Trump Uses Biden DOJ Playbook to Go After Letitia James and Lisa Cook
- Donald V. Watkins
- Aug 21
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 21
By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on August 21, 2025
An Editorial Opinion
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a fan or supporter of Joe Biden. I am familiar with Biden’s political career in Washington, and I have a very low opinion of him.
Biden has always been dumb, weak, and compromised. During his early days in the U.S. Senate, Biden peddled a racist agenda with respect to school desegregation and the criminalization of federal drug offenses.
As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, Joe Biden had an opportunity to kill Clarence Thomas’ nomination to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, but he refused to do so. This single failure of leadership harmed tens of millions of women, racial minorities, and LGBTQ Americans over the next three decades.
Barack Obama picked Biden as his vice president because he knew Biden was a non-threatening white man who would never usurp his authority or spotlight as president.
By the time Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he was old, weak, senile, and useless. I opposed Biden’s candidacy at the time.
Biden’s Department of Justice Paved the Way for Trump to Persecute Two Black Woman of Power
Joe Biden picked Merrick Garland as his Attorney General. Garland was a weak, useless, pathetic, crybaby in the job. Garland's incompetency in leading the Department of Justice (DOJ) contributed to Donald Trump's rise in political popularity between 2022 and 2024.
In 2022, Biden’s DOJ indicted Baltimore, Maryland state’s attorney Marilyn J. Mosby on trumped up mortgage fraud and perjury charges. Between 2023 and 2024, Mosby was tried and convicted on both charges. Mosby was innocent of the charges against her, but this did not matter to Biden’s prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors in Maryland have a long, documented, and ugly history of politically-motivated prosecutions. It is one of the few jurisdictions where a sitting U.S. Attorney (i.e., Thomas M. DiBiagio) was fired by a sitting president (i.e., George W. Bush) for engaging in such prosecutorial misconduct.
No one in Biden's DOJ attempted to stop the impermissible targeting and persecution of Marilyn Mosby. From Merrick Garland on down, they all marched in goose step to lynch her.
Even though 60 members of the Congressional Black Caucus signed a March 2024 letter asking Biden to pardon Mosby, he refused to do so. Yet, Biden did not hesitate to pardon his worthless, dopehead, grifting son Hunter Biden, who was convicted in Delaware on federal gun possession charges and pleaded guilty in California to federal tax evasion charges in 2024.
Trump is Using Biden’s Mortgage Fraud Playbook to Go After Letitia James and Lisa D. Cook.
Donald Trump is using Joe Biden's mortgage fraud playbook to go after New York Attorney General Letitia James and Federal Reserve Board member Lisa D. Cook. Trump's appointee at a federal housing regulatory agency referred each woman to the DOJ for an investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud and a criminal prosecution.
Trump’s DOJ is expected to indict both women on bogus mortgage fraud charges because Trump seeks revenge against them. James obtained a $527 million judgment against Trump and his sons, which was reversed on appeal today. Cook is one of the Federal Reserve Board members who is aligned with Board Chairman Jerome Powell, whom Trump despises and wants to replace.
DOJ is seeking Cook’s immediate removal from the Board, citing its criminal investigation of her.
Letitia James and Lisa Cook will go through the hell of fighting Trump’s weaponized DOJ, which is using Joe Biden’s mortgage fraud playbook against them in every public arena. If their cases go before a Trump-appointed federal judge, these women will likely be railroaded in court and convicted.
Lisa Cook issued this statement in response to Donald Trump's effort to remove her from the Federal Reserve Board.
There seems to be no sign of sympathy from the president related to those declared as his enemies. Everyone who differed from during and after his first term in office has been attacked in ways that have affected them professionally and / or financially. We have witnessed judges arrested and reported to the bar on unethical conduct. Prosecutors removed from cases for bringing charges on false pretense. I can't recall ever seeing anything like this involving law. Maybe I'm just coming into reality of understanding when you "own the plantation"you may do whatever pleases you.