President Donald Trump called for a top official at the Federal Reserve to step down after she was accused by federal officials of mortgage fraud.  Trump said Wednesday that Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, should step down after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte called for the Justice Department to investigate her over alleged mortgage fraud.  “Cook must resign, now!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.   In an August 15 letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Pulte said that Cook falsely claimed primary residency at the same time for two homes she owned in Michigan and Georgia in order to get better interest rates.  Pulte wrote in his letter that Cook “has falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud under the criminal statute. This has included falsifying residence statuses for an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based residence and an Atlanta, Georgia-based property in order to potentially secure lower interest rates and more favorable loan terms.” In follow-up posts on X, Pulte targeted Cook over the allegations.  “How can this woman be in charge of interest rates if she is allegedly lying to help her own interest rates?” he wrote, adding in another, “Do not declare two principal residences in President Trump’s America. Mortgage fraud is a serious crime and must be prosecuted as such.” Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) responded to the criminal referral by demanding that an independent inspector general be established to investigate the Fed.  “The lack of accountability at the Federal Reserve under Chair Powell is out of control!” Scott posted on X. “This is exactly why we need to pass my bill to establish an independent inspector general at the Fed ASAP.” When reached for comment by The Daily Wire, a media relations assistant for the Federal Reserve said that “we don’t have anything to share at the moment, but will be back in touch asap.” Cook was appointed to the board of governors by President Joe Biden and is slated to stay on the board until 2038. She previously worked on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Trump has repeatedly battled with the Fed over interest rates, demanding that Chair Jerome Powell lower rates.  “Could somebody please inform Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell that he is hurting the Housing Industry, very badly? People can’t get a Mortgage because of him,” he posted on Truth Social on Tuesday. “There is no Inflation, and every sign is pointing to a major Rate Cut.”

Reporters and protesters flanked Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in Union Station on Thursday, peppering them with questions meant to criticize President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C. — and Vance quickly made it clear that he was not playing. The three were touring Union Station to observe the progress that has been made since the Trump administration began its efforts. WATCH: ?Happening Now: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary Hegseth, and Stephen Miller arrive at Union Station to view the progress of the clean up in Washington DC pic.twitter.com/ol9o61Z8bQ — William Martin (@VPCommsDir) August 20, 2025 Vance, according to the pool report, stopped to thank the National Guardsmen who were present, saying, “You guys bust your ass all day and we give you hamburgers — not a fair trade but we’re grateful for everything you do.” Speaking to the gathered reporters, Vance touted the success of their efforts thus far. “In the last nine days, we have seen a 35% crime decrease,” he said. WATCH: . @VP “If you look at what has happened in Washington, D.C. In the last nine days, WE HAVE SEEN A THIRTY-FIVE PERCENT CRIME DECREASE.” pic.twitter.com/68TN6hsEfh — DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) August 20, 2025 Once the three men opened the floor for questions, a reporter asked whether they’d be providing “evidence.” “Are you going to be releasing evidence of this?” she asked. Hegseth and Vance both appeared amused by the question. “Of what?” Vance asked. “That D.C. has a terrible crime problem? You just gotta look around. Obviously, D.C. has a terrible crime problem. The Department of Justice statistics back it up. The FBI statistics back it up. Just talk to a resident of this city, this beautiful, great American city.” “Don’t they deserve — we talk about human rights, we hear these people outside screaming, ‘Free D.C.!’ Let’s free D.C. from lawlessness. Let’s free Washington, D.C., from one of the highest murder rates in the entire world. Let’s free Washington, D.C., so that young families can walk around and feel safe and secure. That’s what we’re trying to free D.C. from.” Referencing the protesters outside, he added, “As Stephen said, it’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old, primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.”

