In the wake of the unprecedented removal of a Federal Reserve governor, President Donald Trump doubled down on his decision Tuesday, saying he is "always" ready for a legal fight after the ousted governor, Lisa Cook, signaled she would pursue legal action.
"She seems to have had an infraction and she can't have an infraction. And especially that infraction because she's in charge of, if you think about it, mortgages. We need people that are 100% above board, and it doesn't seem like she was," Trump said, referencing Cook's alleged misconduct in securing mortgage loans.
The Federal Reserve acknowledged Cook's potential legal action and said in a statement that the U.S. central bank will "abide by any court decision."
"Lisa Cook has indicated through her personal attorney that she will promptly challenge this action in court and seek a judicial decision that would confirm her ability to continue to fulfill her responsibilities as a Senate-confirmed member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System," a Federal Reserve spokesperson wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, commonly known as the Fed Board, is composed of seven members, or governors, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Cook’s potential removal from the Fed Board leaves a seat open on the panel that guides the nation's monetary policy. This gives Trump another opportunity to name someone closely aligned with his financial policy to the Fed.
When asked about replacing Cook on the Fed Board, Trump told reporters at the White House that he has some "very good people for that position."
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Fed needs to lower interest rates so Trump can refinance the national debt.
They don't want to because they profit from American misery.
Despite the name, it's not part of the government.
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Lol... go ahead sweetheart. You serve at the pleasure of the president and while some circuit judges might rule for you, the SC will slap your stupid ass back to the unemployment line.
[JustTheNews] The recently declassified memos show investigators found former Director Comey’s chief of staff used a private email account in furtherance of an "unauthorized disclosure" to news media.
Months after he refused to charge Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election for using a private, unauthorized server to transmit classified information, then-FBI Director James Comey's inner circle used personal email accounts to further a plan to make an "unauthorized disclosure" to journalists, newly declassified memos reveal.
When investigators in a criminal probe codenamed "TROPIC VORTEX" sought permission in 2019 to gain access to those private emails, federal prosecutors turned them down, according to the memos recently uncovered by current FBI Director Kash Patel and declassified for release to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington DC "issued a prosecutorial declination decision for TROPIC VORTEX," the FBI memo shutting down the probe stated.
The memos are the latest evidence that FBI agents on the front lines had serious concerns about illegal leaks and abuses of classified information allegedly involving major figures in Washington like Comey, now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Clinton. The efforts at investigating were repeatedly thwarted.
WITNESSES SAY COMEY AUTHORIZED LEAKS OF CLASSIFIED INFO
Just the News reported last week that agents gathered eyewitness evidence from Comey's top lieutenants, including former chief of staff James Rybicki and ex-FBI General Counsel James Baker, that the former FBI chief authorized the leak of classified information to reporters just before the 2016 election. No charges were ever filed.
That probe, which was handled by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, was centered on the leaks of classified information to The New York Times in October 2016, ahead of the November election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democratic Party nominee Clinton.
The memos don't identify the specific pieces of classified information that were leaked or whether Comey or anyone else was authorized to declassify them for the media.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told Just the News on Tuesday these newest revelations further validate President Donald Trump's decision to fire Comey back in 2017.
"“Time and again, the curtain has been pulled back to reveal Comey’s self-serving, ‘rules for thee and not for me’ attitude," Grassley said. "That’s no way to run an institution, especially not the top law enforcement agency in the nation.
"I stood by President Trump’s decision to dismiss Comey in 2017 and I support his move all the more with each passing day," he added.
The newest declassified memos detail evidence alleging that in March 2017, Rybicki forwarded a communication to his private email address in furtherance of an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to journalists directed by Comey.
Federal prosecutors originally issued a preservation order for the private email account based on the findings by the FBI’s Washington Field Office that the communication was in furtherance of a media leak. Ultimately, though, the prosecutors decided against pursuing “additional legal process” because the communication was itself not classified.
