Surprise surprise…
NOT
Of course, they were lying about Lisa Cook.
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
By Chris Prentice and Marisa Taylor
September 13, 20254:27 PM CDT
Updated September 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) – A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks before she completed the purchase and shows that she had told the lender that the Atlanta property wouldn’t be her primary residence. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence, two independent real-estate experts said.Reuters was unable to reach Cook for comment. She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing regarding her properties, which also include a home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an investment property in Massachusetts.
Administration officials led by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, have used mortgage documents from her Atlanta and Michigan properties to accuse Cook of claiming both as her “primary residence.” The allegedly false claims of residence, which could improve mortgage and tax implications for a homeowner, led Pulte to refer the matter to the Department of Justice, prompting a federal investigation and an order by President Donald Trump to dismiss her.Cook, who remains at the Federal Reserve, has sued the president to resist her dismissal. Reuters was unable to determine whether Pulte or administration officials are aware of Cook’s Atlanta loan estimate. Spokespeople at the FHFA, the agency led by Pulte, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The documents cited by Pulte, opens new tab include standardized federal mortgage paperwork which stipulates that each loan obtained by Cook for the Atlanta and Michigan properties is meant for a “primary residence.” But documentation reviewed by Reuters for the Atlanta home, filed with a court in Georgia’s Fulton County, clearly says the stipulation exists “unless Lender otherwise agrees in writing.” The loan estimate, a document prepared by the credit union, states “Property Use: Vacation Home.”The document appears to help Cook’s case, said two real-estate experts who aren’t involved in representing her. That’s because it indicates that during the loan-application process, she told the lender she intended to use the property as a vacation home.
Aaron Fritschner
@fritschner.bsky.socialFollow
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.Bill Pulte’s accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
http://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed…
https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lyoan63sss2x
Lisa DeNell Cook (born 1964) is an American economist who was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. She is the first black woman to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, she was elected in January 2022 to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.[2] She was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[3]
Early life and education
Cook, born 1964,[17] is one of three daughters of Baptist hospital chaplain Payton B. Cook and Georgia College professor of nursing Mary Murray Cook, and was raised in Milledgeville, Georgia.[18] As a child, she was involved in desegregating schools in Georgia, and still has physical scars from being attacked by segregationists when she enrolled in a formerly white school.[19] She is a cousin of chemist Percy Julian, the first African American to head a major corporate laboratory.[19]She earned a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy (magna cum laude) from Spelman College in 1986, where she was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She proceeded to St Hilda’s College, Oxford, as Spelman’s first Marshall Scholar where she earned another B.A. in Philosophy, politics and economics in 1988. She took courses towards a master’s degree in philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. After a mountain climbing trip on Mount Kilimanjaro with an economist, Cook began to seriously consider pursuing a PhD in economics.[20][5] She temporarily used a wheelchair due to a car accident, when she entered graduate school.[18] Cook earned a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 under the guidance of Barry Eichengreen and David Romer.[21] Her dissertation focused on the underdevelopment of the banking system in czarist and post-Soviet Russia.[18][21]
Ed Krassenstein
@EdKrassen
BREAKING: Oklahoma State Superintendent
@RyanWalters_
just announced that every single high school in the state will now be required to have a Turning Point USA chapter.
Ask yourself: how would the right react if a Democratic superintendent forced every school to host a Black Lives Matter club, a Sunrise Movement chapter, an ANTIFA club, or a Planned Parenthood student group? They would call it indoctrination — and they’d be right.
This is deeply concerning. Public schools should not be turned into mandatory recruitment hubs for any political organization.
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1970595596890210451
WITH BACK PAY!!
NBC News
@NBCNews
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/1970911258435022973
FOR WHAT?
FOR WHAT?
Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
Former FBI Director James Comey, for years the target of President Trump’s ire, is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a prosecutor who opposed bringing the case was recently fired, three sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC.
The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment—if it goes forward–will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information. The five year statute of limitations on that charge would lapse on Tuesday.
with
@CarolLeonnig
https://x.com/DilanianMSNBC/status/1970929330042593404
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑
@WonderKing82
Republicans lie on Democrats.
Independents lie on Democrats.
Third Party lie on Democrats.
Media lie on Democrats.
And we have some fake Democrats who use our funds and platform to lie on other Democrats. Russian designed it this way since 2015.
https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1970910845296312809
Candidly Tiff
@tify330
Tell us you didn’t read the book, without telling us Michael. Embarrassing to even open his mouth to say this dumb shit. FYI he hasn’t worked for Hakeem since 2020.
Black women can never speak their truth without some Black man tearing them down. STFU!
https://x.com/tify330/status/1970820288544702646
Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
It’s interesting how conservatives have made all Black folks out to be leftists and Democrats. It shows me you don’t know anything about us.
These Black students weren’t about to “debate” people who are telling to them to their face they are inferior. That’s not a political party thing. That’s a dignity thing.
https://x.com/jemelehill/status/1970858867040084384
Miso J. Blige
@Queen_Miso
Coming on an HBCU campus with these signs isn’t indicative of ppl who are trying to “civilly debate”. These are ppl who went out of their way to deliberately ANTAGONIZE black students so cut the bullshit.
https://x.com/Queen_Miso/status/1970854321123369127
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
Two ICE detainees were killed in a shooting at a Dallas facility, a Homeland Security official says. A third is in serious condition. Follow live updates:
https://x.com/cnnbrk/status/1970896546339107009
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
…”The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the truth.” If they accept, turn the interaction into a performance designed to generate viral clips and false legitimacy. It’s a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposition that has nothing to do with genuine intellectual discourse.
The fundamental issue with “debate me bro” culture isn’t just that it’s obnoxious, it’s that it creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling. When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis.”…
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
The White House has placed a photo of an auto-pen signature instead of a portrait of former President Biden on the “Presidential Walk of Fame”
https://x.com/yashar/status/1970905244357017730
Olga Nesterova
@onestpress
Character.
Macron, President of France, was forced to walk NYC streets after cops blocked him for Trump’s motorcade, despite him literally calling Trump asking to cross the street.
So he walked around. Went to a coffee shop, took pics with baristas and NYers. No tantrum.
https://x.com/onestpress/status/1970874022545297464
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
NASHVILLE – 2 guys in Red MAGA hats showed up on HBCU TSU’s campus uninvited, permitless, and set up a table with signs railing against DEI & undocumented immigrants. Students confronted them without violence. Police moved them. NAACP: “An intentional effort to antagonize”
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1970824478935699876
Good Afternoon, Everyone 😊😊😊