Imagine a routine pill for cholesterol turning into a near-death experience.
A 63-year-old South Carolina woman endured a harrowing ordeal after taking rosuvastatin, a statin drug also used by President Donald Trump, only to suffer a rare and life-threatening condition called rhabdomyolysis that caused severe muscle damage and kidney strain.
For a year, this woman diligently took rosuvastatin, commonly known as Crestor, to manage her high cholesterol and coronary artery disease, a condition affecting millions of Americans.
Then, disaster struck as she began experiencing sudden swelling, soreness, and weakness in her legs.
The symptoms escalated to the point where she couldn’t stand, culminating in a dangerous fall in her bathroom.
At the hospital, blood tests and MRI scans painted a grim picture: severe muscle damage, rampant inflammation, and sky-high creatine kinase levels signaling massive tissue breakdown.
Even worse, her kidneys were under siege from toxic debris released by the crumbling muscles, evidenced by alarming creatinine levels in her system.
Doctors delivered the diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis, a rare but potentially fatal condition that strikes about 26,000 Americans annually and can be lethal in nearly 59% of severe cases if not caught early.
While survival odds hover around 90% with prompt treatment, the fact that statins like rosuvastatin—taken by roughly 40 million in the U.S.—are a recognized, albeit rare, trigger (one in a million annually) raises eyebrows about what Big Pharma isn’t shouting from the rooftops.
How does a drug meant to protect your heart end up shredding your muscles? Statins can disrupt cell membranes and block CoQ10, a vital component for muscle energy, leading to breakdown and toxin release—a silent betrayal by a pill prescribed in 11.8 million doses of Crestor alone in 2023.
Now, consider this: rosuvastatin is "the same statin taken by President Donald Trump," a point worth noting when discussing its risks and reach.
Trump’s own cholesterol journey, from a borderline high of 223 total and 143 LDL in 2018 despite a 10 mg dose, to a stellar 140 total and 51 LDL by 2025 with the addition of ezetimibe, shows the drug’s potential when it doesn’t backfire—though Dr. Ronny Jackson once noted he’d "increase the medication dosage to manage these numbers better."
For our South Carolina survivor, treatment meant halting the statin immediately and flooding her system with IV fluids to flush out toxins and shield her kidneys.
After 12 grueling days in the hospital, she made a steady recovery and was discharged, a testament to modern medicine catching this beast of a condition just in time.
Yet, her story begs the question: with high cholesterol risking heart attacks, strokes, and kidney disease if left unchecked, are we too quick to trust these pills without weighing the rare but real dangers? While progressive health agendas push blanket prescriptions, a conservative look says let’s prioritize patient education over blind faith in pharmaceuticals.
A protester named "Jihad" was arrested on charges of assault and robbery following a brutal confrontation at a Turning Point USA rally at the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday, Breitbart reported. The dustup between Antifa and conservative attendees occurred on November 10, marking the two-month anniversary of the organization's founder, Charlie Kirk.
The man in custody allegedly stole a necklace from someone in the crowd, which led to a fight. Both the victim, who was wearing a red shirt emblazoned with "Freedom" like the one Kirk wore on the day he died, and the alleged perpetrator, Jihad Dphrepaulezz, were left bloody from the confrontation.
"Officers determined that one of the men — Jihad Dphrepau" lezz — had stolen the other man’s chain from around his neck. The other man was attempting to get his chain back from Dphrepaulezz," a spokesman for the Berkeley Police Department said. This was backed up by citizen journalist Andy Ngo, who shared photos of the victim and the suspect, whom he called a "Muslim far-left extremist" on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
A Muslim far-left extremist who severely beat a TPUSA attendee on the face after robbing him at UC Berkeley has been identified as Jihad Dphrepaulezz.