Comey previously denied during congressional testimony that he had ever been a source in news articles related to the FBI’s investigations into Trump and Clinton and further denied that he had ever approved of anyone else at the FBI being such a source. He has long denied any wrongdoing and insisted he has been politically attacked because he stood up to Trump.
He has not responded to repeated requestsfor comment from Just the News.
[GatewayPundit] AG Pam Bondi Sides With Biden Regime, Seeks Dismissal of Proud Boys’ J6 Lawsuit — Insists Claims of Political Persecution ’Lack Merit’ Despite Reams of Evidence Reported at The Gateway Pundit
Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to dismiss a $100 million lawsuit filed by the Proud Boys over the political persecution they suffered in the wake of the January 6th protests.
In a court submission on Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed, stating that "the malicious prosecution claim lacks merit; and the United States is not liable for punitive damages."
The filing undercuts the argument long supported by the Trump administration that those who were imprisoned following the January 6th attacks were the victims of political persecution.
The suit was filed in June by Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader, along with Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola.
Their lawsuit argues that their prosecutions were "an egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump, by any and all means necessary, legal, or illegal."
Despite President Trump’s decision to offer an unconditional pardon to all involved, it appears that Pam Bondi and the Justice Department do not agree that they were victims of the Biden regime.
The Gateway Pundit was one of a few media outlets that led the way in reporting on the extensive abuse and even torture of January 6th protesters and their families, which was carried out in a systematic campaign of political persecution by Joe Biden and his Democratic allies in the Department of Justice.
Of course, this ruling comes as a shock to those who followed the Proud Boys "trial of the century" coverage at The Gateway Pundit.
The US Government set up the Proud Boys with bogus charges, used a witness who lied numerous times under oath to save his skin, and the feds even planted evidence in the Proud Boys’ social media hangout.
In their filing, the DOJ claimed that plaintiffs had failed to show any evidence that investigators or prosecutors "relied on knowingly false or fabricated evidence to initiate" their cases.
"It defies ’judicial experience and common sense’ to believe that Plaintiffs cannot make more specific allegations at this stage about what evidence was false, fabricated, or wrongfully withheld as part of their prosecution," they wrote.
The DOJ also emphasized that a federal court had already reviewed the charges at detention hearings and determined that the "weight of the evidence is strong."
Prosecutors pointed to "incontrovertible photo evidence of Nordean, Biggs, and Rehl inside the Capitol building," material used "to support their arrests and detentions."
"And while Tarrio was not at the Capitol on that day and the district court found there was no ’smoking gun,’ the court considered Tarrio’s contrary arguments and still found the evidence of his involvement in a seditious conspiracy to be ’very strong.’"
It will now be up to a federal judge to determine whether the lawsuit can move forward. How the hell is this Epstein cover up moron helping our nation? Question is, does the President have the cajones to get rid of her or will he make the tragic error that he made with Barr and Co?
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There is strong evidence of Tarrio’s participation in a conspiracy that didn’t exist. Even if this lawsuit is dismissed, it will just be refiled as once the Grand Conspiracy case gets to J6. Bondi will end up with an internal contradiction.
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Before jumping all over Bondi, note the grounds on which she seeks to dismiss the case *as filed*. A sloppy ill-crafted case like this could end up sabotaging the big ones we suspect are coming.
[NYPOST] A judge ordered the Utah legislature on Monday to redraw its congressional maps in time for next year's midterm elections, finding the state legislature had unlawfully gerrymandered its districts in favor of Republicans.
Judge Dianna Gibson said in a 76-page order that the legislature must pass a ''remedial congressional map'' by the end of September. State politicians have already signaled they plan to appeal, meaning the case is likely headed for the Utah Supreme Court and possibly the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gibson's order comes after a fight between two of the country's largest states, Texas and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, that thrust gerrymandering into the national spotlight.
The lawsuit in Utah arose from redistricting changes that began in 2018.
Utah voters passed Proposition 4, also known as the ''Better Boundaries'' initiative, that year to reform the redistricting process and create an independent commission to oversee it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
