Feds Find Schiff Likely Committed Mortgage Fraud, Trump Says

If you see Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., refusing to sit down, it is probably because his tuchus is sore from his words coming back to bite him in the backside.

“No one is above the law,” Schiff has been fond of crowing in his numerous attempts to tie President Donald Trump up in bogus lawfare. Schiff desperately advocated to put Trump behind bars over the Stormy Daniels lawsuit.

“No one is above the law.”

When you say things like that, you better make sure your own house is clean. Or at least your mortgage papers are honest. But it looks like Schiff has run afoul of the law.

In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump announced that Schiff had been investigated by Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes division, which found Schiff may have committed mortgage fraud for more than a decade after he refinanced one of his homes — the one in Maryland, not the one in California. According to Trump, from 2009 to 2020, Schiff allegedly declared the Maryland home his primary residence “to get a cheaper mortgage and to rip off America,” Trump wrote. “Mortgage Fraud is very serious and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice.”  

The Federalist asked Fannie Mae’s Financial Crime team for more detail, but a communications person said in an email, “We respectfully decline comment.”  

It is not the first time the issue of Schiff’s claims about his primary residence has come up. The difference now is that it has been criminally investigated. It was widely reported in 2023 — even by CNN — that Schiff claimed both his Maryland and California homes as primary residences.

“Adam’s California and Maryland addresses have been listed as primary residences for loan purposes because they are both occupied throughout the year and to distinguish them from a vacation property,” Marisol Samayoa, a spokeswoman for Schiff’s campaign at that time, told CNN.

“His spokesperson also told CNN the properties were both claimed as primary residences for loan purposes,” CNN reported.

That is cheating. The CNN piece also noted Schiff had posted a photo of himself in Maryland on the day of a primary election in 2022 wearing an “I voted” sticker. His spokeswoman said he voted in California by mail. But what is to stop him from voting in both places, if he fraudulently calls both homes his primary residence?  

Schiff is not known for honesty. In 2023 the U.S. House censured him for “misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected member of the House.” The censure called for an ethics investigation into Schiff’s “falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.”

Schiff pushed the bogus Russia collusion hoax. And in 2019, he read into the congressional record an imagined script of a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that made Trump sound like a gangster. California voters responded to his lies by giving the then-House representative a promotion to Senator.

Schiff called Trump’s post a “baseless attempt at political retribution,” in a responding post Tuesday.  

Schiff has never felt real consequences for lying in Congress. The censure? Meaningless.

It is time to throw the book at him, an appropriate response since that is the treatment he has long prescribed for others.