The 25-year-old listed @CAPublicHealth as his employer. Dphrepaulezz is a rapper known as "A.R. The Believer." He tried… https://t.co/dRA0r3X0Fa pic.twitter.com/P87w60iebJ
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 11, 2025
Several protesters showed up to agitate at the event and attempted to cause their usual chaos and violence. "Antifa is breaking through police barricades, and threatening our event attendees!" wrote Mikey McCoy, Turning Point USA chief of staff, in a post to social media.
According to Fox News, the protesters, many of whom were clad in keffiyehs, were chanting phrases like "UCPD KKK" to taunt police officers. They also repeated phrases such as "Turning Point has got to go," "fascists are not welcome here," and "Trump must go now."
Arguably, the worst of their rhetoric involved taunts about Charlie Kirk during an event planned two months to the day of his assassination. "Charlie Kirk went to hell… all the fascists will as well," a protestor said into a megaphone.
Fortunately, as Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, pointed out, this did not deter those who were there to honor Kirk's memory and mission with the event. "Despite Antifa thugs blocking our campus tour stop with tear gas, fireworks, and glass bottles, we had a PACKED HOUSE in the heart of deep blue UC Berkeley. God bless these brave students," Kolvet wrote on X Tuesday.
Despite Antifa thugs blocking our campus tour stop with tear gas, fireworks, and glass bottles, we had a PACKED HOUSE in the heart of deep blue UC Berkeley.
God bless these brave students.
For Charlie 🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/EGgiH2wplF
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) November 11, 2025
Unlike previous instances when these clashes have occurred, President Donald Trump's administration is not about to let it go unpunished. As CNN reported, at least three were arrested during the violent protests, as the Justice Department has promised to pursue those causing mayhem.
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force have promised to investigate the incident further. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division have pledged to pursue the criminals to the fullest extent of the law.
They have launched an investigation that Dhillon said will be "a deep dive into all the potential criminal and civil aspects of this horrific situation, including our concerns about UC Berkeley’s history of not protecting conservative speakers on its campus." The administration has ordered the UC Berkeley Police Department to preserve its records from the event.
"The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence," Bondi posted to X. She called Antifa "an existential threat to our nation."
It's ridiculous that violence would break out at an event just two months after Kirk's death. However, the good news is that the administration is taking care of it and will punish those who seek to hurt Turning Point USA revelers. Surely, Kirk's family is grateful that justice will be done.
Sen. John Fetterman said it is "absolutely troubling" after new emails surfaced where the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioned President Donald Trump by name, The Hill reported. The Pennsylvania Democrat has defended Trump on other issues but is now toeing the party line that the president was somehow involved in the disgraced financier's troubling behavior.
Fetterman has been surprisingly moderate, including at times defending Trump and other Republicans. However, during a CNN interview with Dana Bash on Wednesday, Fetterman took the familiar leftist position of associating Trump with Epstein and his perverse proclivities.
Bash asked Fetterman about emails that were supposedly sent from Epstein that mentioned Trump as the "dog that hasn't barked" as his alleged crimes were coming to light. Epstein also mentioned that Trump spent "hours" with one of the women who would later be identified as one of his victims. Fetterman took the bait and ran with his criticism of Trump.
Fetterman had strong words about the new revelations found in these unearthed emails as the senator appeared in his signature black hoodie. "I have followed it, of course," the 56-year-old lawmaker.
"Yeah, it’s absolutely troubling, you know, to see that. And I think we probably need more," Fetterman said.
Fetterman pointed out that the Epstein files need to be released through the FBI and Justice Department, and that Democrats and Republicans agree on this. They have gone so far as to initiate a discharge petition that would bring the issue to the floor of the House of Representatives.
"My understanding is that now that the House is back now, they have enough to activate that discharge petition — I think that’s the technical term — and then I think everything should come out. I think, you know, enough people agree that it should just come out and just see where this goes and follow … the evidence," Fetterman continued.
