One of the slimiest worms to ever walk the halls of Congress in recent years was Eric Swalwell. And now, here comes more proof that characterization is 100 percent true.
Newly declassified FBI memos have filled in the details that Swalwell spent years trying to keep buried. The files confirm that Swalwell admitted to FBI agents during interviews that he engaged in a sexual relationship with Christine Fang — the Chinese national long suspected of working for Beijing’s intelligence services — on multiple occasions, including one incident in which she appeared at his door and the two had a sexual encounter.
This is the man who spent every waking moment of the Trump years lecturing America about ‘foreign interference’ in our politics.
The FBI files reveal a case built around illegal campaign donations, intern placements, and the congressman’s intimate relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset. Investigators developed clear evidence that Fang funneled illegal campaign donations to Swalwell by routing money through U.S. citizen conduits — straw contributors used to conceal the foreign source of the funds. She also repeatedly referred interns to both his campaign and congressional office, which the bureau initially viewed as a potential quid pro quo arrangement.
The FBI opened a formal predicated investigation treating both Swalwell and Fang as subjects, examining possible bribery and campaign-finance violations. After interviewing the congressman, agents dropped him as a target and narrowed the case to Fang’s illegal activities. Despite assembling strong evidence — prohibited foreign contributions, conduit donations, false-statement offenses — the Justice Department declined to prosecute after she fled to China. Early oversight of the matter involved Jack Smith, who would later use far flimsier evidence in two separate attempts to prosecute President Trump.
The irony of the Swalwell story is almost too perfect to process. Here is a congressman who:
- Sat on the House Intelligence Committee while in an intimate relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset
- Spent years claiming the relationship was innocent and that he’d been appropriately briefed and handled it properly
- Built his entire brand on warning Americans about foreign influence in their democracy
- Demanded Trump’s removal from office over Russian collusion allegations that Robert Mueller couldn’t substantiate
- Is now confirmed, by the FBI’s own files, to have admitted a sexual relationship with a woman the bureau believed was working for Beijing
Swalwell resigned from Congress in April after multiple women — including a former staffer — accused him of sexual misconduct and assault, with one alleging rape. He is now facing criminal investigations in both New York and California.
The declassified files arrive in the same week that Trump’s primetime address revealed the CIA was burying Chinese election interference intelligence, that FBI officials described running “shadow governments,” and that burn bags of Obama-era documents turned up unburned in FBI headquarters.
The Chinese spy who compromised a sitting congressman on the House Intelligence Committee. The FBI that had the evidence and declined to prosecute. And Jack Smith, overseeing it all, before finding the time to file two indictments against Donald Trump. Every conspiracy theorist was right. The documents confirm it.
