Two Strong Women Say No to a Bully

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

In a move that undoubtedly sated his addiction to bullying on multiple levels, Donald Trump announced Monday night on Truth Social that he was firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, effective immediately.  Ms. Cook, the first black female to serve as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System, is currently at the front end of a fourteen-year term and can only be removed for cause.  Trump and his head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, are accusing Ms. Cook of mortgage fraud, claiming different homes as primary residences on two separate mortgage applications.  (That charge, coming from Donald John Trump, is exceedingly rich in irony!)

As of yet Lisa Cook has not been charged with, nor convicted of, anything.

Ms. Cook chose not to go quietly into that dark night, and instead hired a lawyer, a damned good one - Abbe Lowell of Washington, DC.  Ms. Cook asserts that she will not resign, that no "cause" exists for her firing, and that Donald Trump does not have the authority to fire her.  She and her attorney will be seeing the President, or his toad de jure, in court.

In a similar matter, Dr. Susan Monarez, an American health scientist, was fired yesterday as the head of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) after only serving in that capacity for thirty days.  She was apparently asked resign by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy because she was not aligned with some of his initiatives, and she declined to quit.  She was then notified that she had been fired by members of the Trump administration, but through her lawyer,  Dr. Monarez stated that the President had appointed her, and only he could fire her - and she was not leaving short of that.

Now, while the rest of DC waits for the other shoe to drop in the Monarez firing, Donald Trump, not the poster boy for healthy America, struggles to pull that shoe off his elderly foot.

Give him hell, ladies!