Unfortunately, Epstein killed himself while in prison in 2019, so he cannot confirm these suspicious claims one way or the other. Still, his alleged accomplice and romantic partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving 20 years in prison for her part in the conspiracy that facilitated his abuse of minors. She is in the process of requesting that her sentence be commuted.
The White House attempted to dismiss the claims in the emails, stating that Democrats were "selectively" releasing the documents to cause the most damage and "create a fake narrative" against Trump. "These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, according to NBC News.
However, some of the emails released Wednesday from the House Oversight Committee are damning to Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and others. Trump's name is mentioned in the emails from Epstein, including his claim that he was not thrown out of Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, as the president so often said.
"Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever," Epstein purportedly wrote. Other claims included that Clinton "never" went to Epstein's private island despite Trump's insistence that he had been.
Ironically, the sleezy financier also claimed that Trump's business practices were "dirty" and his methods underhanded. "He has no money when he buys the house. His biz model is putting his name on a real estate development and gets a fee for using his name. The hotel biz is just that," Epstein wrote in a February 2019 email.
The entire Epstein affair, including his island, has many layers, with many prominent individuals likely entangled in it. If Trump was doing something wrong, he deserves to be punished; however, it is suspect that this is only coming to light now despite years of legal pursuit from the left.
President Donald Trump recently floated a controversial idea to make mortgages more affordable for families: a 50-year mortgage, which is two to more than three times the current options of 15 or 30 years.
The blowback from this idea was loud and instantaneous, and now officials in the administration are calling for the head of the man who suggested the idea to Trump, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.
It was Saturday when Pulte floated the idea of the 50-year mortgage to Trump, using a poster board to bolster his defense of the plan.
Trump apparently went for it, since he mentioned it on Truth Social right afterward. But not surprisingly, a lot of people didn't go for the idea, which would dramatically increase the amount of interest paid and the length of time people would make payments before owning their homes.
Financially, it's just a bad idea, but to people priced out of the housing market by a few hundred dollars a month, it may be something they want to consider.
It may be more of a temporary fix until mortgage interest rates go down further, or until wages catch up with inflation.
All that to say, it may not be a completely terrible idea at a time when the cost of buying a home has virtually doubled in under 10 years.
This is probably what Trump thought, but the usual suspects, along with the fiscal hawks, jumped all over him the moment they saw the idea.
“The idea behind the 15- and 30-year mortgage is that you eventually own the home you live in, whereas the 50-year mortgage abandons this pretense altogether and fully embraces the idea of housing as a speculative asset. Not good, unless you’re a bank,” Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo wrote on X.
“The 50-year mortgage proposal is basically: cut a few hundred off the monthly payment, spend hundreds of thousands more overall. If that sounds like a good deal to you, congratulations! You just rented from the bank for half a century,” podcaster Steven Crowder wrote on X.
Which leads to the reaction of Trump officials to the backlash.
“Anything that goes before POTUS needs to be vetted,” a person present for Pulte’s pitch said. “And a lot of times with Pulte they’re not. He just goes straight up to POTUS.”
Trump loves to say that the economy is booming, but in reality it is more like hanging on by a thread.
And while Trump can use any help he can get right now, 50-year mortgages seem more like a band-aid for inflation and a cautious Fed than a real solution to what may become a housing crisis soon.
Hold onto your hats, folks—a Utah judge just dropped a bombshell that could shake up the battle for House control in 2026.
In a stunning decision, Utah District Judge Dianna Gibson tossed out a congressional map drawn by the state’s Republican-led legislature and opted for an alternative that tilts a district toward Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, Fox News reported.
This saga kicked off when civic groups, including the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government, filed a lawsuit challenging the GOP’s map.
Following a 2018 voter-approved measure aimed at curbing gerrymandering, Judge Gibson ruled late Monday that the Republican-drawn map unfairly favored their party while sidelining Democratic voices.
Last month, the legislature submitted a revised map as ordered, but Gibson rejected it, instead greenlighting a plaintiff-submitted version that keeps most of Democratic-heavy Salt Lake County in one district.
