Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to call two different houses his "principal residence" at the same time — a similar claim to the one that President Donald Trump cited when he tried to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook , according to a report Wednesday.

Documents show that on the same day in September 2007, Bessent agreed that homes in both Bedford Hills, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, each would be his principal residence, Bloomberg reported.

Cook signed mortgage agreements declaring that houses in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Atlanta were each her principal residences, according to prior reports. Cook signed those documents within two weeks of each other in summer 2021, before she was appointed to the Fed's Board.

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