FBI Director Kash Patel directed California FBI agents to gather and lightly redact decade-old counterintelligence files on Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang, more commonly known as “Fang Fang,” for potential sharing with senior Trump administration officials and public release.
Fang reportedly helped Swalwell’s 2014 fundraising and placed an intern in his office; the probe ended without charges. Breitbart’s 2021 report revealed a classified intelligence document with “intricate and intimate” details, including alleged sexual acts. Swalwell, now running for California governor, called it Trump’s election interference driven by fear.
The original Classified U.S. Intelligence Community report, dated 2021, mentioned: “intricate and intimate” details about the relationship between Swalwell and Feng, as well as “including certain sexual acts they allegedly engaged in together.”
In response to biased coverage by the mainstream media, the FBI spokesperson denied improper motives regarding the investigative files. The official noted, “The contentions in this story are incorrect,” refuting any allegations.
“This FBI, being the most transparent in history, prepares documents for numerous different reasons, including for release to different agencies and departments to further review investigations that may have been opened under previous administrations,” the same source stated.
Writing at the time of the initial allegations, a former external senior adviser to Intelligence Community (IC) leadership explained, “Regardless of whether you would have pegged Eric Swalwell as someone dumb enough to sleep with a CCP spy, the evidence is damning.”
Another inside source said, “That report should be declassified. There are no concerns about sources or methods. The only purpose served by keeping that report classified is saving Swalwell from embarrassment. That’s not a good enough reason.”
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Attempting to regain control of the situation, the unpopular Democrat stated, “The reason Trump is so desperately trying to stop me is not that I’m running for Governor of California, but because now I’m the favorite, but Donald Trump and Kash Patel do not get to pick the next Governor. Californians do.”
However, this is far from the only scandal related to Rep. Eric Swalwell. Earlier this year, he was embroiled in a scandal over a massive $200,000 in taxpayer-funded childcare costs, including $102,000+ to Amanda Barbosa, $57,324 to Bambini daycare, and $6,000+ to his wife, Brittany.
Explaining the situation, Allen Mendenhall, research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, stated, “It’s an expense that candidates with young children will incur regardless of whether they’re in a campaign. I have childcare costs. Many people have childcare costs, and we can’t just use this other money to subsidize our things.”
“The danger here is creating a special class of politicians who are insulated from normal constraints, ordinary constraints that everybody else has to deal with,” the senior advisor at Capital Markets Initiative added.
Wrapping up his comments, he noted, “Campaign law exists not to underwrite the private lives of politicians, but to ensure that political speech is protected and that public advocacy occurs, that we have electoral competition. Election laws are in place to try to maintain the integrity of our electoral system, and that decision, I think, undermines the integrity of the system.”
Watch Swalwell get roasted during a disaster of a town hall appearance: