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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump's Housing Regulator Goes After His Political Opponents

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, takes to social media to accuse Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud. Pulte has also made similar criminal referrals for Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Aren't investigations supposed to happen before announcements, and didn't Donald Trump promise to end lawfare? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.0

The Trump administration's housing regulator accuses a Federal Reserve governor of mortgage fraud.

0:45.3

Is this another spin down the lawfare spiral?

0:48.4

Meantime, a New York appeals court throws out a penalty against Donald Trump of nearly half a billion dollars in Attorney

0:55.5

General Letitia James' fraud case against the president. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the

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Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and Kim

1:07.6

Strassel. Bill Pulte is the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the chairman of Fannie Mae

1:15.3

and Freddie Mac, and perhaps also a mega-political enforcer.

1:19.8

President Trump is on a campaign to pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates,

1:24.5

and now he has the opportunity to call for the resignation of Fed Governor Lisa Cook

1:29.8

after an investigation by Pulte's agency.

1:34.0

Here is what Bill Pulte said on social media today.

1:37.6

On June 18, 2021, Lisa Cook signed mortgage documents identifying her Michigan residence

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as her primary residence.

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