Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is preparing for a legal war with President Donald Trump after the president accused him of mortgage fraud. Schiff has created a legal defense fund as the Justice Department investigates the allegations. Trump has appointed former D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin as special attorney in the case.

Some of Merchants’ rise was powered by loans to a group of players now in hot water. These operators made fraudulent transactions

Martin, wearing a beige trench coat, visited the Clinton Hill brownstone just one week after being appointed by Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead parallel mortgage fraud probes into James and California Sen. Adam Schiff, The New York Post reported.

President Donald Trump’s political weaponization czar sent a letter urging New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign from office “as an act of good faith” four days after starting his mortgage fraud investigation of her.

Days after the Justice Department assigned its Weaponization Working Group to open an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, the group's director, Ed Martin, sent a letter calling for her resignation -- leapfrogging multiple steps federal prosecutors ordinarily undertake to determine whether the subject of an investigation engaged in criminal activity.