The Trump administration has been working hard to gin up some sort of criminal charges against Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, settling on the now-familiar approach of declaring that he committed mortgage fraud.
Except it looks a lot like there is not actually any fraud.
Instrumental in all of this harassment is Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump’s loyal attack dog who somehow always finds fraud committed by the person Trump is targeting.
Pulte is arguably one of the worst people in this administration, a slumlord who got his job by sucking up to Trump on X. But he’s proven to be extremely morally flexible, which is always an advantage in the Trump administration.
Earlier this month, Pulte made a criminal referral to the Justice Depa

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