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Trump Urges Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Resign Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations

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Friday, August 22, 2025 4:34 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-urges-fed-governor-lisa-120000776.html

Trump Urges Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Resign Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations

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Friday, August 22, 2025 4:38 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Oh... You're not going to resign, huh? You're a tough, independent, girl-boss wahaman who don't need no man, are you?

Oops. You shouldn't have rigged the system in your favor for better loan terms on that house you really couldn't afford.

Now you're getting fired and we're going to ruin your life too.

Oops.

Have a nice day, Karen.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025 5:47 PM

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Perpetrating Felony Mortgage Fraud, but then refusing to reduce Interest Rates, while watching other Deep State Libtard Deadwood get swept out of office.

She is no brain surgeon.

But, hey - she lasted for 7 months past her Due Date.
She was scheduled to be lodged in the position until 2038.



In unrelated news, Jerome Powell has murmured that he is interested in lowering interest rates.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025 7:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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She is no brain surgeon.



Lisa rode the shortest bus you've ever seen to prep school.

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Friday, August 29, 2025 2:04 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


‘Three strikes:’ Mortgage regulator flags third issue in Lisa Cook’s mortgage documents

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/29/three-strikes-mortgag
e-regulator-flags-third-issue-lisa-cooks
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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte alleges Ms. Cook took out a 15-year loan on a condominium in Cambridge and listed it as a second home. Months later, she documented rental income from the condo and described it as a rental/investment property, according to Mr. Pulte’s criminal referral to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Second homes often receive more favorable loan terms than investment properties, which are viewed as riskier.



Uh oh....

Stupid, fat, DEI-Hire black bitch is in some serious trouble now.

Womp. Womp.



PS: It's not just the more favorable loan terms, but she was also benefiting by paying cheaper property taxes than those with rental properties would pay, meaning she was fucking over all of the other taxpayers in the district too.

Not a great look for somebody high profile in the FED.

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Friday, August 29, 2025 8:23 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-urges-fed-governor-lisa-120000776.html

Trump Urges Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Resign Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations





And we all know Trump knows lots about Mortgage Fraud.

too funny

T


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Friday, August 29, 2025 9:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-urges-fed-governor-lisa-120000776.html

Trump Urges Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Resign Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations





And we all know Trump knows lots about Mortgage Fraud.

too funny



Oh. You mean that half-billion dollar case that just got thrown out like I told you it would from day one, faggot?

Keep on losing, idiot.

You're so fucking dumb.

Get that faggy shit out of your posts. Nobody wants to have to reformat stuff because you're an inconsiderate fuckwit.


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Friday, August 29, 2025 10:09 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Uh oh... It gets even worse for you fags...

She's got another illegal mortgage...

Cook Scrutiny Builds After Criminal Referral Over Third Mortgage

https://archive.is/sapDG#selection-1203.0-1222.0



Why are all of you Democrats criminals? Why are you all scammers getting rich off of American Taxpayers AFTER you get into politics?


We're going to get to the bottom of it and put you all in prison where you belong.

How's that sound?




P.S. Don't you go dying on us, Nancy Pelosi. We're coming for you and your husband soon once we take out the trash.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 2:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Lisa Cook Has Been Fired

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/09/04/lisa_cook_has_be
en_fired_153244.html



Now it looks as though her antics are making the FED look bad and further doing massive damage to the Democratic Party, specifically under Joe Biden*'s leadership.

They all knew she committed this fraud when they still had an opportunity to pick literally anyone else for the position. She knew it. She admitted it to Joe Biden* before they confirmed her. But they confirmed her anyway because she's a pure DEI hire. And not only that, but with a 49-49 senate split, Kamala Harris has her name on it as the tie-breaking vote too.


Her name appears to be apropos. Democrats gettin' cooked by Lisa Cook.



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Thursday, September 4, 2025 2:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Cook’s mortgage fraud allegation could lead to Fed restructuring

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/2/editorial-cooks-mortga
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President Biden made a big mistake when he nominated Lisa D. Cook to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She was fired last week over allegations of financial hanky-panky, offering the president an opportunity to roll back liberal idealism.

