Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has come under scrutiny over home-loan filings similar to the discrepancies being used by the Trump administration to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Weeks after he reportedly threatened to punch top housing finance official Bill Pulte “in the f—---- face”, Bessent has been slugged with a mortgage-related punch of his own, after reportedly agreeing to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time.

The conflicting agreements, first reported by Bloomberg, are similar to the contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump, with Pulte’s help, has been using to try to oust Cook from her role on the board of the central bank.

And while there’s no evidence of wrongdoing, the case nonetheless demonstrates that discrepancie

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