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Trump attacks Adam Schiff over 15 year old mortgage non-controversy [1]

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Date: 2025-07-15

Trump has been grasping at straws on how to tackle enemies that are immune. Adam Schiff got a pardon from Joe Biden in the last days before leaving office because he knew that Schiff was on Trump's enemies list for having been on the January 6th Committee. Trump has brought up a Maryland versus California main residency mortgage qualification that was taken care of during a House ethics inquiry in 2009.

Trump tried to use the same tactic against New York Attorney General Letitia James, but that was quashed when her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, put together all of the documentation showing she knew she made a mistake and immediately corrected it at the time.

Trump will never bring up Sen. Tommy Tuberville's problem that he really lives in Florida while being a Senator for Alabama. You only have to live in Alabama for one day to be a Senator. But he's running for Governor in Alabama now, and you have to live in Alabama for seven years to qualify. Umm, he has a problem. There are a slew of other Republicans who faced problems of residency in one state and office in another including Rick Santorum, Mehmet Oz, Pat Roberts, and Herschel Walker while he lived in Texas but was running for Senator in Georgia.

Schiff admitted the mistake in 2009 at the House hearing, and that was the end of it until 2023, when the story reappeared. It was at the same time the Republican House voted to censure Schiff for having been on the January 6th Committee. His response to that was that he considered it a badge of honor.

Schiff does not take a property tax exemption for his Maryland home, but he does for condo in Burbank. It saves him $70 a year. But this is about the mortgages. The last refinance was in 2013. If there was anything to make of this, it would have happened 2 years ago. But it didn't. And if the last transaction date it correct, and something was really wrong, it's beyond the statue of limitations. In 2020, Schiff refinanced the mortgage and indicated that it was his second home.

Fannie Mae does investigate various forms of mortgage financial fraud, but even if they found something on Schiff, it's too old.

Trump apparently gave Fannie Mae a list of his enemies and told their Financial Crimes Division to find out anything they could.

"I have always suspected Shifty Adam Shiff was a scam artist."

This is going to be unhinged. He starts off by misspelling Schiff's name.

"And now I learned that Fannie Mae's Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of mortgage fraud."

Donald, if that's true, you just engaged in an illegal leak of confidential information.

There is no length of residency requirement for anyone to run for Congress from California, nor is there one to run for Senator. So it just doesn't matter whether Schiff claimed the Maryland home to be his prime residence or not. It doesn't matter whether he claimed his Burbank condo as his prime residence or not. Just like Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, all he needed to do was to be in California living in a building for one day to run for Congressman or Senator.

"I always knew Adam Schiff was a CROOK."

The most corrupt politician possibly in the history of the Earth, calls someone else a crook. Projection.

Obviously, again, Trump is using confidential Fannie Mae data with the exact transaction dates. Everything was known about this when it was brought up in 2023. Fannie Mae knew about it then. It's just all the ammunition Trump can acquire. The only thing he can do to discredit Adam Schiff.

"Mortgage Fraud is a very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice."

Mortgage fraud. Hmm. Didn't you get caught for that in New York to the tune of the initial fine of $354 million, now probably $500 million? Oh, worse, insurance fraud.

So, Donald is grasping for straws, most likely plastic. Once again, he is misusing his authority as the President of the United States to further his own ends. Next will be Schiff's tax returns, where Trump is on shaky ground on his own. Point that finger and three fingers are pointing right back at you, Donald.

It's another day, another crime and misuse of power by Donald Trump. The items to be listed in impeachment articles just keep piling up.

Adam Schiff will, of course, be forced to respond to this idiocy. He wore his censure as a badge of honor. He will respond to Trump with humor and derision. Trump will crumble and try again, and Schiff will get the better of him still another time.

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