Donald Trump has successfully run for the Republican presidential nomination as a friend of the common man. His speeches are about standing up for people who’ve been victimized by the recession, free trade agreements, and marauding hordes of Mexican rapists. His voters—relative to other Republicans, though not to Americans as a whole—skew working-class. He sometimes suggests that he wants to raise taxes on rich people.

And yet. Trump’s fortune is derived from having inherited millions of dollars and a real-estate company from his father. His own recent business history is one of fraudulently preying on regular people. His actual tax plan involves massive, hugenormous breaks for people in his income bracket. And now, the New Republic reports, he’s named a national finance chairman who made a ton of money running a bank that, per TNR, repeatedly committed fraud in the course of foreclosing on struggling homeowners during the housing crisis. That individual is Steve Mnuchin, former chairman and primary owner of OneWest Bank. Here’s a fact about that institution’s business practices:

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