“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his ‘principal residence’ at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump has been using to try to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook,” Bloomberg reports.
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