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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, sparking accusations that the Trump administration is using DOJ to go after the president’s adversaries. In August, President Donald Trump took the unprecedented move of attempting to fire Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, alleging that she had committed mortgage fraud.

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"You're fired"

"You can't fire me without reason!"

"You're fired and I say you broke the law!"

"I wasn't found guilty of breaking the law! You still can't fire me!"

"Oh crap, pushback. Usually people cave. Uh, ok we'll ~~harass~~ investigate you and your associates for crimes we said you did, replace you with our puppet in the interm, then fire you!"

That about the gist of it?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

Pretty much, yeah. She's doing the right thing. Push back. Make them work. No one has infinite time or resources. No matter how much danger it puts you in to make yourself a little outlier, it won't hold a candle to some poor bastard who's going to CECOT or whatever, and maybe the time they spend on you will be less attention they can spend on expanding some "detention center" somewhere.