After Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to prosecute threats of violence against public officials, Rep. Eric Swalwell was furious.
“This is rich,” Swalwell posted to X on Tuesday. “AG Bondi has REFUSED to prosecute MULTIPLE direct death threats against me and my family.”
Swalwell’s post gained traction — so much so that Bondi called him to ask “what I was referring to,” the California Democrat told NOTUS on Thursday.
“We sent her the two most recent cases where DOJ declined to prosecute, and they were cases where the person explicitly said he was going to kill me and my family,” Swalwell said. “One of them, I think, said, ‘Now you will die.’”
“I’ll take her at her word that she’s going to look at them,” Swalwell continued. “Hopefully there’s some action.”
But Swalwell, whose East Bay