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Before President Donald Trump appointed him to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte was best known to the public as the scion of a homebuilding empire and an extremely online investor who hawked various meme stocks and cryptocurrencies on Twitter. In government, however, Pulte has gained more notoriety as an eager Trump hatchet man , using his office to comb through public officials’ mortgage records and weaponize hazy details against those deemed to be enemies of the president—including, most recently, Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, as part of the president’s mission to compromise the integrity of the United States’ long-i

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