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BumRushDaShow

(165,643 posts) Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:00 PM Dec 8

Trump Allegedly Committed Same 'Mortgage Fraud' His Admin Prosecuted Letitia James For: Report

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 8th, 2025, 12:29 pm

President Donald Trump allegedly committed the same kind of mortgage fraud his administration has prosecuted New York Attorney General Letitia James for according to a new ProPublica report.

Trump has accused several of his political enemies, including James and Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, of committing “deceitful and potentially criminal” fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on loan applications. Both James and Cook have denied wrongdoing. The charges against James were dismissed over a procedural error.

But according to the nonprofit investigative outlet, records show that “Trump did the very thing he’s accusing his enemies of.”

“In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a ‘Bermuda style’ home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence,” the ProPublica report said. “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.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-allegedly-committed-same-mortgage-fraud-his-admin-prosecuted-letitia-james-for-report/

Link to ProPublica REPORT - Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

Of course he did. Every "accusation" is an "admission".

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Trump Allegedly Committed Same 'Mortgage Fraud' His Admin Prosecuted Letitia James For: Report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 8 OP

Smearing names and reputations is the only goal of this administration Mr. Ected Dec 8 #1

I'm guessing that Trump committed about every type of fraud there is. Jim__ Dec 8 #2

He's still on the hook BumRushDaShow Dec 8 #3

Exactly. GB_RN Dec 8 #11

C'mon! So unfair! There IS a difference. Kid Berwyn Dec 8 #4

So WHEN he is gonna do the time???? n/t slightlv Dec 8 #6

Apparently, pedo the felon is too old for that now... Justice matters. Dec 8 #9

How long will the MSM give this? Five minutes and then POOF,never heard about again? Bengus81 Dec 8 #5

MaddowBlog-Two Trump mortgages have same feature that led to charges for several presidential foes LetMyPeopleVote Dec 8 #7

If asked about it by any reporter... Justice matters. Dec 8 #10

He swore to uphold the Constiution. twodogsbarking Dec 8 #8

Mr. Ected

(9,713 posts)

1. Smearing names and reputations is the only goal of this administration

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:09 PM

Dec 8

They couldn't care less if the claims are meritorious.

To MAGA, it will forever be prima facie evidence that the accused were guilty.

Oddly, when their beloved leader is the defendant, their thought processes move in the other direction.

Cognitive dissonance sucks.

Jim__

(15,064 posts)

2. I'm guessing that Trump committed about every type of fraud there is.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:09 PM

Dec 8

BumRushDaShow

(165,643 posts)

3. He's still on the hook

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:28 PM

Dec 8

for both criminal fraud (D.A. Bragg's case) and civil fraud (A.G. James' case) in NY.

GB_RN

(3,508 posts)

11. Exactly.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:19 PM

Dec 8

Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent was found GUILTY on the NYC fraud charges. Nothing “alleged” about it.

Kid Berwyn

(22,889 posts)

4. C'mon! So unfair! There IS a difference.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:38 PM

Dec 8

Unlike the trumped up charges against Ms. James, Trump actually committed the crime.

slightlv

(7,438 posts)

6. So WHEN he is gonna do the time???? n/t

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:41 PM

Dec 8

Justice matters.

(9,357 posts)

9. Apparently, pedo the felon is too old for that now...

Reply to slightlv (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:32 PM

Dec 8

Home confined or elderly home confined with a strait jacket...

Bengus81

(9,805 posts)

5. How long will the MSM give this? Five minutes and then POOF,never heard about again?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 05:40 PM

Dec 8

Let's just see.........

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,820 posts)

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

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:49 PM

Dec 8

“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 mightâ€™ve committed fraud?

Months later, itâ€™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.

Justice matters.

(9,357 posts)

10. If asked about it by any reporter...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #7)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:37 PM

Dec 8

The abominable monster will say it's "fake news" and insult the reporter, and that will be it.

"Law and Order" Republicans in Congress will not do anything about it. #Cowards

twodogsbarking

(17,569 posts)

8. He swore to uphold the Constiution.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 08:42 PM

Dec 8

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