The Setup: Two Homes, One Identity Crisis Let’s start with the facts. In 2007, Scott Bessent—then a private sector player, now Treasury Secretary—agreed to two mortgages, one in Bedford Hills, NY and another in Provincetown, MA. On paper, both were listed as “principal residences.” That’s the exact kind of double-dipping that President Trump used to justify firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook. Cook? She signed off on two mortgages in 2021—one in Ann Arbor, the other in Atlanta—each marked as her primary residence. The timing? Within two weeks of each other. Pretty suspect on the surface. But here’s where the gears start grinding. Bessent’s bank, Bank of America, came forward to say they were fully awarethat both homes were actually second…
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