Contrast that with the old map, which carved up Salt Lake County across all four districts, diluting its voting power—a move many saw as strategic for GOP dominance.
The court-approved map could be a game-changer, crafting a Democratic-leaning district in a state where Republicans currently hold all four congressional seats.
Democrats haven’t snagged a Utah congressional seat since the current map was implemented at the decade’s start, making this ruling a potential lifeline for their hopes in 2026.
Yet, Utah Republican Party chair Robert Axson isn’t taking this lying down, arguing, “Judge Gibson has once again exceeded the constitutional authority granted to Utah's judiciary.” (Robert Axson, Utah Republican Party chair)
Axson’s frustration is clear as he further charged, “This is not interpretation. It is the arrogance of a judge playing King from the bench.” (Robert Axson, Utah Republican Party chair)
Republicans contend that Gibson overstepped by imposing a map not sanctioned by the legislature, raising thorny questions about judicial versus legislative power in redistricting.
On the flip side, Democrats are cheering, with DNC Chair Ken Martin praising the ruling as a victory for fairness, though one wonders if “impartial” is just code for “we got what we wanted.”
This Utah dust-up is just one skirmish in a nationwide war over redistricting, with states like Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and even blue strongholds like Illinois and Maryland redrawing lines as the 2026 midterms loom.
With President Donald Trump and the GOP fighting to protect their slim House majority, and Democrats hungry to avoid another 2018-style loss, every district counts—making Utah’s new map a potential pebble in the Republican shoe.
While California’s recent vote to shift redistricting power back to its Democrat-led legislature might offset GOP gains in Texas, Utah’s ruling adds another wildcard to an already tense national chessboard.
Hold onto your hats, folks—newly released emails from the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender, drop a bombshell about Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in curbing predatory behavior at Mar-a-Lago.
These emails, unveiled by House Democrats, claim Trump directly told Ghislaine Maxwell to halt recruiting young girls from the Mar-a-Lago spa for abuse, reigniting fierce debate over his past ties to Epstein, the New York Post reported.
Let’s rewind to the 1990s and early 2000s, when Trump and Epstein were known to be chummy in Palm Beach, Florida, before a real estate spat reportedly soured their friendship.
Fast forward to the mid-2000s, and Trump has long maintained he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for inappropriate conduct, including poaching female employees from the club’s renowned spa.
Trump has been vocal about this, explaining to reporters on a past July 29 that Epstein “took people that worked for me,” which he deemed unacceptable, leading to a swift expulsion.
That’s a strong stance, but the progressive crowd seems eager to paint a different picture, conveniently ignoring Trump’s proactive steps while focusing on old associations.
Now, enter the bombshell correspondence: an email from Epstein to author Michael Wolff on January 31, 2019, claims, “[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop.”
That line raises eyebrows, suggesting Trump was aware of the issue and intervened—hardly the narrative of complicity that some on the left are desperate to spin.
Another email from April 2, 2011, shows Epstein referencing Trump to Maxwell as “that dog that hasn’t barked,” hinting at an unnamed victim who spent time with Trump but never implicated him.
House Democrats dropped these emails like a hot potato on a recent Wednesday, but the White House, through Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, fired back, calling it a calculated smear job against Trump.
Leavitt argued the unnamed victim is Virginia Giuffre, who has publicly stated Trump wasn’t involved in any wrongdoing—a detail Democrats seem to gloss over in their rush to score political points.
House Oversight Committee Republicans echoed this, questioning why Democrats redacted Giuffre’s name when she’s already cleared Trump, smelling a rat in this selective storytelling.
Trump himself hasn’t minced words, branding this Epstein focus a “hoax” and a desperate Democratic ploy to tarnish his reputation, especially since official probes ruled Epstein’s 2019 jail cell death a suicide with no mysterious “client list” to uncover.
