Pulte responded by focusing exclusively on one Democrat: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has accused him of abusing his power to help President Donald Trump target political foes and has been trying to find the more than 25,000 tweets he reportedly deleted after the 2024 presidential election.
Punchbowl News opted to leave out the personal attack against Warren and only include the relevant part of Pulte’s quote, however, prompting him to gripe about it on X.
“It’s really sad to see the state of ‘journalism,’” Pulte wrote. “They include quotes from Democrats attacking me but leave out my quote where I said this about Elizabeth Warren, ‘Elizabeth Warren is faking an understanding of mortgage finance just like she faked her Native American heritage.’”
The article did mention Pulte’s response, saying, “We asked the FHFA for a response to these lawmakers’ comments. The agency sent back a statement attributable to Pulte that focused only on Warren, saying the Massachusetts Democrat was ‘faking an understanding of mortgage finance.’”
In an X post, Pedersen explained why his publication focused on the one relevant statement Pulte made, and not his inflammatory remark about Warren’s heritage.
“We included the part of the quote that met our editorial standards for relevancy, not the racial commentary. Thank you for your readership, Mr Pulte,” Pederson wrote.
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As of Monday afternoon, Pulte hadn’t responded to Pedersen’s explanation.