Eric Swalwell Blasts Joint Interview With Trump Border Czar and Eric Adams on Fox News: ‘Open, Naked Corruption’

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed on Friday that a joint interview between President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Fox News that morning constituted “naked corruption.”

Homan and Adams appeared on Fox & Friends Friday morning to discuss an “agreement” between the city and current administration. Homan is in the midst of a mass deportation plan, and Adams has long said New York City does not have the resources to provide for illegal migrants that have been bused into the city.

There has been a revolt among prosecutors since the Department of Justice decided to drop corruption charges against Adams. Former Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon and others have resigned their positions in protest, and Sassoon accused Adams and Trump of reaching a quid pro quo agreement.

Hagan Scotten, the Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, also resigned on Friday, telling Trump in a scathing letter to find “enough of a coward to file your motion.”

Swalwell joined MSNBC’s Ali Vitali on Friday and said seeing Adams and Homan together on Fox News stunk of “corruption” to him. He also praised the prosecutors resigning their posts, claiming they refuse to take part in a “drug deal.”

Swalwell argued:

When you see prosecutors in New York refuse to do a drug deal for Donald Trump, that’s what honor looks like. Every prosecutor in America should read the memo that the lead prosecutor, I believe her name is Danielle Sassoon, put forward. It’s so inspiring. When I was a prosecutor, it’s what we were supposed to do. We were supposed to look at the facts and the law, and not to give a rip about anyone’s political standing. Watching this morning, Trump’s lead immigration czar and Eric Adams on television talking about this agreement, it was so disgusting. It’s what you would see on Russian television. Just open naked corruption. And so what we have to do in Congress, you know, is the branch that funds government and that funds the Department of Justice is to put in place, you know, guardrails and protections against this and that funding is coming up, by the way, in just a couple of weeks.

Watch above via MSNBC.