While the left pushes for drama, a bipartisan House petition, awaiting a key signature from Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva for a potential vote, demands the Justice Department release all Epstein files—a move that still needs Republican Senate approval and Trump’s signature to become law.
At the end of the day, this saga reeks of political theater, but the core fact remains: Trump took action to distance himself from Epstein’s creepy orbit, and no amount of email leaks can rewrite that history.
Hold onto your hats, folks—the U.S. Supreme Court just sidestepped a cultural lightning rod by refusing to hear a challenge from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who dug in her heels against issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
According to NCR Online, on November 10, the justices turned down Davis’s appeal, leaving intact the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that cemented same-sex marriage as a constitutional right across the nation.
Let’s rewind to 2015, when Davis, then a county clerk in Kentucky, made headlines by flat-out refusing to grant a marriage license to a same-sex couple, citing her personal beliefs.
That decision landed her in hot water, with a federal jury later ordering her to pay a hefty $100,000 in damages and $260,000 in attorneys’ fees to the couple she denied.
Davis’s appeal wasn’t just about the money—it was a bold push to get the Supreme Court to reconsider Obergefell, the landmark 5-4 decision that tossed out state laws restricting marriage to one man and one woman.
This was the first major attempt to unravel that ruling, but the justices, perhaps wary of reopening a settled cultural debate, said “no thanks” to taking up the case.
Many legal minds saw this coming, questioning whether Davis’s case had the chops to challenge such a significant precedent as Obergefell.
Robert George, a Princeton legal scholar, noted, “One question undoubtedly in the minds of some justices is whether, despite its being wrongly decided — and a usurpation by the judiciary of democratic legislative authority — the doctrine of 'stare decisis' counsels leaving the decision in place.”
Translation: Even if some justices think Obergefell was a judicial overreach, the principle of sticking to past rulings might keep them from touching it—especially in a case as messy as this one.
Mathew Staver, Davis’s attorney from Liberty Counsel, didn’t mince words, stating, “[Kim Davis] was jailed, hauled before a jury, and now faces crippling monetary damages based on nothing more than purported hurt feelings.”
While one can sympathize with Davis’s conviction, the law isn’t a feelings-based system, and Staver’s promise to keep fighting Obergefell feels like tilting at windmills when the Court won’t even hear the case.
Justice Clarence Thomas has hinted in past writings, like his concurrence in the Dobbs decision, that Obergefell and other due process precedents deserve a second look, a point Davis’s team leaned on heavily in their petition.
Yet, as Notre Dame’s Rick Garnett pointed out, this case never seemed like the right vehicle for such a monumental reversal, predicting the justices would pass on it due to its narrow, fact-specific nature.
On the flip side, voices like William Powell from Georgetown Law celebrated the outcome as a victory for same-sex couples, affirming their right to marry without fear of local officials playing gatekeeper.
While the Respect for Marriage Act of 2022 offers a federal safety net for existing same-sex and interracial unions, the broader cultural clash over marriage’s definition—echoed by groups like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who opposed Obergefell—shows this debate is far from over, even if the Court stays on the sidelines for now.
Hold onto your hats, folks—New York Attorney General Letitia James, a darling of the progressive elite, finds herself in hot water with police calls piling up at properties she owns, Breitbart reported.
Reports reveal a troubling pattern of frequent law enforcement visits to two homes tied to James, alongside a Virginia grand jury indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud.
Let’s start with the Virginia property, which James allegedly claimed as a second home to snag favorable mortgage rates.
The indictment, handed down on Oct. 9, 2025, contends that the house isn’t a cozy retreat for James but rather a rental, a move that could jack up interest rates if disclosed properly.
Occupying this residence is James’s grandniece, Nakia Thompson, who reportedly settled there with her three children back in 2020.
Police have been no strangers to this address, responding at least a dozen times for everything from vandalism to domestic disputes, with half a dozen calls just in October 2025.
