The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.

President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.” He called another “CROOKED” on Truth Social and pushed the attorney general to take action.

But years earlier, Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of, records show.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.

In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Let me explain how their minds work. They think, i get away with so much illegal shit & therefore there must be plenty of other liars like me doing this stuff, so I’ll accuse people I don’t like cause they surely are as corrupt. Every accusation is a confession with them.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    So fucking what? He’s successfully positioned himself above the law. It’s too late to focus on crimes and expect anything to change. He’s beyond the reach of the law now.