00:00Trump DOJ targets another Dem for mortgage fraud.
00:04The Trump administration has targeted another Democrat known for criticizing the president.
00:09Representative Eric Swalwell is reportedly next in line and is now facing an investigation for mortgage fraud.
00:15Bill Pult, President Donald Trump's top housing official, has referred Eric Swalwell to the DOJ
00:21for a federal investigation into alleged mortgage and tax fraud involving his Washington, D.C., home.
00:28MSNBC's Lisa Rubin noted that Swalwell's case is complicated because many members of Congress split their lives between Washington, D.C. and their home states,
00:37making questions about primary residents legally and politically tricky.
00:41Rubin pointed out that Swalwell's investigation is similar to Senator Adam Schiff's.
00:46He is also facing a federal inquiry over allegations that he misrepresented his primary residence.
00:51That is the same allegation that has been leveled against Senator Adam Schiff, also of California,
00:58and also a long-term political adversary of the president's, she added.
01:02The reporter suggested that the timing of the probe raises questions about the administration's motives.
01:07It's not lost on me that both Congressman Swalwell and Senator Schiff were members of the impeachment committees,
01:13or the groups of impeachment managers who went to the Senate on each of Trump's two impeachment trials during his first term, she said.
01:20Rubin also noted that Swalwell has filed a lawsuit against Trump for the damage caused from the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
01:29Swalwell posted on X, calling himself the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade.
01:35Like James Comey and John Bolton, Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook, Letitia James and the dozens more to come,
01:43I refuse to live in fear in what was once the freest country in the world.
01:47Of course, I will not end my lawsuit against Trump,
01:49and I will not stop speaking out against the president and speaking up for Californians, he said.
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