Eric Swalwell — the guy who literally got caught sleeping with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang — just sent a cease-and-desist letter to the FBI demanding they stop preparing to release the files about him literally sleeping with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
Incredible. This clown has more nerve than a dentist’s office.
For those who need a refresher, Swalwell spent years cozying up to Christine Fang, a Chinese intelligence operative who wormed her way into California politics between 2011 and 2015. She fundraised for Swalwell’s campaigns and planted an intern in his congressional office. (Totally normal behavior for a random foreign student, we’re sure.) She latched onto him when he was just a nobody city council member in Dublin, California — because nothing says “high-value intelligence target” like a Dublin city councilman.
Fang bolted from the country in 2015 after the FBI started closing in. The whole sordid mess blew up publicly in December 2020 when Axios dropped the story.
Now FBI Director Kash Patel wants to release the investigative files. Swalwell’s lawyers fired off a letter demanding Patel confirm “in writing by Wednesday” that he won’t make the files public. They claim releasing the documents would be “a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for governor of California.”
Smear him? Brother, you did this to yourself.
Swalwell’s attorneys — Sean Hecker and Norm Eisen — threatened the FBI with “significant legal liability” if they release the records. They even invoked DOJ rules against federal agents influencing elections. Rich stuff coming from the party that weaponized the DOJ against a sitting president for four straight years.
Remember, this is the same Eric Swalwell who parked himself on CNN and MSNBC every single night — sometimes twice a night — shrieking that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. He looked directly into the camera and told millions of Americans that the president of the United States was a traitor controlled by Vladimir Putin. He pushed that hoax knowing full well that a Chinese operative had infiltrated his own office and his own bedroom. That’s not hypocrisy. That’s performance art.
Democrats could get caught selling nuclear codes at a yard sale and still hold a press conference blaming Republicans. It’s baked into the party DNA at this point.
The really juicy part? Swalwell claims “nothing happened” with Fang and that the whole story is “nonsense.” Cool. Then explain why your congressional campaign fund made 44 separate payments totaling $305,118 to a Bay Area law firm that specializes in white-collar criminal defense — not election law. Three hundred grand in legal fees for a big pile of “nonsense.” That must be some very expensive nothing.
Fang didn’t just target Swalwell, by the way. The FBI caught her on electronic surveillance having a sexual encounter with an Ohio mayor in a car. She was openly referred to as a “girlfriend” by a Midwestern mayor at a 2014 conference in D.C. This woman ran a full-blown honeypot operation across the United States, and Swalwell was her crown jewel — the rising Democratic star she helped build from city council to Congress.
And what did Nancy Pelosi do when all of this came out? She kept him on the House Intelligence Committee. The Democrats knew one of their own had been compromised by Chinese intelligence, and their response was to keep handing him America’s most sensitive classified briefings like it was a Costco sample tray. Kevin McCarthy finally yanked Swalwell off the committee when Republicans took back the House in 2023, saying, “If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have…” and he didn’t even finish the sentence. That tells you everything.
Now this genius wants to be governor of California. According to an Emerson College poll, he’s actually leading the race. A congressman with a Chinese spy scandal, a $305,000 criminal defense tab, and a fake residency — he apparently rents a single room in some family’s house in Livermore just so he can claim he still lives in his district — is the Democratic frontrunner for the biggest state in the country.
California’s jungle primary hits June 2, and the party is lining up behind the Fang Fang candidate like this is all perfectly normal. But of course they are. This is the same party that ran a dementia patient for president and told us he was sharp as a tack. Democrats don’t clean house. They hand the mess a promotion and a microphone.
Swalwell held a press conference whining that “Donald Trump is targeting me” and that the federal government is trying to “manufacture deceit” and “crush” his campaign. He actually said — out loud, into microphones, on purpose — that “defamation is the highest form of flattery.”
No, Eric. Defamation is when someone lies about you. When the FBI releases a file documenting what you actually did with a Chinese intelligence operative named Fang Fang, that’s called transparency. We know Democrats struggle with that concept.
Dave Portnoy summed it up perfectly when he told Swalwell: “You were literally removed from the House Intelligence Committee for having your office infiltrated by a Chinese spy named Fang Fang… Maybe sit out the National Security lectures.”
The FBI reportedly wants to send agents to China to interview Fang directly. They’re even considering offering her a U.S. visa in exchange for cooperation. If that woman starts talking, Swalwell’s poll numbers are going to crater faster than Fang Fang’s cover story did in 2015.
Kash, release the files. Every last page. We’ll bring the popcorn.
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