Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume called out Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly lying on a mortgage application to secure better rates—the same infraction President Donald Trump has accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of.
Trump ally Paxton and his now-estranged wife, Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, allegedly signed off on mortgage documents listing their three homes as their primary residence to secure better rates, according to a July 24 report from the Associated Press.
“This is the same thing Fed Governor Lisa Cook did,” Hume wrote on X Thursday, including a link to the AP report. “It will be interesting to see how those saying she deserved to be fired react to this news.”
Scandal-prone Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in 2023 for bribery,