{"id":47463,"date":"2021-01-13T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47463"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:00:27","slug":"wow-pelosi-appoints-impeachment-manager-whos-under-investigation-for-chinese-spy-honeypot-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47463","title":{"rendered":"WOW ! ! ! Pelosi Appoints Impeachment Manager Who’s Under Investigation for Chinese Spy\/Honeypot Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pelosi Names Eric Swalwell As House Impeachment Manager<\/h1>\n

by Jonathan Turley<\/p>\n

Speaker Nancy\u00a0Pelosi shocked many in Washington by appointing Eric Swalwell as a house managers in the impeachment\u00a0<\/strong>of President Donald Trump as he continues to face calls for his removal from the House Intelligence Committee due to his alleged intimate relationship with a Chinese spy.<\/p>\n

Swalwell has been hunkered down to avoid questions from the media and the public, but he will now be one of those prosecuting the case against the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He allegedly first met the spy,\u00a0Fang Fang<\/a>\u00a0or Christine Fang, in 2011. She not only raised money for Swalwell but reportedly had a personal relationship with him. She also pushed successfully for his office to accept an intern. He cut ties with her in 2015 after the FBI contacted him.\u00a0Pelosi made no mention of the scandal in heralding Swalwell\u2019s credentials<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cCongressman Swalwell serves on House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he chairs the Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Subcommittee, and on the Judiciary Committee,\u201d Pelosi\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cHe is a former prosecutor and is the son and brother of law enforcement officers.\u00a0 He is serving his fifth term in Congress.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Usually a speaker selects House managers to reinforce the credibility and integrity of the case against a president.<\/strong>\u00a0Even before the current scandal, Swalwell was viewed as a member who was a\u00a0raw partisan<\/strong>. Last year, it was revealed that (despite long denials) the FBI did send an agent to report on his observations within the Trump campaign. As I discussed in a\u00a0column<\/a>, Democratic members spent years mocking allegations that there was any spying or surveillance of Trump or his campaign by the FBI. That was just a conspiracy theory. Now however there is proof that the FBI used a briefing in August 2016 of then candidate Trump to gather information for \u201cCrossfire Hurricane,\u201d the Russia investigation. It turns out that it did not really matter after all and Rep. Eric Swalwell did not miss a step.\u00a0Swalwell declared<\/a>\u00a0that such targeting of the opposing party and its leading presidential candidate was \u201cthe right thing to do.\u201d That\u2019s it. A conspiracy theory suddenly becomes a commendable act.<\/p>\n

Previously, Swalwell also declared that\u00a0 if President Donald Trump refused to give Congress the documents and witnesses that it has demanded, he is clearly guilty of all charged offenses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swalwell declared \u201cWe can only conclude that you\u2019re guilty<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Swalwell selection is clearly part of a rehabilitation campaign.<\/strong>\u00a0Swalwell remained secluded as the many in the media refused to carry the story, let alone investigate it.\u00a0 A member of the House Intelligence Committee carried on an intimate relationship with a Chinese spy but major media largely blacked out coverage as they did on the Hunter Biden story.\u00a0Now Pelosi will use the impeachment as a way for Swalwell to reemerge from seclusion . . . as the accuser and prosecutor of President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While there are good faith reasons for calling for impeachment, there remain serious questions over the speed and basis for the impeachment.\u00a0 My concern is primarily over the use of a snap impeachment without even a hearing to discuss the implications of this action. That makes the House managers even more important in bringing credibility to this effort.\u00a0This is putting politics ahead of the institution in my view.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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