While Eric Swalwell and his Democratic colleagues spent years pumping the Russia collusion propaganda against President Donald J. Trump and myself on national television, including Swalwell and Schiff’s false two-year claim that I was a Russian intelligence asset, newly released FBI documents reveal they were projecting their own crimes onto innocent Americans.
In fact, it was the Democratic Party that was hiding their own asset story, which involved a Chinese influence operation that used sex, interns, and illegal campaign money to target Swalwell himself.
This all unfolded while James Comey ran the FBI and Jack Smith headed the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, the exact office that reviewed and approved key early steps in the case later known as Freshman Fifteen.
The Bureau knew Fang Fang (Christine Fang) was illegally raising money for California Democrats and using sex for political access. After all, her parents were assessed by the Bureau as Ministry of State Security officers.
Still, agents tried to recruit her as a source.
Simultaneously, Swalwell was in a sexual relationship with her. He later admitted to the FBI he had “physical relations” with her on multiple occasions, including one late-night encounter after taking the prescription sleeping drug Ambien, and claimed he barely remembered.
By 2013 he was already joking to friends that his new girlfriend might work for the Chinese CIA. None of it stopped him.
The Bureau’s attempt to recruit Fang as a source failed in March 2014.
Days later agents opened a full public-corruption investigation focused on Fang trading internships in Swalwell’s office for campaign contributions and funneling illegal straw donations. The target was Swalwell.
Nancy Pelosi, then House Minority Leader, placed him on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2015 and cleared him for top-secret material while the relationship and the fundraising racket were still ongoing and known to the Bureau.
The last physical encounter, by Swalwell’s own account, occurred in March 2015. He received a classified defensive briefing on April 30, 2015, right in the middle of the active counterintelligence and public-corruption investigation.
Senior intelligence officials also delivered defensive briefings to congressional leadership about Chinese targeting of members’ offices. As a ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff received those warnings.
They still gave Swalwell defensive briefings.
When a foreign intelligence operation targets a politician, the FBI issues a warning. Why was that standard applied here but inverted in the Russia case against Trump and I? The selective enforcement is criminal.
A sitting member of Congress maintained a physical relationship with a suspected Chinese spy whom the FBI believed was linked to the Ministry of State Security, and whose parents were both assessed as MSS officers.
During that period, the same foreign intelligence assest placed interns in his office and routed illegal contributions to his campaign.
Why did the deep state protect Swalwell while launching a full-court press against Trump and myself?
Fang fled to China around May 2015 after agents began interviewing her associates. Swalwell was dropped as a subject in February 2017, and the investigation closed without charges in May 2017.
Agents had evidence of prohibited foreign-national contributions, conduit donations, falsifying records, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. They cited “national security reasons” and the unlikelihood she would return.
By then Swalwell was a regular on nightly cable news milking the completely false, fabricated Russia collusion narrative, including his reckless claims that I was a Russian intelligence asset. Schiff did the same, amplifying the narrative and publicly defending his later disgraced Democratic colleague’s place on the Intelligence Committee.
Later, Inspector General Michael Horowitz of the Biden DOJ determined that he and Adam Schiff were leaking classified information. A House Ethics review took no action.
While the FBI was still investigating Swalwell’s multi-year relationship with a suspected Ministry of State Security operative, the illegal money she routed to his campaign, and the interns she planted in his office, defensive briefings on that Chinese targeting had already reached Intelligence Committee leadership. Both men sat on the committee and had access to those briefings. The only difference is that Swalwell was sleeping with a foreign intelligence asset.
Yet for years these men, along with their Democratic allies, threw scripted public tantrums in front of the cameras, insisting that Trump’s and my supposed Russian collusion made them national-security threats and relentlessly amplifying a narrative that ultimately collapsed under scrutiny. Millions watched it unfold night after night. Some believed it. Many hated it. All of it turned out to be a fraud.
Those same institutions that soft-pedaled an active, documented Chinese operation against one of their own treated far weaker claims against Trump and I with relentless force.
That is the deep state’s institutional favoritism on full display, not national security.
The declassified files prove the FBI identified a clear counterintelligence and public-corruption risk involving sex, planted interns, and illegal foreign money directed at a sitting member of Congress.
Federal agents investigated it under Director Comey and the Public Integrity Section then headed by Jack Smith, briefed leadership that included Schiff, watched Pelosi place that member on the nation’s most sensitive committee, and then sealed the record.
Instead of taking action, they chose willful blindness.
When the story later became public and Republicans demanded accountability, Pelosi did not merely defend the decision. She dismissed the entire national-security concern with calculated indifference. “I don’t have any concern about Mr. Swalwell,” she declared. “I do think that it is unfortunate that Mr. McCarthy is trying to make an issue of this.”
That public shrug ignored a more serious fact, Pelosi had already placed Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee in 2015 while the relationship and the foreign influence operation were still live. That was not caution or incomplete information. It was deliberate recklessness.
She kept him there anyway. And while shielding a colleague who had been targeted by a suspected Ministry of State Security operative, she and her allies continued to push the Russia narrative against Trump with maximum intensity.
The hypocrisy here is unmistakable. One documented Chinese operation was minimized and protected; a far weaker set of claims against a political opponent was treated as an existential threat.
Schiff later endorsed Swalwell’s 2026 gubernatorial bid. The campaign collapsed in April under separate sexual-misconduct allegations that forced Swalwell to resign from Congress. The China files were released only after Swalwell had already left office.
Instead, the FBI, DOJ, and Democrats took a fabricated story and pushed it relentlessly to cover their own crimes, amplifying an invented hoax that turned innocent American citizens’ lives upside down. That is not just selective enforcement. It is treason.
