Posted on 08/07/2026 4:12:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Eric Swalwell once dated Katie Miller, the woman now married to Trump's top deputy Stephen Miller, and the long-buried romance has reportedly surfaced at the center of the fight over the FBI's 'Fang Fang' files.
Lawyers for the disgraced former Democratic lawmaker brought up the relationship as they battled to stop the Justice Department from making public its investigative file on his ties to suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang, according to the Sources Say newsletter.
Fang, who fled to China in 2015 as the FBI closed in, spent years cozying up to rising California Democrats, helping bundle donations for Swalwell's 2014 re-election campaign and even placing an intern in his congressional office.
Swalwell severed all ties and cooperated with investigators after agents warned him about her in a defensive briefing, and the probe ended without charges. But the scandal has dogged him since it burst into public view in 2020.
As the FBI pushed to release its investigative files on the matter earlier this year, Swalwell's legal team reportedly claimed that the Trump administration publicizing the documents would look like a punitive bid to weaponize the department against him.
Miller told Sources Say that she had no idea her history with Swalwell had ever been raised with the Justice Department.
She was 22 and an intern when the decade-old relationship began, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily Mail. The pair have not spoken or seen each other for years.
The romance fizzled out long before she got together with her now-husband of six years, one of Donald Trump's most trusted aides with whom she shares four children.
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Such an incestuous group of DC sleaze balls. What are the odds?
I like Stephen Miller an awful lot, but I would not marry a woman who once canoodled with the likes of Eric Swalwell. Can’t he find a nice gal who doesn’t have such a past?
Since when does “once dated” mean having sex?
I dated lots of men when I was young, with whom I never had sex; including one I dated off and on over a span of ten years.
You stay Classy.
Do you think Washington politicians date interns for the sophisticated conversation?
Per the story, the relationship ended 10 years ago. Per Wikipedia, Stalwell married his most recent wife 10 years ago.
You make a very salient point.
I have been. Red-pilled on the issue of re-marriage. It is a topic I have great difficulty with.
How do you know she’s not a nice girl?
Since when does “once dated” mean having sex?
I dated lots of men when I was young, with whom I never had sex; including one I dated off and on over a span of ten years.
Exactly!
Do you think every intern puts out?
Well, since relationships have been flipped on their head the past few decades (where the sex comes first before any sort of actual meaningful relationship), I think the assumption, fairly or not, is there must have been sex if they were ‘dating’. Otherwise, they wouldn’t even bother to use the word.
Not saying I like it, but that seems to be how it’s been for a lot of people.
“”I dated lots of men when I was young, with whom I never had sex; including one I dated off and on over a span of ten years.””
You are right! You must have belonged to the same “old school” that I belonged to. I can’t say I dated lots of men - just a childhood/high school sweetheart who I married but that was just the way it was in “those days.”
Sort of like Gavin Newsom.
1992–1997: Newsom, then on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, dated Kelley Phleger, who later married actor Don Johnson.
(From The List): Interestingly, in 1996, Phleger was at a birthday party honoring the former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown with whom Kamala Harris once had a relationship, when she crossed paths with actor Don Johnson, who was starring on the hit TV cop show “Nash Bridges.” The pair were introduced by producer Jo Schuman Silver, and Johnson reportedly told Silver that he was dead set on dating her. However, Phleger and Newsom were still together at the time. After their eventual split the following year, Phleger and Johnson reconnected, and a love connection was forged. Phleger went on to marry Johnson in 1999. The pair are still married and share three children.
We know absolutely nothing about what really happened between these two people; but so many here are willing to suggest that a now wife and mother must have been ‘loose’.
(And women often date lousy men before realizing that they are lousy.)
There are still women who conduct themselves that way - if they’re smart.
“”I have been. Red-pilled on the issue of re-marriage.””
You have been what? Is that period in the wrong place and you meant to continue on?
Yes, the period was an accident.
I have been red-pilled on the issue of re-marriages. Unfortunately, too many people who couldn’t make the first marriage work become too damaged to make a second one work.
The same evil people who want to destroy the USA, want young kids to think that having sex with even casual acquaintances is entirely normal. It is not.
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