Trump’s Mortgage Attacks and Kessler on Weight Loss
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Trump has fired Fed governor Lisa Cook for lying on her mortgage, part of a broader pattern of using mortgage fraud as a political weapon while allies skate by. Former FDA head David Kessler joins again to explain how GLP-1 drugs reshape the fight against obesity and what they mean for health long term. In the Spiel, the spectacle of Laura Loomer’s chaotic influence.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, August 26, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:08.0 | It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:10.1 | And the president is moving to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. |
| 0:14.2 | Why? She lied on her mortgage. |
| 0:17.9 | Turns out a lot of people, who Donald Trump doesn't like lie on their mortgage. |
| 0:23.2 | He's going against New York Attorney General Letitia James for the same reason. And in July, |
| 0:29.1 | Trump accused Senator Adam Schiff for lying on his mortgage. Now, there are other people |
| 0:34.6 | who have lied on their mortgage that don't come up so much. |
| 0:38.7 | Ken Paxton, who is the Attorney General of Texas and is challenging Senator John |
| 0:44.2 | Cornyn, Paxton being a right-wing firebrand. |
| 0:47.7 | He has claimed three houses as his primary residence. |
| 0:51.8 | That is not how primary works. |
| 0:54.3 | But you know what else doesn't work? |
| 0:56.1 | What Marilyn J. Mosby, the former Baltimore City State Attorney, that's the DA, what she was |
| 1:01.7 | trying to do, she was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement, which one? |
| 1:06.2 | Her primary one, I suppose. |
| 1:08.5 | She was convicted of making a false application in two counts of perjury |
| 1:13.5 | about her mortgage. I guess when it comes to mortgages and liar loans, everyone's doing it, |
| 1:21.6 | certainly everyone seems vulnerable. We'll see how it all plays out. One court in the land overturned a massive |
| 1:29.4 | judgment about, among other things, mortgage fraud. That was the New York State Appeals Court. |
| 1:35.1 | And the case was State v. Donald Trump. Donald Trump lied on many mortgages. In this case, |
| 1:42.3 | he was vindicated. But his overall theory of the case might have |
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