Now, let’s talk about the other property, snapped up by James in 2023, which also seems to double as a haven for family members with legal troubles.
Between April 2024 and April 2025, law enforcement rolled up to this second home ten times, including at least one incident involving an assault.
That’s over two dozen total police dispatches to properties under James’s name—hardly the hallmark of quiet, law-abiding neighborhoods.
James, never one to shy away from a fight, has pushed back against the mortgage fraud accusations with a familiar refrain.
“The mortgage fraud case against her is ‘about a justice system which has been weaponized,’” James declared, per reports.
Weaponized or not, the optics of fudging mortgage details while championing public integrity don’t exactly scream trustworthiness—especially when police are practically on speed dial at your properties.
As for Thompson, the grandniece living in the Virginia home, she’s taken to social media to downplay her own rap sheet.
“[She has] not been in trouble in ‘years at all,’” Thompson posted on Facebook, though the frequent police presence at her residence might suggest otherwise to skeptical observers.
While family struggles deserve empathy, the pattern of legal entanglements and property misuse tied to a high-profile official like James raises fair questions about accountability—questions conservatives have long asked of those pushing progressive agendas from ivory towers.
Democrats are calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to resign after the shutdown dragged on for weeks before they ultimately caved to Republicans' demands, Newsweek reported. After the longest shutdown in U.S. history, one independent and seven Democrats joined the GOP to end it without the healthcare subsidies Democrats demanded.
The shutdown lasted 40 days and disrupted services such as air traffic control and SNAP food subsidies as both sides blamed the other. The Democrats were looking to extend Affordable Care Act handouts that are set to expire in January, while Republicans opposed more entitlements.
Neither side was budging until some Democrats jumped ship and joined Republicans to reopen the government, with the promise that another vote in December would re-examine the possibility of extending healthcare handouts. This ultimately rendered the shutdown completely useless.
Now, some are looking to Schumer to find out why he didn't know there would be so many defectors to undermine their effort. The deal has been struck, and Democrats subjected their constituents to ongoing closures and benefit denials to ultimately roll over in the end anyway.
As usual in Washington, D.C., there is a long list of people waiting to jump into Schumer's political grave should he be ousted. Some of those poised to take over for him include Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who has been positioning himself to raise his profile within the party.
In April, Booker engaged in a 25-hour filibuster, which broke a Senate record and made headlines. Booker is undoubtedly ambitious, but he might have his sights set even higher, while others, like Amy Klobuchar, seem to be in the sweet spot.
The Minnesota Democrat is chair of the Steering & Policy Committee, which is often a stepping stone to party leadership. She has also been in front of the press during the government shutdown and was pushing for Democrats to hold steady on the fight for healthcare subsidies. Of course, there's always Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has tried and failed several times to elevate her position.
However, some believe that Sen. Tammy Baldwin may be a strong contender after her powerful speech on sticking to the subsidies. "I am not willing to just go along with this government funding bill that does nothing to address health care costs skyrocketing. That’s why I went to the floor to try to add a one-year extension to the Affordable Care Act tax breaks. This fight is not over," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, with a video of an impassioned speech during the shutdown.
I am not willing to just go along with this government funding bill that does nothing to address health care costs skyrocketing.
That’s why I went to the floor to try to add a one-year extension to the Affordable Care Act tax breaks.
This fight is not over. pic.twitter.com/Qz5ig9BJxT
— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) November 11, 2025
According to The Hill, there is a growing number of Democrats who support leadership change for the 76-year-old. "Squad" member Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts said that it was time for Schumer to vacate the position, as she is mulling her own Senate run.
"I’m very disappointed. I think that we find ourselves in an unprecedented moment, and that unprecedented moment demands new leadership, a different approach. But I am again, very disappointed in the eight Democrats that did not hold the line in keeping with what was the demands of the people in the communities who sent them there," Pressley told Politico.