The puppeteer behind the radical prosecutors who have enabled carnage in America’s major cities is no longer in her job after her own staff and the prosecutors she trained accused the white woman of being racist and authoritarian. Miriam Krinsky, executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, resigned on September 20, 2024, apparently as a result of a story in The Daily Wire that same day. The resignation has not been previously reported. After The Daily Wire asked about damning months-old emails in September, Fair and Just Prosecution spokesman Christopher Gray said, “I’ve had a stressful weekend since your email,” but did not say Krinsky had quit. But a newly obtained email shows that hours after the story was published, Krisny wrote an email to staff saying that “After eight years at FJP, I will be moving on.” “It has been heartening to see a table of 14 elected prosecutors FJP assembled in early 2017 grow to nearly 70 leaders nationwide — individuals I, and FJP, were privileged to have worked with,” she added of the Soros takeover of law enforcement. The story reported that in April 2024, Sherry Boston, the elected district attorney of DeKalb County, Georgia, accused Krinsky of racism for excluding her from a New York City event, adding that the group had “failed miserably” when it came to diversity. Krinsky replied by disparaging Boston and saying she was excluded from events because of merit, not race. Krinsky appeared to suggest that Boston, a black Democrat, had failed to advance “racial justice” by prosecuting too many crimes. That led to an uproar from Krinsky’s own staff and others, who began a campaign to oust her, only to face what they said was retaliation. Krinsky had led Fair and Just Prosecution since the group’s inception in 2017. A Daily Wire analysis of archived versions of the Fair and Just Prosecution website shows significant staff turnover. The group lost six of 16 employees in 2020, seven more in 2021, and nine of 22 in 2023. “The workplace culture under Miriam’s leadership is oppressively authoritarian,” disaffected employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Daily Wire in an email. “Miriam manipulates a predominantly young, minority staff — exploiting their inexperience and the existing racial dynamics within the organization to tighten her grip on power.” They said that despite Fair and Just Prosecution’s position that police should not be involved in situations that could be handled by social workers, “FJP, backed by Tides, are using law enforcement to retaliate against both current and former employees who have raised concerns about the organization’s practices. Some of these employees were wrongfully terminated and now face legal threats simply for attempting to do the right thing. Disturbingly, the organization has even orchestrated fake wellness checks as a means to weaponize the police—the same police they advocate should be defunded.” Spokesman Gray said, “Any personnel actions taken by the organization are in full compliance with applicable laws, our anti-harassment policies, and reflect our core values.” The Soros strategy to install radical progressives in district attorney positions, which in blue areas are often decided in quiet, low-turnout primary elections, relies on the idea that the billionaire would not need to influence entire legislatures to change laws if he could simply implant prosecutors who would ignore them. Mainstream Democrat prosecutors of the past viewed it as unethical to simply ignore entire classes of crimes. But when a prosecutor misbehaves, there is little that anyone can do. For a full year, for example, The Daily Wire has been seeking emails relevant to Fair and Just Prosecution from Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg — who previously prosecuted President Donald Trump — under public records laws. The office has failed to produce them, with an attorney instead sending a letter every 30 days saying that the records will be produced within the next 30 days. Last August, The Daily Wire reported how, after Soros spent $117 million since 2016 on reshaping America’s justice system, three in 10 Americans now live under a Soros prosecutor. The Fair and Just Prosecution group is the mechanism used to continue to control them after they are elected. Fair and Just Prosecution had the Soros-backed attorneys sign 33 pledges not to enforce specific laws — including election integrity measures and immigration laws — and attend more than 50 meetings or “convenings,” some of which were “mandatory.” FJP pressed prosecutors to let criminals off the hook if they are black, having them pledge to “reduc[e] racial disparities in case outcomes by at least 20%.” At the meetings, Soros prosecutors got talking points and marching orders. At one meeting, political consultants told the assembled prosecutors to frame ignoring property crime as “reprioritizing resources” to “solve more murders.” The consultants cited polling that showed this messaging was more popular than simply acknowledging that prosecutors were not prosecuting lesser crimes.

