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September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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One trademark of an authoritarian regime is the use of the legal system to target political opponents. Bill Pulte, a Trump appointee who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has been using his position to concoct accusations of mortgage fraud against Letitia James, Adam Schiff and now Cook.
One wonders how much digging into Cook’s financial records, and those of other Federal Reserve members, was made to come up with the charges. Pulte is also the source of the complaints against Schiff and James. His primary activities appear to be to use weaponize public power to lead harassment and intimidation campaigns against public officials. Greg Sargent has been writing about how unusual and dubious Pulte’s practices have been in targeting Schiff. Even if the accused are ultimately absolved of any wrongdoing, the legal threats of investigation by the DOJ are potentially ruinous. Adam Schiff started a legal defense fund to deal with the accusations. Guilt or innocence matters less than the inherent vulnerability that comes from an unethical government doing all it can to destroy you.
August 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM