D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro opens tip line soliciting allegations against former Rep. Eric Swalwell

The archivable act here is the prosecutor's, not the conduct alleged against the man she named. On April 15, 2026, Jeanine Pirro — the former Fox News host whom President Trump appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — posted a video announcing that her office had stood up a dedicated tip line, 202-252-0809, for anyone with "information regarding alleged sexual or inappropriate conduct" by former Rep. Eric Swalwell during the years he lived in Washington. She told the public her office's assistant U.S. attorneys were "trained on how to handle these cases" and that anyone submitting a tip would be kept confidential.

The announcement arrived just days after Swalwell, a California Democrat and longtime, vocal critic of Trump, resigned from Congress and ended his bid for governor of California amid sexual-misconduct allegations he has denied. By the time Pirro directed the resources of a federal prosecutor's office at soliciting allegations against him, Swalwell was both out of office and out of the governor's race. The target was not an ongoing official; he was a specifically named political adversary of the administration that had installed Pirro.

Directing a federal prosecutor's office to publicly solicit allegations against one named political opponent maps to politicized-investigations — steering investigative attention on political grounds — and to weaponizing-doj, the use of Justice Department resources to pursue a political adversary, with a secondary fit to targeting-critics-with-government-power. Selective prosecution was considered but does not apply: no charge has been brought, so the abuse lies in the politically targeted solicitation itself rather than in any charging decision. The act belongs to the same DOJ-weaponization pattern documented elsewhere in the archive, including the April 14, 2026 Civil Rights Division demand for Wayne County, Michigan ballots, while remaining a distinct event of its own.