Mr. Biden selected Ms. Cook in 2022 because she, like many of his other choices, “made history” as the first Black woman on the seven-member board. Now, she makes history as the first Fed governor removed for cause. Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, issued a criminal referral claiming Ms. Cook fibbed on at least three mortgage applications.

According to Mr. Pulte’s most recent accusation, Ms. Cook applied for a second-home mortgage on a condo in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then turned around and listed the property as a rental on her official ethics disclosures.

...

President Trump can and should reassert the president’s constitutional authority over this supposedly independent board by appointing two new governors. The Fed was created in 1913 in a way that insulates it from having to ask Congress for its funding or from taking direction from the White House. The Government Accountability Office isn’t even allowed to audit the Fed’s dealings.

No provision in the Constitution permits the creation of a federal fiefdom that sits outside the three branches of government. President Wilson didn’t care about such technicalities, and he didn’t have the support to pass a proper constitutional amendment. Democrats rammed his proposal through Congress anyway on a near party-line vote.

Wilson’s central bank was supposed to steer the nation away from financial crises and end the curse of inflation, but it has failed spectacularly on both counts. Since the first time a Roman emperor realized he could swindle the public by diluting the amount of gold and silver in the coins, government meddling in monetary matters has never helped ordinary citizens.

The Fed needs reforming, and the president has a unique opportunity to reshape its operations if he can survive the legal challenge. Ms. Cook hopes a Democratic-appointed federal court judge will preserve her prestigious title and salary, but her case is weak. Under the statute, governors can be removed “for cause.”

If Mr. Pulte’s allegations are correct, her ouster is as legitimate as it gets.



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Thursday, September 4, 2025 5:06 PM

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If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 5:07 PM

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If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.



Yeah...

Not a fan of Bondi at all, myself.

She needs to go.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 5:31 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.

Yeah...

Not a fan of Bondi at all, myself.

She needs to go.

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I've never been a fan of blondes, myself. Bit of an overdose in D.C. this year.

but, compared to the slew of recent AGs we have suffered under, this is one I can deal with.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 5:47 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.

Yeah...

Not a fan of Bondi at all, myself.

She needs to go.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I've never been a fan of blondes, myself. Bit of an overdose in D.C. this year.



If you want to go there though, I'd say we've got a problem with non-blonde Kristi Noem.

I was just telling my old man she needs to stop caking her face with a pound of makup and trying to look like a 20 year old on Instagram. And who's she fooling with those gross lip injections anyway?

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but, compared to the slew of recent AGs we have suffered under, this is one I can deal with.



Agreed.

I just lost any and all respect for her after she made a big deal about having all the Epstein files on her desk, and then releasing those binders to a bunch of right-wing dipshit political influencers with noting inside but highly redacted versions of documents that were all leaked years ago.

This is the one single issue that TDS sufferers like Ted can glom onto right now, and it's all Pam Bondi's fault.

Now... maybe she was forced into that position because I'm right and Trump is either sitting on that info until right before the midterm or 2028 elections and/or is currently using that info to blackmail other world leaders in these trade agreements right now, but regardless...

She is ballast that needs to be cut. She should resign and we can just use this to replace her with somebody better.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 7:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into Fed’s Cook, Issues Subpoenas

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lisa-cook-justice-department-probe
-e7e801a6?st=kfCqdC



The Democratic Party's Theme Song in 2025, as well as Ted and Second's...




Lyrics:

Stare into nothingness
In the empty hearts abode
Pale figures, the mirrors show
Our souls have turned to stone
Our hearts have lost their glow
In a paradise useless
In reality worthless
Don't let your dying dreams escape
Hold hard that precious way
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive
To stay alive


Very simple song that even an illiterate idiot like Ted can follow.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 8:35 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.

Yeah...

Not a fan of Bondi at all, myself.

She needs to go.

I've never been a fan of blondes, myself. Bit of an overdose in D.C. this year.

If you want to go there though, I'd say we've got a problem with non-blonde Kristi Noem.
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but, compared to the slew of recent AGs we have suffered under, this is one I can deal with.

