Why are all these leading Democrats suddenly facing mortgage fraud charges? Guess who's behind it [View all]
Michael Hiltzik
Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," I am capable of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
But my credulity is strained past the breaking point by the charges of federal mortgage fraud laid against three leading adversaries of Donald Trump—Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James, and (most recently) Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump claimed to fire for cause Monday.
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What gets me, and should get you, is the flimsiness of these accusations despite how loudly they've been bruited about on the MAGA right as though they're signals of profound moral turpitude on the part of the targets, and how they all originated in the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is led by Trump acolyte and sycophant William J. Pulte, in private life a big homebuilder.
The important question, in the view of Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law, is who is driving these investigations and levying these accusations, and whether they reflect an "enemies list" Pulte has compiled on Donald Trump's behalf. I asked the FHFA to respond to Levitin's questions but received no response.
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