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Eric Swalwell insists Chinese spy case ‘is closed’ at bizarre press conference as FBI digs up files
NY Post ^ | 3/30/26 | Annie Gaus

Posted on 03/30/2026 4:45:49 PM PDT by Libloather

California candidate for governor Eric Swalwell insisted “the case is closed” at an abrupt news conference — as FBI Director Kash Patel threatens to release investigative files about a suspected Chinese spy who infiltrated his office.

“This case is closed — the bureau said, over 10 years ago, all we did was help,” Swalwell said in brief remarks Monday outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.

The East Bay rep was surrounded by SEIU union officials as he blasted FBI Director Kash Patel as a “temporary employee” engaged in a “horrendous abuse of power” in digging up the investigative files about Swalwell and Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese Communist Party asset who cultivated ties with Swalwell starting when he was a Dublin city council member.

Fang, also known as “Fang Fang,” was a student at California State University East Bay who began schmoozing Swalwell at events, Axios reported in 2020, even bundling donations for his campaign and recommending interns for his office.

Trump officials ordered FBI agents to compile records of the decade-old investigation of Swalwell’s ties to Fang, who reportedly left the US in 2015 after worming her way into Swalwell’s orbit and carrying on romantic or sexual relationships with two midwestern mayors, per Axios.

The order “alarmed” some investigators, the New York Times reported — partly because the files are “extensive” and include a substantial amount of classified and private information.

Swalwell is considered the Democratic frontrunner in the race for California governor and accused Trump and Patel of “weaponizing” federal law enforcement to meddle in the race.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: china; ericswallwellinsists; ericswalwellinsists; spy; spycase; spyfbi; swalwell; thecaseisclosedtho

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Eric should share a cell with Letitia. Oh, and Omar. She's the one who married her brother.
1 posted on 03/30/2026 4:45:49 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Do it! Make him finish 3rd in the Calif. primary.


2 posted on 03/30/2026 4:49:45 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Libloather
"all we did was help,” Swalwell said

That's what the Rosenbergs said.

3 posted on 03/30/2026 4:55:00 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Libloather

Eric’s a prime example of how stupid California govt is these days.
And to think we gave the nation a Ronald Reagan.


4 posted on 03/30/2026 4:57:15 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Bullish

Swalwell needs a job cleaning stables.


5 posted on 03/30/2026 5:03:19 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Libloather

No matter what office he holds or gets elected to it will always be:
Fang Fang grabbed his
Wang Wang
And he did
Bang Bang
And then he
Sang Sang


6 posted on 03/30/2026 5:04:02 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather
Eric Swalwell insists Chinese spy case ‘is closed’ at bizarre press
conference as FBI digs up files

Plenty of smoke from someone who has nothing to hide.

7 posted on 03/30/2026 5:08:43 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Technical Graduate, Quality Learing Center)
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To: oldtech

Hell, he’d even screw that up.

He should be waiting for tricks on Crenshaw blvd.


8 posted on 03/30/2026 5:09:35 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Don’t threaten to release files,
merely release files.


9 posted on 03/30/2026 5:11:14 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Libloather

Eric should share a cell with Letitia. Oh, and Omar. She’s the one who married her brother.


They might enjoy each other’s company.


10 posted on 03/30/2026 5:19:42 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Speaking of whom, they're why I celebrate Juneteenth!


11 posted on 03/30/2026 5:22:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

Well gee Swallowwell, if there is nothing to see here moving on, lets see the files..I mean his side is always calling saying RELEASE THE FILES, so let’s see the files. I want to know if this dirt bag slept with fang fang in his wife’s bed and gave her classified intel which she gave to Xi


12 posted on 03/30/2026 5:23:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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why I celebrate Juneteenth!

Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" month.

13 posted on 03/30/2026 5:23:29 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: Libloather

They’re coming to get him... coming to get him...


14 posted on 03/30/2026 5:26:22 PM PDT by GOPJ (Oil was over$100 for three and a half years of Obama’s term without daily headlines-The MSM sucks...)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

That’s Lincoln’s birthday and / or Emancipation Proclamation Day. Some random local thing like Texas’ Juneteenth is BS.


15 posted on 03/30/2026 5:26:29 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Agree. Stop threatening and never doing.


16 posted on 03/30/2026 5:32:13 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: oldtech

Hopefully he would get a kick out of it. 🐎🐎


17 posted on 03/30/2026 5:44:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

NO ONE CAN FIND AN ACTUAL RESIDENCE ADDRESS FOR HIM IN CALIF:

PLUS-—STATE LAW==YOU MUST BE A RESIDENT FOR 5 YEARS TO QUALIFY TO BE GOVERNOR.


18 posted on 03/30/2026 5:45:45 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: antidemoncrat

Good one. You missed the cut off date for the latest Best American Poetry but maybe next time.

Goes along with the old William Carlos Williams lines from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (1962):

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.


19 posted on 03/30/2026 5:50:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: FreedomPoster
Some random local thing like Texas’ Juneteenth is BS.

Maybe so, but since it has common usage, we might as well hijack the term, and get the truth out about the party of slavery.

It might well overshadow the wimpy meaning of Juneteenth.

20 posted on 03/30/2026 5:55:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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