This week Scotland dropped a criminal lawsuit against a pro-life grandmother seeking peaceful conversation outside of a hospital. Glasgow native Rose Docherty, 75, was arrested and issued a warning in February 2025 for standing within 200 metres of the city’s Queen Elizabeth II Hospital with a sign that read “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” Docherty was arrested under Scotland’s new buffer zone law, which came into effect last September. The Abortion Services Bill makes it illegal to stand within 200 meters (656 feet) of a hospital for the purpose of “influencing, preventing access, or causing harassment” to women seeking abortions. Offenders can receive fines of up to £10,000. A State Department spokesman told the Telegraph that it applauds Scotland’s decision to drop the case. “The United States stands with all those fighting for free speech and religious liberty.” Docherty says she wasn’t violating the buffer zone. “Everyone has the right to a consensual conversation. I simply made myself available for a chat, should anybody like to approach me and speak about any matter on their mind. I didn’t breach the buffer zone – I didn’t harass, intimidate, or even seek to influence anyone. I simply stood there, available to speak with love and compassion.” After her arrest, Docherty was issued a formal warning that required her to admit wrongdoing and refrain from similar actions in the future. She refused to sign it. This week, a prosecutor for Glasgow notified Ms. Docherty by letter that “on the basis of the current information available to me, I have decided to take no further action… at this time.” The warning was withdrawn, and authorities agreed to return Docherty’s sign. The letter noted there was an “obligation on the prosecutor to keep cases under review,” meaning that charges could technically be reintroduced at a later date. Docherty and her legal counsel, ADF International, are celebrating the development as a win for free speech: “This is a victory not just for me, but for everyone in Scotland who believes we should be free to hold a peaceful conversation,” Docherty said. “I stood with love and compassion, ready to listen to anyone who wanted to talk. Criminalising kindness has no place in a free society.” ADF International Legal Counsel Lorcán Price said that “Rose’s case is a stark example of how ‘buffer zone’ laws can be weaponised to silence peaceful expression.” Scotland’s buffer zone law sparked controversy earlier this year when Vice President JD Vance accused the Scottish government of policing citizens’ thoughts in his address at the Munich Security Conference in February. “This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.” The government denied the accusation, saying the legislation did not target private prayer. The letters sent to residents did not mention prayer specifically, but warned them against performing offenses “in a private place…if they can be seen or heard within the Zone.” These could include putting up pro-life signs in your windows or holding a vigil or protest in your front yard, according to the BBC.

The former Los Angeles fire chief, who was fired by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass in February after the deadly Palisades fire raged for weeks, filed a legal claim against the city on Wednesday, accusing Bass of orchestrating a “defamation and retaliation campaign” to save her political image. Ex-fire chief Kristin Crowley said that Bass “orchestrated a campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” in an effort to move the spotlight off of herself, “while concealing the extent to which she undermined public safety,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Crowley’s legal claim noted that Bass was taking the brunt of the criticism over her decision to leave the country and attend a ceremony in Ghana when the fire first broke out. “As the Fire Chief, for nearly three years, I advocated for the proper funding, staffing and infrastructure upgrades to better support and protect our Firefighters, and by extension, our communities,” Crowley told the Times. “The lies, deceit, exaggerations and misrepresentations need to be addressed with the only thing that can refute them — the true facts.” California requires a legal claim to be filed before a lawsuit against a government entity, according to the Times. The rift between Crowley and Bass began after the former fire chief blamed the mayor’s $17.5 million cuts to the L.A. fire department’s budget, while Bass said that Crowley sent 1,000 firefighters home before the Pacific Palisades fire broke out, despite the drought conditions and high winds creating a high-risk fire environment. Twelve people died in the Pacific Palisades fire, and around 7,000 homes were destroyed. A month before the fire broke out, Crowley wrote in a memo that the budget cuts “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” In the legal claim, Crowley’s lawyers said that Bass “initially praised the department’s preparedness” after fire crews responded to the fire. “But as criticism mounted over her absence, Bass reversed course,” the legal claim added. “She sought to shift blame to Crowley, falsely stating that Bass was not aware of the nationally anticipated weather event, that Crowley sent 1,000 firefighters home who could have fought the blaze, and misrepresenting the department’s budget.” The claim also stated that the “LAFD did not have sufficient operating emergency vehicles to safely and effectively pre-deploy 1,000 (or anywhere near 1,000) additional firefighters on January 7.” Bass accused Crowley of allowing 40 available engines to sit “idle” before the fire erupted, but the ex-fire chief’s lawyers are pushing back against that claim too, saying that “the LAFD staffed all its front-line fire engines (including all the 40 engines that Bass later falsely stated sat ‘idle’).” Bass reportedly summoned Crowley to her office on January 10, and Crowley expected to be fired during that meeting. The fire chief, however, wasn’t ousted until February 21, six weeks after the Pacific Palisades fire was finally extinguished. During the January 10 meeting, Crowley’s lawyers claimed that Bass chewed her out for complaining about the fire department’s funding. Bass allegedly told her, “I don’t know why you had to do that; normally we are on the same page, and I don’t know why you had to say stuff to the media.” Bass also said that Crowley refused to conduct an after-action report after she was ordered to, but Crowley’s lawyers insisted that she was only asked about an after-action report and never instructed to produce one. During the back-and-forth with Bass, Crowley was defended by the 3,000-member L.A. firefighter union, which stated, “While we haven’t agreed on everything, you’ve been the only fire chief in decades to repeatedly demand adequate resources.”

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