"How the New Attack on Lisa Cook Gives Away Trump's Abuse of Power Game' [View all]

(TPM) "President Trump’s attack on yet another Black woman in public office gives away the game — if you were still harboring any doubt — about his corrupt use of mortgage fraud allegations to target Democrats."

"The origins of the bogus mortgage fraud allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), Sen. Adam Schiff (D), and now Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook, a Biden appointee who is the first Black woman on the Fed, have a patina of legitimacy. They have come from the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the form of criminal referrals, but don’t be fooled by that origin."

"The official in question is Bill Pulte. And the way he trumpeted the Cook allegations yesterday tells you all you need to know about the bad faith origins of the allegations in all three cases...Pulte is a 37-year-old MAGA influencer with 3 million followers on X. Before he was confirmed by the Senate to the FHFA position in March, he had had his own investment firm and served on the board of one of the country’s largest home construction companies, founded by his grandfather."

"Early yesterday morning, Pulte teased the Cook allegations on X. Within an hour, he had announced the criminal referral against Cook on his X account and later posted the criminal referral letter. For much of the day, Pulte was on X trolling Cook and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, a Trump nemesis. Pulte, the originator of the criminal referral, went so far as to publicly call for Cook’s resignation and declare that Trump has grounds to fire her for cause. Pulte predicted that the Trump DOJ would open an investigation of her, at one point tweeting: 'Lisa Cooked is cooked.' "

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