible?
aug 26, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Just what she needs - flaccid lip service from a spineless coward.
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
This regime intentionally targets and persecutes millions who have done nothing wrong. They include Black women in senior government positions. Trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people. Immigrants. Hispanics. People with brown skin. Writers, reporters, and historians who tell the truth.
aug 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 2 • view
If he can take over the Fed like other bodies, economic chaos will ensue. The Fed's caution is what keeps the economy steady. Trump would be like a bull in a china shop.
aug 27, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
💪 Lisa Cook 💪
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Hakeem-please call Gavin at your earliest convenience. You need some coaching. We are tired of wordy memorandums.
aug 26, 2025, 11:37 pm • 1 0 • view
This terrifying letter must be striking at the very souls of the administration. I can imagine their sheer horror at receiving it. You are no leader, Hakeem; leaders can recognise the threat and act accordingly. You simply wander on as if nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Wake up.
aug 26, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
For the crime of not being a white male sycophant.
aug 26, 2025, 8:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Maybe if Jeffries would do his job instead of being spineless opposition and running away to push a book deal every damn time we wouldn't be here.
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Great Hakeem…thanks for this. Now…WHAT. THE. FUCK. ARE. YOU. DOING. ABOUT. IT?????
aug 26, 2025, 9:01 pm • 9 0 • view
He’s patting himself on the back right now. Probably putting this example of his brave heroism into a book. What a fighter, eh? A man who has a staffer write some words out for him. Wow! Bravery… /s
aug 26, 2025, 9:11 pm • 4 0 • view
He is trying, I am sure. What do you suggest as steps he could be doing (descriptive as possible), that he is not already trying? Legal process, or gov norms, will work. I think this is up to you, citizens, to take action. Pick up a sign, get a bullhorn and get out there
aug 26, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I was hoping to learn more about your viewpoint.
aug 28, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Quit with the platitudes. Start cursing. Bring brass knuckles and broken beer bottles to the fight. Get fucking dirty. I mean D.I.R.T.Y. Hire muckrakers. Turn Mike Johnson’s life upside down…living hell shit. He’s a deviant filth fly, get the goods and bury him and his cohorts alive. Go medieval.
aug 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
What are WE doing about it?
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
Voting for the people who say they’ll move this country away from monsters like Trump, yet they approve heinous nominees to cabinet positions and SCOTUS appts anyway. Hakeem Jeffries needs to declare all our war against MAGA…hair-pulling, biting, brass knuckles, broken bottles, yet we get this.
aug 27, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Just has to wait out his permanent descent into the ground, shouldn't be too long now...
aug 27, 2025, 3:55 am • 1 0 • view
OMG! A tersely worded letter! I'm sure that's going to bring pause to the Orange Buffoon & cause him to reverse his decision. Take the fucking gloves off! Time to fight dirtier than they are!
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Lisa Cook has more courage than all of Congress, at the very least.
aug 26, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump will have tough legal case. 1. His comments about Fed establish alleged fraud to be a "pretext" for his real reason for getting rid of her (to exert control over fed decisions). 2. Even if there is evidence of fraud, he has not fired govt officials that have engaged in similar conduct.
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Watching from outside of the USA, and I really can't understand how Americans let it get this far. It will be a hard fight to try to fix all of Trump's mess.
aug 26, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Hakeem is so brave and so strong writing those powerful letters!!!
aug 26, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
harassment describe behaviors and actions that are persistently annoying, threatening, or abusive, causing distress or harm to another person. Terms like torment, persecution, molestation, threats, insults, slurs, and persistent criticism, can be used in various contexts to describe situations. SUE!
aug 27, 2025, 7:08 am • 1 0 • view
He’s trying to hobble the rest of the pillars. He’s relentless. Or his goon boys are. Exhausting
aug 26, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
What can anyone do about it?
aug 26, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
She has more brains in her pinky than #pedotrump and his entire regime.
