Gym rat and singer turned activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-tish-hyman-the-california-lesbian-fighting-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-locker-rooms">Tish Hyman</a> crashed Rep. Eric Swalwell&#8217;s (D-CA) recent town hall event, demanding answers from him regarding whether he would support women&#8217;s sex-based rights or would continue to allow trans-identifying men to invade women&#8217;s spaces.
Swalwell, who just recently announced that he was running to be the next governor of California, was trying to tout his personal record as a prosecutor when it came to crimes against women. Hyman, the subject of a recent viral video involving a trans-identifying man in the women&#8217;s locker room at her gym, pressed him repeatedly to recognize that men were not women, regardless of how they choose to identify.
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&#8220;First, ma&#8217;am, you asked I think the most emotionally poignant question and I want to start with you,&#8221; Swawell began, and immediately began to give his resume on prosecuting crimes against women. &#8220;I will not be a governor that tolerates violence against women in our state, period. That&#8217;s not gonna happen. It&#8217;s not.&#8221;
A number in the audience applauded, but that was when things started to get a little bit sticky.
&#8220;Now, as it relates, you know, to the issue of —&#8221; Swalwell continued.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman interjected.
&#8220;—trans kids —&#8221; Swalwell tried again.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman repeated.
&#8220;— particularly in sports —&#8221; Swalwell said.
&#8220;Men, in women&#8217;s space,&#8221; Hyman insisted. &#8220;Harassing, and you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. 14 times you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. So I need you to show all the women of California that you&#8217;re gonna protect us.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to protect women,&#8221; Swawell said. &#8220;I did as a prosecutor, I will protect women. No woman should be harassed —&#8221;
&#8220;Are there gonna be men allowed in the women&#8217;s room anymore?&#8221; Hyman shouted. &#8220;We need to know!&#8221;
&#8220;No woman should be harassed in a locker room, that&#8217;s a crime,&#8221; Swalwel said.
&#8220;Answer straight!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;Are there gonna be women — are you against men in women&#8217;s locker rooms and sports? That&#8217;s all you need to answer. Please!&#8221;
Swalwell did not answer directly but continued to insist that he would protect women and that women &#8220;should not be harassed&#8221; while in locker rooms.
&#8220;It&#8217;s happening all over America. There are 45 men in the women&#8217;s prisons right now raping them! Picking them out like chicken. Trans men are NOT women! They are raping women. So I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re on the Democrat side, the Republican side, we need to be on the women&#8217;s side, people!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;It&#8217;s happening to our girls, it&#8217;s happening to our women, and I&#8217;m here to let everyone know that this is happening. Open your eyes!&#8221;

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California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, arguing that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwell-faces-doj-criminal-probe-over-mortgage-fraud-accusations?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Eric+Swalwell+Faces+DOJ+Criminal+Probe+Over+Mortgage+Fraud+Accusations">accusations of mortgage fraud</a> against him are &#8220;patently false,&#8221; and claiming that the Washington, D.C., home at the center of the allegations is his wife&#8217;s primary residence, not his.
Swalwell argues in the lawsuit that the mortgage and tax fraud accusations are motivated by President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to &#8220;seek retribution against his political enemies.&#8221; The lawsuit names Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as a defendant along with the Federal Housing Agency, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and Federal National Mortgage Association. Earlier this month, Pulte referred Swalwell to Attorney General Pam Bondi over alleged mortgage and tax fraud related to his home in Washington, D.C.
Swalwell accuses Pulte of abusing his position &#8220;by scouring databases at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—two government-sponsored enterprises—for the private mortgage records of several prominent Democrats.&#8221;
&#8220;He then used those records to concoct fanciful allegations of mortgage fraud, which he referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution. The target of his most recent criminal referral is Plaintiff Eric Swalwell—one of the President’s most vocal and visible critics in Congress,&#8221; the lawsuit adds.
Swalwell was the fourth Democrat in recent months to face mortgage fraud allegations, after Pulte also sent criminal referrals to the DOJ for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook. The Justice Department is reportedly looking into the handling of the mortgage fraud investigation into Sen. Schiff, and whether the probe was pushed at the behest of Trump administration officials, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-mortgage-fraud-ed-martin-8b29a802d74b90576e0332d610ea99ce">reported</a>.
