Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume is calling out Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who allegedly broke the same law as Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, but without his job being threatened over it by President Donald Trump.
Trump announced Monday that he was firing Cook for alleged mortgage fraud by making “false statements on one or more” agreements. A financial disclosure form for 2024 listed two of her homes as personal residences, loans for which can carry lower interest rates.
Cook challenged her termination with a lawsuit on Thursday, the same day the news broke that Paxton, whom Trump has repeatedly praised publicly over the years, had apparently committed the same infraction as her. The Associated Press cited a review of public records.
“Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates,” the news organization reported Thursday.
Hume reacted to the matter on social media.
