The House on Thursday rejected a Republican effort to remove the representative Eric Swalwell
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Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines 218-200, with three Republicans voting “gifts”, to present a resolution that the minority leader in the House Kevin McCarthy
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Republicans took advantage of an Axios report late last year that Swalwell had a connection with Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy who helped raise funds for the California Democrat’s reelection campaign in 2014 and helped put an intern on his desk.
Swalwell, who briefly ran for president in 2019 and served as a promoter of the House during the impeachment trial of the former President Trump
Donald TrumpBorder shuffles immigration debate in the Senate Republican Party seeks measures to prevent trans athletes from gathering voters. last month, he was among several promising politicians that Fang was aiming for.
Swalwell was alerted by federal investigators around 2015 about Fang’s efforts to reach out to American politicians, which US officials believe is aimed at gathering political intelligence and influencing lawmakers on issues related to China. The authorities do not believe that Fang has received or passed on confidential information.
Swalwell said he promptly severed ties with Fang and provided the FBI with information about her.
On Thursday, Swalwell called McCarthy’s resolution “the New Macartism”.
“Meet the New Macartism. Multiple phrases in the resolution state ‘Swalwell did not deny …’ However, he failed to include several FBI statements of ‘no transgression’ and did nothing but ‘cooperate’. @GOPLeader support for QAnon, “tweeted Swalwell.
McCarthy said earlier that “there is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party”, but Democrats tried to tie him to the Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor GreeneRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will meet Trump ‘soon’ in Florida, the site QAnon closes after reports identifying Republican developers going into the second round in GA-14 MORE(R-Ga.) Past belief in conspiracy theory.
McCarthy argued that Swalwell’s previous connection with the alleged spy would make it difficult for Swalwell to obtain a security clearance in the private sector by asking about close contact with a foreign citizen in the past seven years and suggested, without providing details, that information from a classified briefing further solidified his case. “[Pelosi has] there are 200 other members who can serve on this committee and I think the only criterion that anyone would have to meet from the start would be can you have a security clearance in the private sector? If you can’t find that bar, you shouldn’t be able to find a bar to serve on the Intel Committee, “McCarthy said at a Capitol news conference.
Chairman of the Chamber’s Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett SchiffReport notes that the House panel of the growing white nationalist threat must accept the repeal of the 2002 war warrant in the ‘coming weeks’. (D-Calif.) Defended Swalwell in a statement on Thursday, calling him a “trusted and valuable” member of the panel.
“It is disturbing that Kevin McCarthy is trying to turn secret counterintelligence briefings into a political cudgel and use them to defame a colleague of the House in the process,” said Schiff.