Trump had two "principal residences" in Palm Beach in 7 weeks:

[applegrove]

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 2025-12-08T14:06:39.229Z

[malaise]

1. He has done everything that he accuses others of doing. It's always projection

for Donvict

[UTUSN]

2. knr

[Mr.Bee]

3. Typical.

Okay for me, not for thee.

[SeattleVet]

4. A LOT more in the article.

Every accusation is a confession.

[MissouriDem47]

5. But It Was TACO

It was TACO that was found guilty of 34 counts of mortgage fraud.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. MaddowBlog-Two Trump mortgages have same feature that led to charges for several presidential foes

“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice,” one expert said.

Remember over the summer, when Trump urged reporters to start digging through mortgage records, looking for officials who might’ve committed fraud?

Months later, it’s hard not to wonder whether he regrets issuing such a challenge. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-08T18:26:44.920Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/two-trump-mortgages-have-same-feature-that-led-to-charges-for-several-presidential-foes

In fact, when reporters started checking out the records, they discovered that some members of the White House Cabinet had allegedly done the same thing Trump and Pulte accused their targets of doing.

This week, the allegations took on even greater significance when ProPublica reported that the president himself appears to have done the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.” From the report:

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.

Oops....

Trump, of course, is the first convicted felon ever to serve in the Oval Office, having been found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of the Republican’s hush money scandal.

As for whether the president regrets challenging journalists to “go check out” mortgage records to look for potential wrongdoing, the Republican has not yet commented on that aspect of the latest revelations. Watch this space.