Swalwell says McCarthy criticism of him inspiring death threats

The Hill ^ | 01-19-2023 | Jared Gans

[ChicagoConservative27]

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that attacks from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are inspiring death threats against him.

Swalwell told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace on “Deadline: White House” that McCarthy plans to remove him from his committee assignments for “political vengeance.”

Swalwell has emerged as a particularly controversial individual among House Republicans over his connection to a suspected Chinese spy during his 2014 reelection campaign, which became public in 2020.

Swalwell ended his ties with the Chinese national when the FBI informed him of her identity, but Republicans have called for him to be removed from sensitive committee assignments and accused him of jeopardizing national security.

McCarthy reiterated a promise to prevent Swalwell and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from joining the House Intelligence Committee last week.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Whiny BEEP

[Mr. K]

It’s only OK to make death threats to Republicans, you see.

[imabadboy99]

leftists always make up fake “death threats” and the media blindly reports it in order to garner sympathy for these degenerates.

[jmacusa]

“Farty Pants’’ Swalwell making noise again.

[robowombat]

Good, and may there be many more happy returns

[liberalh8ter]

Gee, that's such a shame. It's not like Swalwell ever said anything antagonistic about anyone. LOL

[RedMonqey]

Take you and your fellow Democrats to the baseball field.

[chuckee]

Likely story. He shouldn’t have farted at that congressional hearing. It brings out the crazies.

[MeganC]

“It’s only OK to make death threats to Republicans, you see.”

Don’t forget the Democrats have actually tried to kill Republicans like Steve Scalise.

[PGR88]

I swear the CIA has a covert program to pick its lowest IQ, most retarded candidates, and push them to run for Congress in totally safe and controlled Democrat districts.

If such a program exists, Swalwell is Exhibit 1-A.

[Magnum44]

[MrRelevant]

Seriously. All the guy does is try to stay relevant by antagonizing others but bitches when people chirp back.

[UNGN]

Matt Gaetz forgives him, because he was screwing a Chinese spy when he was on the Dublin city council.

Matt said, if he was on a podunk town city council and a hot Chinese spy made a move on him, he’d probably hit it, too.

[RedMonqey]

Take you and your fellow Democrats to the baseball field, Swalwel!

[struggle]

When Democrats are in charge: The republicans are racist for saying that, so we have to put an end to it.
When Democrats aren’t in charge: The republicans are causing violence against us for saying that, so we have to put an end to it.

[Steve_Seattle]

"It’s only OK to make death threats to Republicans, you see."

Yeo. "Stochastic terrorism" only goes one way. The left seems intent on criminalizing any criticism of them or their policies. This is not new, but it's getting worse. They tried to blame Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing. They tried to blame an electoral map on Sarah Palin's website for the Gabby Giffords shooting even though there was no evidence whatsoever that the shooter (who was NOT a Palin supporter) had ever even seen her website.

[Williams]

Wow so he can’t be criticized even for being a security risk.

[jacknhoo]

That’s too bad. Threats, that is.

[Bullish]

You deserve a lot more than just a bunch of idle threats, Eric. Anyone that would put their country’s security up for a cheap piece of ass needs to shut up and face the rope.

[frank ballenger]

Need that meme of the world’s tiniest violin playing.