Lisa Cook’s lawyer fires back at Bill Pulte: ‘They won’t succeed’

The attorney for Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook on Monday said President Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte “won’t succeed” in pursuing her prosecution on allegations of mortgage fraud.

After the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Trump’s efforts to oust Cook, both the president and Pulte, who is also acting Director of National Intelligence, promised to continue their legal campaign against her.

Abbe Lowell, who’s serving as legal counsel to Cook, said those efforts would ultimately fail.

“Do I think that there’s grounds to indict her? No. Do I think that any real prosecutor in America would present it? No. Do I think in a different era this could even be something that you and I would talk about? No,” Lowell said during a Monday appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”

“Do I think somebody that takes whatever Donald Trump does and does it, whether it used to........

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