Optics of making Millions by HF during election scared Mnuchin
The networth of GSE was low in December 2019 and raising $100B+ capital even with 2.5% capital requirement was impossible. Whereas Brandon can use cashout from GSE to bribe 5M-10M voters as $5K-$10K downpayments. He can blame republicans for blocking student loan forgiveness and claim that he can still manage to give $10K as downpayments.