On Thursday, NBC News reported that President Donald Trump’s top housing official, Bill Pulte, had referred California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department for a potential federal criminal probe, alleging mortgage and tax fraud.
Swalwell has become the latest Trump critic to be hit with an investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud. Pulte previously referred Sen. Adam Schiff of California, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, to the Justice Department for investigation of the same crime.
In his first television interview after news of that probe broke, Swalwell told the co-hosts of “The Weeknight” that the allegations against him were false, “just like the allegations against Adam Schiff are false and Letitia James are false and Lisa Cook are false.”
“And a spoiler alert for you,” Swalwell continued, “there will be allegations next week against somebody that will be false.”
Swalwell said he wasn’t surprised to be targeted by Trump, because “no one has been a more vocal critic than me.” The congressman noted that he was pursuing “one of the only remaining lawsuits” against Trump for his role on Jan. 6, referring to a civil suit he filed in 2021 that accuses the president and his allies of inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“It’s not lost on me that we’ve begun to depose members of the administration, and so you can connect the dots there,” he said.








