My Dumb State: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson Wants To Convict Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook, Without a Trial

Nov 18, 2025 09:41 PM EST, Tue

In Trump’s America, one is presumed guilty until proven innocent.

Trump is severely lacking in business acumen.

  1. He has bankrupted his Trump Company
  2. Lost two casinos. How? When the house always wins?
  3. Lost an airline.
  4. Lost a football team.
  5. Trump University was a scam.
  6. Trump Foundation was a self-dealing sham charity.

📞 Condensed Call Script for Attorney General Wilson

Introduction:

Hello, I’m calling to express concern about Attorney General Wilson’s amicus brief supporting Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

The Federal Reserve Act does not give the President unilateral power to remove governors. Allegations of “cause” require due process — indictment by a grand jury and adjudication in court. Presuming guilt before innocence is not justice.

Independence of the Fed:

Congress designed the Fed to be independent of political influence. Governors serve 14-year terms to shield them from presidential pressure. Undermining that independence risks America’s financial stability.

Economic Record:

Putting someone in charge of monetary policy who has bankrupted companies, lost an airline, a football team, and even casinos — where the house always wins — is reckless. His policies already added $3 trillion to the national debt.

Global Example:

Look at Argentina: their central bank answers to the president, and the result has been rampant inflation and repeated defaults. America cannot afford that path.

Hypocrisy on Bureaucrats:

Wilson rails against “unelected bureaucrats,” yet if elected governor, he will appoint unelected officials to run agencies. Congress intentionally gave agencies long terms — FBI Director (10 years), FTC Commissioners (7 years) — to protect them from political meddling. Undermining that design erodes stability.

Closing:

Attorney General Wilson should respect the independence of institutions rather than politicize them. America’s financial credibility depends on it.

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Memorable soundbites: “Presumed guilty before innocent,” “Even casinos where the house always wins,” “America cannot afford Argentina’s path.”

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📞 Quick Call Script (30 seconds)

Hello, I’m calling about Attorney General Wilson’s amicus brief supporting Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The Fed was designed by Congress to be independent — governors serve 14‑year terms to prevent political interference. Allegations of “cause” require due process in court, not presidential whim. Undermining that independence risks America’s financial stability, just look at Argentina’s inflation crisis. Wilson’s attack on “unelected bureaucrats” is hypocritical — he’ll appoint them himself if he’s governor.

America’s credibility depends on respecting independent institutions, not politicizing them.

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson ought to know better.

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      al·​le·​ga·​tion - \ ˌa-lə-ˈgā-shən \
      Legal Definition
      1: the act of alleging
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      b: a statement by a party to a lawsuit of what the party will attempt to prove : averment
      — compare accusation, indictment, information, proof
  • Merriam-Webster’s definition of “grand jury”:
    • noun
      Legal Definition
      : a jury that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and if the evidence warrants makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried
      — see also no bill and true bill at bill sense 3b, indictment
      — compare petit jury, special grand jury
  • Merriam-Webster’s definition of “indictment”:
    • noun
      in·​dict·​ment - \ in-ˈdīt-mənt \
      Legal Definition
      1: the action or the legal process of indicting
      2a: a formal written statement framed by a prosecuting authority and found by a grand jury that charges a person or persons with an offense
      — compare complaint, information
      b: bill of indictment
  • Merriam-Webster’s definition of “adjudicate”:
    • verb
      ad·​ju·​di·​cate - \ ə-ˈjü-di-ˌkāt \
      ad​ju​di​cat​ed; ad​ju​di​cat​ing
      Legal Definition
      transitive ​verb
      1: to settle either finally or temporarily (the rights and duties of the parties to a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding) on the merits of the issues raised
      2: to pass judgment on as a judge : settle judicially
      3: to pronounce judicially to be
      //was adjudicated a bankrupt
      //was adjudicated the child’s father
      4: to convey by judicial sale
      intransitive ​verb
      : to come to a judicial decision : act as judge
      //the court adjudicated upon the case

Attorney General Alan Wilson supports President Trump’s authority to remove bureaucrats - South Carolina Attorney General

NOV 03, 2025

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 22 other states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief supporting President Trump’s authority to fire Lisa Cook, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

“I’m proud to stand with President Trump in this case. I think the Constitution and federal law give him the authority to fire her in these circumstances, and he is on solid ground in attempting to fire her for cause. At the end of the day, the President gets to exercise executive power—not unelected bureaucrats,” Attorney General Wilson said.

In October, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump could not remove Cook from the Board immediately, saying the Court would hear arguments in January. The brief, signed by the attorneys general of 22 states and the Arizona Legislature, asks the Court to allow the President to remove her.

President Trump says he can fire her for cause because he alleges Cook falsified records so she could get better mortgage terms before joining the Fed in 2022.

The states argue in their brief that Cook is challenging a part of the Federal Reserve Act that allows the President to remove her for cause. “Any such restriction on the President’s authority to remove should be construed as narrowly as possible to avoid the constitutional doubts raised by interference with the President’s presumptive power to remove executive officers under Article II, particularly principal officers. On top of that, the history of how courts, including this Court, have understood ‘for cause’ removal restrictions counsels strongly against the judiciary’s second-guessing the decision of the President to remove Cook,” they write in their brief.

Joining Attorney General Wilson in the brief are the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia, and the Arizona Legislature.

You can read the brief here.

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The Honorable Alan Wilson
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