California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) was allegedly compromised by a Chinese spy who also once helped raise funds for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), according to a report from Axios.
- a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang, targeted up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage.
- Among the most significant targets of Fang’s efforts was Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
- Fang took part in fundraising activity for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to a Bay Area political operative and a current U.S. intelligence official. Swalwell’s office was directly aware of these activities on its behalf, the political operative said. That same political operative, who witnessed Fang fundraising on Swalwell’s behalf, found no evidence of illegal contributions.
- Federal Election Commission records don’t indicate Fang herself made donations, which are prohibited from foreign nationals.
- Fang helped place at least one intern in Swalwell’s office, according to those same two people, and interacted with Swalwell at multiple events over the course of several years.
“She was on a mission,’’ a US counter-intelligence official said of Fang, as reported in the New York Post — and it included plenty of seduction before the feds got wind of her antics and she vanished in 2015.
Rather than take responsibility for his actions, Rep. Eric Swalwell suggested Tuesday that the Axios’ report was a targeted attack from President Donald Trump.
WIBC host Tony Katz offered perspective on the controversy Wednesday morning:
Katz:
“Swalwell is now speaking out about this scandal following the Axios article, which outlines how China is attempting to infiltrate our government at the highest level because China and communism are our enemies.
“But because Axios wrote this story and Rep. Swalwell has been caught up in the scandal, he’s blaming President Donald Trump and saying that it’s a targeted attack. Eric Swalwell is such a cheap and low-rent guy that this is his excuse. He thinks that this is being weaponized against him. Well, Mr. Swalwell, did you or did you not have a sexual relationship with Fang?
“Well, was Rep. Swalwell compromised? Maybe, and it’s a fair question. It’s a fair question and it has to be explored.”
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