Similarly, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan also chastized Schumer, especially when it came to his lack of support for Gaza in the war with Israel. During the shutdown, she blamed Schumer for potentially ruining the midterm elections for Democrats in 2026.
"Sen. Schumer has failed to meet this moment and is out of touch with the American people. The Democratic Party needs leaders who fight and deliver for working people. Schumer should step down," Tlaib said in a post to X.
The government shutdown was supposed to hurt Republicans, but it seems to have backfired on Democrats. Since Schumer was the head of it all, he will be the one that they scapegoat. One thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on is that it's about time that the elderly politician steps down anyway.
A new report reveals that two of the properties owned by New York Attorney General Letitia James have been visited by police more than two dozen times, Breitbart reported. The homes, which are part of her mortgage fraud indictment, are occupied by her beleaguered family member, who has a checkered past.
The properties involved were part of the ongoing controversy about James's alleged lies on her mortgage documents. When applying for financing on her Virginia homes, James claimed that one would be her primary residence while the other would be a second home.
Interest rates are typically higher on homes rented to others or used as vacation homes, so James potentially benefited from claiming a Virginia residence even while serving in the New York government. Meanwhile, the family members who occupied the homes James purchased have had their share of drama, including repeated visits from law enforcement, according to the New York Post.
Cops called to Letitia James’ Virginia homes two dozen times since she bought them https://t.co/o3ABDG6Bnd pic.twitter.com/Sna6VwvxUE
— New York Post (@nypost) November 11, 2025
Police were called on several occasions to the Virginia residence owned by James, which was occupied by her grandniece, Nakia Thompson. The 36-year-old, who has a criminal history, lives at the house with her three children, where she has lived since James closed on the house in August 2020.
According to police reports, there have been several calls to the house, with some even occurring on the same day. Cops have been visiting to serve warrants and subpoenas, and also for issues such as domestic violence, vandalism, and calls about suspicious persons.
The most recent activity includes six calls made in the first two weeks of October of this year. Still, Thompson has denied having any legal woes and took to Facebook to defend herself, as noted by the New York Post in a separate report about the issue.
"For all inquiring minds no I’m not in trouble havent been in years at all," she wrote. Thompson said that the charges against her, which include assaulting police, are "OLD AS HELL" and said they were "fabricated" against her.
"Very much a active mother to my children everyday, work everyday, and very much in college and about to graduate with my B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Criminal Justice," Thompson wrote. She didn't mention that in 2019, she had her kids with her when she was busted for felony larceny. "I’m doing my thing!! I walk with my head held high cause I worked hard to get where I am," Thompson wrote.
While it seems that James's family can't stay out of trouble, the attorney general has been embroiled in the mortgage fraud that she claims is a political witch hunt, ABC News reported. James pursued President Donald Trump while he was running for office in a way that many believe surpassed her call of duty, and now she is attempting to get her own case dismissed by claiming Trump is retaliating.
Ironically, James slapped Trump with a massive $500 million fine for fraud based on his company's valuation of properties to obtain bank loans. It was a controversial case, both in its allegations and the penalty imposed, and it was ultimately dismissed. However, James now believes her very real scandal is simply a political war.
"This lawsuit and AG James’s outspoken criticism of the President triggered six years of targeted attacks. President Trump and his allies have used every insulting term in their vocabulary to deride AG James and call for criminal penalties in retaliation for the exercise of her rights and fulfillment of her statutory duties to fulfill her obligations as New York state’s attorney general," attorneys for James wrote in a legal filing.
They said that Trump's use of words like "scum," "criminal," "crooked," and "monster" demonstrates his particular disdain for James and proves that it was personal. Many believe that James and her ilk were going after Trump for political reasons, and now that they're on the other end of it, they don't like it.
James has held herself out to be the paragon of virtue while allegedly playing games for favorable mortgage rates. Although her family's legal woes are not her fault nor her responsibility, it adds another twist to this controversy that James seems to have brought on herself.