Trump Accuses Adam Schiff of Mortgage Fraud
Trump’s latest attack on Schiff is less a discrete allegation than a continuation of a long-running political war.
By invoking “mortgage fraud,” he isn’t just questioning Schiff’s ethics;
he is inviting the public to imagine hidden corruption in the
very ordinary act of a lawmaker buying a second home near Washington.
The lack of public evidence has not stopped the claim from ricocheting through partisan media,
where innuendo often matters more than documentation.
Schiff’s rebuttal leans on constitutional nuance and the messy realities of modern political life,
where members of Congress routinely juggle multiple residences and complicated financial arrangements.
Legally, proving fraud would require far more than a controversial “primary residence” designation.
Politically, however, the bar is lower: suspicion alone can be weaponized. In today’s climate,
the accusation itself becomes the punishment, and the real casualty is any shared sense of what counts as truth.
