‘Retribution campaign’: This Trump official has become MAGA’s ‘loudest attack dog’

During the United States’ 2024 presidential nominee, many critics of GOP nominee Donald Trump warned that if he defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and returned to the White House, his second administration would be even more MAGA than his first. And just as those critics predicted, President Trump made a concerted effort to appoint as many ultra-MAGA loyalists as possible.

One of the “loudest” and most performative, according to Vox’s Andrew Prokop, is Bill Pulte, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

In an article published on July 29, Prokop details some of the antics that the 37-year-old Pulte is resorting to in order to show Trump how MAGA he is.

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“The Trump Administration’s loudest attack dog of late holds an unlikely position: director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency,” Prokop explains. “The FHFA’s 37-year-old director, Bill Pulte, has been pounding the drums to get Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fired. He’s publicly pressured Powell on social media, he gave Trump a draft letter that would have ordered Powell’s firing, and he’s tried to establish a pretext Trump could use to fire Powell. But Pulte has also played a broader role in Trump’s retribution campaign.”

Prokop continues, “He’s used his position to try and get two of Trump’s Democratic enemies — Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and New York Attorney General Letitia James — prosecuted for mortgage fraud. Some of his allies hope this is just the start, and that even bigger things lie in Pulte’s future.”

The Vox journalist notes that “attack dog” is not a role one traditionally associates with the FHFA.

“The grandson of the founder of a major home-building company, Pulte has demonstrated a remarkable knack for getting attention and building his public profile,” Prokop observes. “He has 3 million followers on X, and his posts there have started to move markets, according to Bloomberg. Pulte has his enemies in the (Trump) Administration; the Wall Street Journal recently reported his anti-Powell campaign has ‘irritated’ some senior officials.”

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Read Andrew Prokop’s full Vox article at this link (subscription required).

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