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Swalwell is accused of claiming his $1.2 million home in the nation&#8217;s capital as his primary residence despite living in California. Claiming the D.C. home as his primary residence would have qualified him for millions of dollars’ worth of loans and refinancing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/eric-swalwells-1-2-million-dc-home-target-of-doj-mortgage-fraud-criminal-referral/">reported</a>. Swalwell pushes back against those accusations in the lawsuit, which states that the Democratic congressman &#8220;disclaimed any intent to occupy the District of Columbia home as his primary residence in a sworn affidavit attached to his mortgage agreement.&#8221;
According to the lawsuit, the D.C. home is the primary residence of Swalwell&#8217;s wife, while the congressman remains a permanent resident of California.
&#8220;Pulte’s referral to the Justice Department was not only a gross mischaracterization of reality. It also represented a gross abuse of power that violated the law,&#8221; the suit argues.
Swalwell&#8217;s lawsuit also accuses the Federal Housing Finance Agency of engaging in &#8220;what appeared to be a coordinated leak&#8221; to news outlets and conservatives on social media after details about the allegations against Swalwell &#8220;appeared simultaneously&#8221; as Pulte referred Swalwell to the Justice Department.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has not responded to a request to comment.
As Swalwell faces a potential federal investigation over mortgage fraud accusations, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwell-wants-to-get-out-of-d-c-as-mortgage-fraud-scrutiny-intensifies?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Eric+Swalwell+Wants+To+Get+Out+Of+D.C.+As+Mortgage+Fraud+Scrutiny+Intensifies">announced</a> last week that he is running for governor of California. Swalwell announced his run during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s late-night show, saying he would focus on addressing economic issues and pushing back against the Trump administration&#8217;s policies.

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After years of getting caught up in controversies and pushing election conspiracy theories in Washington, D.C., California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell wants to go back home full-time.
Swalwell appeared on Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s late-night show on Thursday to announce that he&#8217;s running for California governor next year, joining a crowded field of Democrats gunning for the position. He announced the move as he faces a potential Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-swalwell-faces-doj-criminal-probe-over-mortgage-fraud-accusations">investigation</a> into allegations that he made false statements on loan documents for his $1.2 million house in Washington, D.C.
Kimmel set up Swalwell&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1991824644022874171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">big announcement</a> by asking the congressman what could be done to push back against President Donald Trump&#8217;s agenda.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what I&#8217;m going to do. I love California. It&#8217;s the greatest country in the world, greatest country in the world,&#8221; Swalwell said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why it pisses me off to see Californians running through the fields where they work from ICE agents or troops in our streets.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s horrifying,&#8221; Kimmel said.
Swalwell agreed, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s awful to look at, and our state, this great state, needs a fighter and a protector — someone who will bring prices down, lift wages up.&#8221;
&#8220;We can say that we&#8217;re the fourth-largest economy in the world, and we are. I love to brag about that, but what does that mean if we can&#8217;t afford to live here?&#8221; Swalwell continued. &#8220;So I&#8217;ve been in these fights as a city councilmember &#8230; as a prosecutor in Oakland, and taking on the most corrupt president ever in the U.S. Congress, but I&#8217;m ready to bring this fight home. So, I came here tonight to tell you and your audience that I&#8217;m running to be the next governor of California.&#8221;
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His announcement was met with a standing ovation from Kimmel&#8217;s audience. Swalwell also posted a <a href="https://x.com/ericswalwell/status/1991760527966851476">video</a> on social media announcing his gubernatorial bid. In the video, Swalwell focused on just two issues: fighting President Trump and making California a more affordable place to live.
Last week, Swalwell claimed that he is a target of political retribution from Trump after the president&#8217;s top housing official referred him to Attorney General Pam Bondi over alleged mortgage and tax fraud. The accusations stem from the Democrats&#8217; purchase of a $1.2 million home in the nation’s capital that he reportedly claimed as his primary residence, which would qualify him for millions of dollars’ worth of loans and refinancing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/eric-swalwells-1-2-million-dc-home-target-of-doj-mortgage-fraud-criminal-referral/">reported</a>.
The Daily Wire reached out to Swalwell&#8217;s office for comment on his decision to run for governor.
Swalwell has been at the center of multiple controversies since first getting elected to Congress in 2012. The California congressman was a key figure in the Democratic Party who pushed the Trump-Russia collusion hoax during the president&#8217;s first term. Swalwell was later slammed for his relationship with a Chinese woman who is suspected of spying for the Chinese Communist Party.
Swalwell enters what is promising to be a competitive race for governor, as numerous Democrats hope to take over for Gavin Newsom, who is term-limited. He joins former Congresswoman Katie Porter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and billionaire Tom Steyer in the Democratic primary. Former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco are running on the Republican side.