Agreed.

I just lost any and all respect for her after she made a big deal about having all the Epstein files on her desk, and then releasing those binders to a bunch of right-wing dipshit political influencers with noting inside but highly redacted versions of documents that were all leaked years ago.

This is the one single issue that TDS sufferers like Ted can glom onto right now, and it's all Pam Bondi's fault.

Now... maybe she was forced into that position because I'm right and Trump is either sitting on that info until right before the midterm or 2028 elections and/or is currently using that info to blackmail other world leaders in these trade agreements right now, but regardless...

She is ballast that needs to be cut. She should resign and we can just use this to replace her with somebody better.

I give her a pass, for now, on Epstein. She was new in the job, and, like Trump the first time around, may have assume the Libtards running the shitshow were not evil a-holes. She may have conjured there were at least a few competent people in the agencies.
Libtards obfuscating and covering up, whitewashing everything for the past decade is not something I lay at her feet. She may have been told things from people who were supposed to know, beneath her. What she has done in such a short time is monumental, and I could not conjure there would not be hiccups and stumbles along the way. If there was nothing for Libtards to hide with Epstein, they had 4 years to uncover the truth anyhow. Now it may be as unfathomable as JFK.


Regarding cutting her loose. Or, as Tedtard sez, cut her lose.
I was dismayed when Trump ditched Gen Mike Flynn, which he eventually found out he screwed up, he stabbed him in the back while pulling the rug out from under him, just as the minions of Deep State wanted him to. Trump was too rash then.
Maybe he is more measured now, and not as gullible. He has learned to keep his kids out of the fray, out of the target zone.
Maybe she eventually needs to be cut, I'm not convinced yet. But for now, I prefer there is some stability in important roles in D.C. If she was another Merritless Garland, then I agree she should be shot on sight - but she clearly is not in that camp, and she is doing far more than anybody else in that job in decades.

I prefer she is not axed until in the job at least a year - unless she has been copying Gov Cook, or Cameltoe Harris.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025 9:03 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If Bondi gets off her ass and gets Lisa arrested as she walks into the Fed Meeting, Karma will persevere.

Yeah...

Not a fan of Bondi at all, myself.

She needs to go.

I've never been a fan of blondes, myself. Bit of an overdose in D.C. this year.

If you want to go there though, I'd say we've got a problem with non-blonde Kristi Noem.
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but, compared to the slew of recent AGs we have suffered under, this is one I can deal with.

Agreed.

I just lost any and all respect for her after she made a big deal about having all the Epstein files on her desk, and then releasing those binders to a bunch of right-wing dipshit political influencers with noting inside but highly redacted versions of documents that were all leaked years ago.

This is the one single issue that TDS sufferers like Ted can glom onto right now, and it's all Pam Bondi's fault.

Now... maybe she was forced into that position because I'm right and Trump is either sitting on that info until right before the midterm or 2028 elections and/or is currently using that info to blackmail other world leaders in these trade agreements right now, but regardless...

She is ballast that needs to be cut. She should resign and we can just use this to replace her with somebody better.

I give her a pass, for now, on Epstein. She was new in the job, and, like Trump the first time around, may have assume the Libtards running the shitshow were not evil a-holes. She may have conjured there were at least a few competent people in the agencies.
Libtards obfuscating and covering up, whitewashing everything for the past decade is not something I lay at her feet. She may have been told things from people who were supposed to know, beneath her. What she has done in such a short time is monumental, and I could not conjure there would not be hiccups and stumbles along the way. If there was nothing for Libtards to hide with Epstein, they had 4 years to uncover the truth anyhow. Now it may be as unfathomable as JFK.


Regarding cutting her loose. Or, as Tedtard sez, cut her lose.
I was dismayed when Trump ditched Gen Mike Flynn, which he eventually found out he screwed up, he stabbed him in the back while pulling the rug out from under him, just as the minions of Deep State wanted him to. Trump was too rash then.
Maybe he is more measured now, and not as gullible. He has learned to keep his kids out of the fray, out of the target zone.
Maybe she eventually needs to be cut, I'm not convinced yet. But for now, I prefer there is some stability in important roles in D.C. If she was another Merritless Garland, then I agree she should be shot on sight - but she clearly is not in that camp, and she is doing far more than anybody else in that job in decades.

