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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/rep-eric-swalwell-seemingly-used-dc-   
   house-for-california-governor-campaign-launch/   
      
   WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) apparently used his DC home,   
   which is at the center of a mortgage and tax fraud investigation, in a   
   video announcing his California gubernatorial campaign.   
      
   Swalwell, 45, kicked off his run for the Golden State governor’s office on   
   Thursday night with a minute-long campaign video that pledged to “keep the   
   worst president in our history out of our homes, out of our streets and   
   out of our lives” and lower the cost of living.   
      
   But X users quickly saw something was amiss and began comparing photos of   
   the congressman’s $1.2 million Victorian-style bungalow in the nation’s   
   capital with screenshots from the campaign spot, leading some to conclude   
   that Swalwell had filmed a portion of his promise to “build a new   
   California” — in DC.   
      
      
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   Judging from the stairway banister and the kitchen island lights, Eric   
   Swalwell appears to have filmed his campaign launch video for California   
   governor at his primary residence in Washington, DC.   
      
   “Gavin Newsom’s film credits couldn’t even lure Eric Swalwell into   
   California to shoot [h]is campaign launch video for governor,” one X user   
   snarked in response to the post highlighting the similarities between   
   public photos of the home’s interior before it was purchased and   
   screenshots from the congressman’s video.   
      
   The California Constitution requires candidates for governor and   
   lieutenant governor to have maintained residency for at least five years   
   in the state, but Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office has said its   
   “legal opinion” is “that this provision violates the U.S. Constitution and   
   is unenforceable.”   
      
   A Post review of public records did not show Swalwell currently owning any   
   property in the Golden State and, in fact, revealed that the congressman   
   hasn’t been associated with any addresses there for at least a decade,   
   around the time he began gearing up to run for Congress.   
      
   Swalwell enters a crowded open primary field to succeed term-limited Gov.   
   Gavin Newsom in 2026, with his former House Democratic colleague Katie   
   Porter leading the pack with 15.7% backing from Californians, according to   
   the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator.   
      
   Other Democrats in the race have yet to crack double-digit support,   
   including former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra,   
   former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and billionaire Tom Steyer,   
   who just launched his own gubernatorial campaign on Wednesday.   
      
   Declared Republican candidates Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside   
   County, and Steve Hilton, a British-American political commentator, are   
   currently registering 13% and 11.3% support, respectively, per RealClear’s   
   early average of surveys.   
      
   Steyer and Swalwell both failed to make it to Super Tuesday during the   
   2020 Democratic presidential primary, having abandoned their campaigns.   
      
   Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred Swalwell to   
   the Department of Justice for potential prosecution on Nov. 12, alleging   
   that the California Democrat improperly claimed the DC home as a primary   
   residence, a source familiar with the referral previously told The Post.   
      
   That declaration allowed the anti-Trump pol to get millions of dollars’   
   worth of loans and refinancing, the source noted, which could constitute   
   mortgage fraud, insurance fraud and state and local tax fraud, among other   
   charges.   
      
   FHFA’s inspector general is also investigating the alleged mortgage fraud,   
   the source added.   
      
   The six-bedroom, five-and-a-half bathroom home, located in DC’s historic   
   Eckington neighborhood just a mile’s walk from the US Capitol, had most of   
   its original 1920s interior ripped out and replaced with a modern and more   
   spacious look before Swalwell bought it in 2020, records show.   
      
   Swalwell sued Trump two months after the breach of the Capitol by a MAGA   
   mob on Jan. 6, 2021. He had previously served as one of the impeachment   
   managers for the House Democrat-led articles that accused the 45th   
   president of inciting the riot, but a Republican-led Senate acquitted him,   
   in part since he was out of office.   
      
   In a statement following news of his criminal referral, Swalwell did not   
   deny wrongdoing but vowed to “not stop speaking out against the president   
   and speaking up for Californians” — or abandon his lawsuit.   
      
   California gubernatorial candidates can’t be convicted of felonies   
   involving “any bribe, the embezzlement of public money, extortion or theft   
   of public money, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any of those crimes,”   
   according to the California secretary of state’s webpage.   
      
   The referral made him the fourth prominent Democrat to face a mortgage   
   fraud investigation initiated by Pulte.   
      
   Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), New York Attorney General Letitia James and   
   Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook all made allegedly false statements   
   about either second homes or rental properties being their primary homes,   
   letting them get more favorable loan terms.   
      
   A federal grand jury handed up a criminal indictment of James on Oct. 9 in   
   Alexandria, Va., for bank fraud and false statements to a financial   
   institution in connection with a $109,600 loan she obtained for a   
   residence in Norfolk, allowing her to pocket an extra $19,000 or so.   
      
   A separate grand jury in Maryland as of August was considering bringing   
   charges against Schiff, but it has yet to result in an indictment.   
      
   Trump fired Cook from the Fed after news broke of the DOJ’s criminal   
   investigation into her rental properties, but she has appealed her lawsuit   
   for wrongful termination to the US Supreme Court.   
      
   Reps for Swalwell’s congressional office and campaign did not respond to   
   requests for comment.   
      
      
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