Eric Swalwell Wants To Get Out Of D.C. As Mortgage Fraud Scrutiny Intensifies

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California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell faces a potential federal investigation after President Donald Trump&#8217;s top housing official referred him to the Department of Justice over alleged mortgage and tax fraud on Thursday.
Swalwell is accused of making false statements on loan documents related to a house in Washington, D.C., according to a letter Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-eric-swalwell-federal-criminal-probe-mortgage-rcna243518">reported</a>. The allegations stem from Swalwell&#8217;s purchase of a $1.2 million home in the nation&#8217;s capital that he reportedly claimed as his primary residence.
By claiming the D.C. home as his primary residence, Swalwell qualified for millions of dollars&#8217; worth of loans and refinancing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/eric-swalwells-1-2-million-dc-home-target-of-doj-mortgage-fraud-criminal-referral/">reported</a>. His campaign has also faced scrutiny over payments made to a Haitian American staffer that totaled over $360,000 and for expenditures on luxury hotels and car services, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doj-opens-mortgage-fraud-probe-eric-swalwell-congressman-vows-keep-fighting-back">Fox News</a>.
Swalwell becomes the fourth Democrat in recent months to face mortgage fraud allegations after Pulte also sent the DOJ criminal referrals for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook. Swalwell told NBC News that the criminal referral didn’t surprise him, arguing that it is politically motivated.
&#8220;As the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade and as the only person who still has a surviving lawsuit against him, the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me,&#8221; Swalwell said.
Other Democratic lawmakers argued that the Trump administration is targeting one of the president&#8217;s most vocal critics.
&#8220;It’s no longer shocking that Trump uses his power to target an outspoken opponent—that’s the hallmark of authoritarianism. What’s remarkable is that he did it less than 24 hours after signing a bill letting 8 GOP senators embezzle $500k–$1M from taxpayers,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepLiccardo/status/1989070897932824686">wrote</a> Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA).
&#8220;Donald Trump is once again weaponizing government to punish those who speak out against his dangerous and disastrous policies. He should know my colleague @RepSwalwell is someone who never backs down or bends the knee to a tyrant,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepZoeLofgren/status/1989070929226576012">added</a> Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
For years after being elected to Congress, Swalwell struggled with finances. According to a Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/eric-swalwell-is-a-financial-mess/">report</a> from 2019, he had still failed to pay off his student loans after graduating in 2006 and had accumulated credit card debt.
Swalwell, who has been in Congress since 2013, gained notoriety for his role in pushing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax during Trump&#8217;s first term. The Democratic congressman has also been criticized over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, a relationship he had while he sat on the House Intelligence Committee.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) drew an audience of dozens to his recent livestream event, which featured a handful of Democrats complaining about — and blaming Republicans for — the government shutdown triggered by Democrat demands.
Jeffries named the event “Stop the Republican Shutdown,” went live prior to the shutdown, and stayed online after it took effect. As people checked in on him throughout the livestream, several noticed that the number of people streaming struggled to approach 200 — well below even the numbers late-night comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmels-ratings-spike-crashes-back-down-to-his-usual-terrible-numbers">Jimmy Kimmel</a> has generated since returning from suspension over his comments about assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
“Currently 152 people watching Hakeem Jeffries ’24 hour shutdown livestream’ on YouTube,” GOP communications strategist Matt Whitlock commented, sharing a screenshot that showed the number of live viewers (152) as Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) spoke.
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Currently 152 people watching Hakeem Jeffries “24 hour shutdown livestream” on YouTube. <a href="https://t.co/dmlzBUJxAf">pic.twitter.com/dmlzBUJxAf</a>
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1973232723700621708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Another screenshot shared by independent reporter Ken Klippenstein showed A.B. Burns-Tucker speaking with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who was sporting a “no kings” cap in an apparent protest of President Donald Trump. The viewer count sat at 156.
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About 20 minutes into shutdown and Hakeem Jeffries’ livestream is down to 93 viewers <a href="https://t.co/MssThRSsJb">pic.twitter.com/MssThRSsJb</a>
— Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant) (@kenklippenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1973241870718578955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A short time later, the viewer count dropped to fewer than 100.
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A screenshot shared by the Republican Party showed viewership of the stream dropping to just 66 in the 10 a.m. hour.
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Even <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/01/democrats-shutdown-livestream-00591178">Politico</a> jabbed at the debacle, with reporter Adam Wren noting that he’d watched much of the stream “so you didn&#8217;t have to,” and then laying out a series of missteps made by Democrats trying to win the messaging war over the shutdown.