I prefer she is not axed until in the job at least a year - unless she has been copying Gov Cook, or Cameltoe Harris.



Fair enough.

If she wasn't at fault for the Epstein debacle, I do think it was a severe tactical mistake on somebody's part to put that at her feet the way they did though.

Maybe some of the MAGA people in the government were drinking too much of the Democrat/Media Kool-Aid and really believed what they were saying that Trump voters will believe whatever he says or whatever his administration says, and that we'd all march lock-step with them like Ted and Second and the idiot Democratic Party voters did until it lead to the ultimate demise of their party.

So to put that on her without the intention of just throwing her under the bus when the BULLSHIT binders were released... It just doesn't make any sense to me.

To me, how that has been handled so far is the biggest mystery surrounding Trump 2.0. I could think of a dozen ways that could have all been handled much better, and where it wouldn't be something the media keeps trying to get idiots like Ted to focus on after more than 4 years of pretending it didn't even exist.

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Sunday, September 14, 2025 3:40 AM

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Sunday, September 14, 2025 8:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Court wants reply from White House by 3pm Sunday:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-governor-cook-asks-appeals-22233
1176.html






Invalid argument:

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On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb ruled the administration had not satisfied a legal requirement that Fed governors can only be fired “for cause,” which she said was limited to misconduct while in office. Cook did not join the Fed’s board until 2022.


That isn't going to hold up.


Last good job I had was handling Credit/Debit card transactions en masse at a company which would get fined $50k per hour if it did not have the reconciliation sent to the FED every morning at 2AM CST.

Compared to her, I was extremely low level on that particular totem pole. There were EXTENSIVE background checks before I was hired on, and they wouldn't let me anywhere near that money and info if I had any prior arrests or had been found to pull any sort of financial shenanigans before being hired.

Cook is cooked.

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Cook is cooked.

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The Democrats are the party of Murder.

Wondering where 6ixStringJack got his obsession about murdering every Democrat?

Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals

https://newrepublic.com/article/200410/trump-issued-unnerving-threat-l
iberals


Imagine that President Donald Trump actively wanted to encourage radical right-wing groups and “lone wolf” individuals to wage open violent warfare on anyone they deem a leftist anywhere in America. If Trump wanted to send that precise message, he could hardly do much better than the words he actually did deliver on Fox and Friends on Friday morning.

“We have radicals on the right, as well—we have radicals on the left,” Fox’s Ainsley Earhardt said as Trump listened during a discussion about the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk. Earhardt continued: “How do we fix this country?”

“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” Trump replied. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming in. We don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.’”

Trump concluded: “The radicals on the left are the problem.”

This exchange is being vastly overshadowed by the arrest of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old unaffiliated voter in Utah, for allegedly assassinating Kirk. But whatever more we learn about Robinson, this Trump moment mustn’t skate by unnoticed. Though Trump has encouraged right-wing political violence for years—including inciting a violent insurrection and pardoning hundreds of supporters for it—he has also been known to rhetorically denounce political violence from both sides at key moments, or has gone through the motions of doing so.

But now Trump has broken with even that ritual, one enacted by presidents in both parties for decades. “I couldn’t care less” about radicals on the right, Trump explicitly said, declaring straight out that right-wing extremism is justified as a response to the alleged extremism of the left.

That is likely to be received as a clear message by radical right-wing forces across the country. Kirk’s assassination has triggered many on the right to call for full-scale violent civil conflict. “Charlie tried to have conversations with you on the left, and you killed him for it,” seethed influencer Matt Walsh, calling on the right to “fight back” in response. Libs of TikTok screamed: “THIS IS WAR.”

Notably, those calls to arms came well before we knew anything about Kirk’s alleged assassin. These declarations openly, unabashedly declare that the right has now been given the excuse it needs to wage open season on the left. On Fox, Trump has basically given this the green light.

