"A ray of sunshine has suddenly pierced the encircling gloom"

VDARE President Lydia Brimelow On Three Trump Moves That Have Revolutionized The Struggle Against NYAG Letitia James

Peter Brimelow writes: My wife Lydia Brimelow, president and only remaining staff member of the VDARE Foundation, has just issued this statement:

Statement by Lydia Brimelow

Completely unexpectedly, the Trump Administration has just taken three steps that could revolutionize VDARE’s multi-year struggle to protect its writers and donors from being divulged to New York State Attorney General Letitia James as part of her unconstitutional and ruinous “investigation” of us.

1] Trump’s Justice Department has appointed a Special Prosecutor to probe Letitia James’ widely-reported pattern of personal mortgage fraud, going back 40 years.

Mortgage fraud is a serious offense, especially for a lawyer. Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore prosecutor notorious for trying to jail police officers after the 2015 death of Freddy Gray, has been convicted of it and is now facing disbarment.

More importantly, the common law principle falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus ("false in one thing, false in all’) means any Letitia James statement can now be viewed with suspicion—specifically, her lies to courts about VDARE.

(Sample MSM report: Letitia James and Adam Schiff Mortgage Fraud: Special Prosecutor Ed Martin Leads Historic Probe, Federal Charges.com, August 14, 2025)

2] In a dramatic new development, the Justice Department has subpoenaed Letitia James as part of a federal grand jury investigation into Letitia James’ 2023 civil fraud case against Trump and his companies.

The issue: did James’ abusive prosecution constitute a “deprivation of Trump's constitutional rights”?

Her prosecution resulted in an incredible $454 million judgement against Trump. (He has appealed).

Since James ran for election explicitly vowing to find some reason—any reason—to prosecute Trump, it obviously cannot be denied that she weaponized the justice system against him.

Similarly with Letitia James’ politically-motived prosecution of the National Rifle Association, which is now also the subject of Justice Department subpoenas.

Of course we’re a little wistful that the Justice Department did not include VDARE in this wave of subpoenas.

Because the pattern of deprivation of constitutional rights in our case is exactly the same. In 2022, just when Letitia James’ “investigation” of VDARE was getting started, her minion Rick Sawyer explicitly boasted to the Anti-Defamation League that, although “Hate Speech” (i.e. opinions on immigration that Letitia James dislikes), was indeed protected by the U.S. constitution, it was fortunately possible to suppress it through “massive investigations…without even going to court,”

Which is exactly what Letitia James has been doing to us.

Moreover, unlike President Trump and the NRA, we have not been charged—let alone convicted, of anything. So our case is even stronger.

So we are still hoping. And the prize is enormous. The penalties for federal Civil Rights violations can be devastating.

This new development offers us the possibility, not just of vindication, but of restitution.

(Sample MSM report: Justice Dept. Abruptly Escalates Pressure Campaign on a Trump Adversary, By Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Santul Nerkar, August 8, 2025).

3] In an August 7 Executive Order, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans,” the Trump Administration banned political discrimination by banks and other financial institutions.

If this had been done in Trump’s first term—as was originally proposed—VDARE.com might well well still be functioning.

VDARE was driven to suspend by the costs of the relentless lawfare waged by Letitia James. But it also had extraordinary problems with Cancel Culture, especially in the last years of its life. The final straw was losing our ability to process credit card donations. The issue turned out to be, not the payment processors themselves—thus the heroic Andrew Torba’s GabPay was always willing to work with us—but the banks they relied upon. It was those banks that compelled the payment processors to drop us, apparently under pressure from the Federal government.

As we read this Executive Order, banks will now actually be obliged to contact and reinstate clients they had previously rejected.

(White House Executive Order: Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans, August 7, 2025)

We are ecstatic to see this much-needed action.

And I am trying, with the VDARE Foundation board, to figure out what it all means.

Of course, replacing this one piece of the puzzle won’t put VDARE.com back together again. But if nothing else, if we can secure merchant services, it may allow us to sell tickets so that we can restart conferences at the Berkeley Springs Castle—which we were hoping to do, perhaps by next spring.

There’s a lot to process here.

But the fundamental point: a ray of sunshine has suddenly pierced the encircling gloom.

We’re profoundly grateful for this—and to VDARE.com’s friends, for their loyal and heartwarming support throughout our ordeal.

I beg you all to continue helping us. The end, and perhaps even redemption, may be in sight.