aug 26, 2025, 8:49 pm • 10 0 • view
SINCE WHEN DOES TRUMP RESPECT LEGAL AUTHORITY???
aug 26, 2025, 8:50 pm • 5 0 • view
I bet Jeffries is crafting a tersely worded letter as we speak!
aug 26, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump had no legal authority to conspire to subvert the 2020 election; after doing so, he had no legal authority to stand for elected office again. And yet here we are. Perhaps a lone hero is the only way to reset the rule of law...
aug 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 1 • view
Never stopped him before
aug 26, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
v important for the markets & perception of U.S. for Fed to remain independent astonishing that so few (like zero) allegedly pro-business Republicans speak out on this. 😐
aug 26, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
William J. Pulte, The Current Director Of The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Is Trump's Cabinet Member Sycophant Who's Behind The Fishing 🎣 For NON-TRUMP SYCOPHANTS At The Federal Reserve. Ms. Cook Was Political Fodder For F47 To Go After. SHAMEFUL WEAK OVERREACTING BY THE IDIOT-IN-CHIEF!👎🤮
aug 27, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
At Munich, Neville Chamberlain acted on the basis of one primary miscoception: that Hitler's goals were limited. We now have at least three leaders with unlimited goals: Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump. Action now against the three must proceed with 5his understanding.
aug 26, 2025, 8:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Wow, Hakeem. Another mewling, toothless post from you. Please save the digital ink, you're just embarrassing yourself. When will we get someone with fire in their belly in your position! Soon, hopefully. While we still have a country left.
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember McConnell in 2017. Slightly edited so as to fit the tune Whatever Lola Wants from Damm Yankeys. Whatever that man wants We oppose Cause that thing in the White house is Black No he's not white. And that fits Trump and in fact all the GOP as well.
aug 27, 2025, 11:16 am • 1 0 • view
Trump proves, on a daily basis, that he is the person who should be removed from his executive position. Stay strong Ms. Cook. Fight Tyranny in any form.
aug 28, 2025, 2:39 pm • 2 0 • view
What about Trump's 34 felony convictions for lying and cheating on scores of legal loan documents. Shouldn't he resign?
aug 26, 2025, 8:51 pm • 13 0 • view
Meanwhile in the digital currency and crypto world the Trumplethinskins are up to something:
aug 26, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
WHAT GEORGE SAYS!!!!
aug 27, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
And what about the irony of "mortgage fraud" - from DJT!!!
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 7 0 • view
Trump to Pulte..."dig deep & find me anything because black woman in positions of power scare me & make my tiny penis turtle up"...trying to fire her for fraud by the the worst habitual line stepper & top notch grifter alive is the epitome of irony...keep up the resistance @crockett.house.gov
aug 26, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
DEI = Deranged Egit Ignoble
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
The Supreme Court will back Trump. They always do. My question is why the f*** is Hakeem Jeffries spending all his time making whiny meme slogans instead of DOING something.
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Seems like this real estate fraud involving residence in different states is a common crime among elected officials. If she committed this crime she should step down.
aug 27, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm sure his actions have nothing to do with the fact she is a woman. Or that she is black. Or that she is indeed a black woman. Definitely none of those things.
aug 26, 2025, 9:22 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s George Takei defending the independence of the Federal Reserve, saying Trump can’t legally remove Lisa Cook from her role there. He’s urging her to stand firm against political pressure to control the institution.
aug 26, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Another feckless missive from do-nothing @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Trump is trying to remove her because she is black and because he’s a racist. Dumbass “leadership” should call it what is is.
aug 26, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Fed. Governor Cook is slandered in public, facing calls for removal on unproven allegations, while a court-proven fraudster is still allowed to handpick Fed governors. We’ve sunk into a cesspool where hypocrisy isn’t just political sewage, it’s official open air policy. And wow, does it stink. 🦨🦨🦨
aug 28, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
CALLING JAKE FUCKING TAPPER!!
aug 26, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view