“That statement is basically a permission slip,” said Jared Holt, who tracks extremist activity for the online research group Open Measures. Holt means this in two senses: Trump’s statement offers permission to broader mainstream audiences to write off the importance of radical right-wing violence, and is also aimed at right-wing extremist activity itself.

“It’s very likely that radical right groups that talk about Trump’s statement are going to view it as an indirect endorsement,” Holt added.

Kirk’s murder has ignited the perennial online war over which “side” is more guilty of political violence. Here’s a very partial list of prominent horrors: Aimed at the right we’ve seen the gristly shooting of Representative Steve Scalise, the two assassination attempts on Trump, and now the killing of Kirk. In the other direction, we’ve had numerous mass shootings motivated by “great replacement theory,” the vicious assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, the assassination of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, and of course the January 6 insurrection.

Kirk’s alleged assassin was apparently in the grip of a bundle of incoherent views rooted in extensive online meme brainrot. Perhaps he will turn out to be “more” left than right; perhaps not. But either way, to engage in these comparisons at times like these is to fight on the wrong field.

When certain far-right voices vow retribution in response to Kirk’s murder, they’re seizing on it as a bad-faith pretext to wage open warfare on liberals and leftists who are not guilty of any political violence at all. As Brian Beutler notes, only the right’s major institutional players do this.

Put another way: No amount of reasoning about who actually has waged political violence and who has not—or about who has actually been victimized and who has not—can make headway against that push. The entire point of it is to fake-justify the targeting of innocents.

Look at what the president said just after the assassination of Kirk:

For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country and must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges and law enforcement officials.

As Jonathan Chait notes, here Trump treats political violence as if it only exists on one side of the spectrum. I’d add something else: I’m unaware of any other recent president explicitly vowing to unleash the power of the American state on a vast, inchoate ideological group in quite this way.

Trump’s wording in this prewritten speech is deliberate: He says his administration will target everyone it can find who contributed to the assassination of Kirk. The clear message is that anyone who can be blamed for Kirk’s death even speciously and pretextually is now subject to retribution by the full force of the government and Trump’s security services. Note that this includes liberal-left “organizations” as well.

It shouldn’t escape notice that Stephen Miller recently called the entire Democratic Party a “domestic extremist organization,” or that Miller is a close ally of FBI Director Kash Patel. One imagines that Miller is whispering in Trump’s ear that Kirk’s assassination frees him to defy the courts with abandon and is conspiring with Patel to draw up plans for going after “domestic extremist” Democrats in what could look like a revival of the FBI domestic political spying of the 1960s.

If you think that sounds far-fetched, note that leading MAGA figures very much expect something like this, as these examples collected by Zack Beauchamp document:

We need whistleblowers right now more than ever: If the FBI gets enlisted in this threatened campaign of state retribution—which seems likely, given that Patel vowed exactly this before Trump won—we need to know what sort of planning for this is taking place on the inside. And now that Trump has declared right-wing extremist targeting of the left fully justified, we also need to know if the FBI is further turning a blind eye to far-right paramilitary mobilizations.

Obviously, presidents are supposed to try to calm tensions at such times, which is why they usually call for restraint on both sides. True, invoking a “norm” like this one seems preciously naïve when the authoritarian president is openly waging war against blue America on many fronts. But let’s not forget that there’s a reason presidents have typically denounced political violence on both sides: What presidents say on this topic matters.

“When any national political leader blames the other party for political violence, this only raises the temperature on both sides,” University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape, who researches the issue, tells me.

Pape says Trump’s statement on Fox represents something new. “There’s never been a president in our lifetimes who has excused political violence on his own side,” Pape notes, adding that Trump should instead “restrain extremist responses to the assassination of Kirk.”

Unfortunately, that’s not what Trump is doing at all. At a time when some of his most prominent supporters are calling for open season on liberals and the left, he’s functionally saying: Go for it. The MAGA-captured American state has your back. We’re behind you all the way.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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