The revelation that Rep. Eric Swalwell was friends with Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese spy, has a certain poetic justice to it.

Swalwell was one of the most prominent defenders of the now discredited rumor that Donald Trump had colluded with Russian intelligence to manipulate the 2016 election.

But it turns out that he was aware of being groomed and supported by a suspected Chinese intelligence asset the entire time he was disseminating those lies.

Swalwell consistently claimed during the Mueller investigation that Trump not only conspired Without providing a scrap of proof, but he also claimed to have a relationship with Russia and that he was a “agent” of Russian intelligence.

Chris Matthews questioned him about if Trump was a Russian spy during an appearance on MSNBC, asking, “Like in the 1940s where you had people who were reds?” He is, in fact, working for the Russians, Swalwell retorted.

Later, it turned out to be a fabrication. Swalwell claimed to have seen evidence that the rest of us could not that Trump was a Russian agent while serving on the House Intelligence Committee, even though we now know that there was none.

A post-Congress spokesman confirms then-Speaker John Boehner and now-Speaker Pelosi “were briefed together several times” on Rep. Eric Swalwell's relationship with Christine Fang. https://t.co/BD4Uq4CmoI

— John R Parkinson (@jparkABC) December 10, 2020

It is, therefore, quite odd to hear that the congressman who accused Trump of being an agent of a hostile foreign power himself was friends with someone who was allegedly such an agent.

As part of a Chinese espionage operation to get close to burgeoning political stars, Fang started courting Swalwell when he was a councilman for the city of Dublin, California.

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