THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent Trump’s Corrupt Firing of Lisa Cook Backfires as Brutal New Poll Hits
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Sep 9, 2025 
Matt Ford, a Staff writer at New Republic focusing on legal affairs, dives into Trump's underhanded attempts to oust Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. He sheds light on the absurdity of the allegations against Cook, revealing how they backfire with conflicting evidence against Trump's officials. Public sentiment is strongly against Trump's tactics, with a CBS poll showing significant disapproval of his interference in the Fed. Ford also discusses the potential legal ramifications and historical precedents that could influence the outcome of this political drama.
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Mortgage Scans As Political Weapon
- Trump's allies are rummaging through opponents' mortgages to generate pretexts for DOJ referrals.
- That constitutes selective, politically motivated targeting rather than legitimate policy enforcement.
Reporters Found Hypocrisy In Mortgages
- ProPublica and Reuters found multiple Trump officials and relatives of William Pulte with similar mortgage patterns.
- That discovery turned the anti-Cook campaign into an embarrassing example of hypocrisy and buffoonery.
Historic Echoes Of Financial Scrutiny
- The mortgage-fishing evokes Watergate-style abuses like political scrutiny of financial records.
- Such investigative targeting of private financial data without a rational predicate is an abuse of power.