“In launching the livestream, which featured the feel of a throwback telethon with none of the charisma or surprise, Jeffries and his allies seemed to tacitly acknowledge that they needed to be fighting, and sounding and looking as if they were. (‘Y’all, I ain’t scared,’ Jeffries said at one point. ‘I’m from Brooklyn.&#8217;) But few Dems seemed willing to fight on camera,” he wrote.
Wren noted that while Jeffries himself appeared — as did Swalwell and a few others — most of the party’s more prominent voices had not. In addition to the glaring absence of progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), there was a very noticeable chunk of the broadcast filled with rerun content rather than live conversation. According to Wren, despite an internal email <a href="https://x.com/reesejgorman/status/1973076184134009181">begging Democrats</a> to rally and fill the empty time slots, no one was available between 2:30 and 5:30 a.m.
A spokesperson for Jeffries claimed in a statement that the total viewership for the event was significantly higher, stating that there had been approximately 60,000 viewers across several streams and that “clips from the livestream are continuing to also generate hundreds of thousands of views and we still have more coming.”

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During a fiery showdown on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel pushed back against repeated taunts from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), declaring he would “call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress.”
Despite the fact that Patel, as FBI Director, has a massive job supervising and keeping the country safe, Swalwell began by maligning Patel because Patel said he had not read all of the voluminous Epstein files. Patel pointed out, “What I’ve been doing is been busy providing the safest country this country has seen in modern U.S. history in historic speed because the men and women of the FBI are given the resources to reduce the homicide rate, to reduce the drug trafficking rate, to reduce the amount of children that have been trafficked&#8230;”
Swalwell then obsessed on the number of times President Donald Trump’s name might have been mentioned in the Epstein files, speculating hyperbolically, starting with 1000, 500, and finally 100, which Patel denied. When Swalwell claimed that it was Patel’s job to know the exact number, Patel fired back. “My job is to provide for the safety and security of this country. My job is not to engage in political innuendo, so you can go out to the sticks and get your 20-second hits and your fundraising article,” adding, “Your fixation on this matter and baseless accusations that I’m hiding child pedo files is disgusting.”
Swalwell still wouldn’t let go of the issue, asking repeatedly if Patel had told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files, even insulting Patel by saying each word slowly in separate syllables, as if he were speaking to a child. Patel replied, “Why don’t you try spelling it out. Use the alphabet. A B C D E F, don’t want to do it?”
“You&#8217;ve played this cute shell game where you say you can&#8217;t release everything because the court has said that it legally is not allowed to be released, but the court calls bulls***,” Swalwell accused.
Finally, Swalwell moved on, saying, “Let&#8217;s move on, director. You wrote a book called ‘Government Gangsters.’ You identified 20 individuals in that book. You put me on that list, at the top of the list. Thank you. My children find it flattering. Twenty of those individuals have been investigated or have had adverse actions. Director, considering that you have identified these people as, ‘government gangsters,’ will you recuse yourself from making any investigation decisions about these individuals?”
“Anyone that has been terminated at the FBI has been done because they failed to meet the muster and their constitutional obligation,” Patel fired back. “No, no. I&#8217;m going to borrow your terminology and call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people.”
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Heated exchange between Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel on Epstein Files.
FBI Director Patel: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to borrow your terminology and call bullshit on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/diIuX7rYGu">pic.twitter.com/diIuX7rYGu</a>
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed during an interview this week that Democrats did not perform well during the election because they were &#8220;too nice and too modest.&#8221;
Swalwell&#8217;s remarks on CNN come after his party called President-elect Donald Trump a Nazi and a fascist in the weeks leading up to the election. President Joe Biden also referred to tens of millions of Trump supporters as &#8220;garbage.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I was raised as a blue-collar kid, son of a cop, a mom who worked a number of odd jobs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My brothers are cops. I was a prosecutor. And I know that people resent when you talk to them like you&#8217;re trying to win a Harvard Law School moot court competition as opposed to just, you know, talking to somebody at a bar or at the bus stop.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think we would be better served if we led with our personality rather than policy and our personalities can reflect our values, our principles, what we care about,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But too often, we&#8217;re just not plain-spoken enough.&#8221;
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&#8220;And frankly, we&#8217;re too nice and too modest and we stand on virtue,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;And I think you look at a candidate like Ruben Gallego who won in Arizona. Look, that guy went to rodeos. He went to soccer matches. He went to boxing matches. He went out to the tribes. He was himself. He was just Ruben and it worked and he beat Kari Lake in a state that Donald Trump won. And I think that&#8217;s a good model of how we can win.&#8221;
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Unbelievable.
Eric Swalwell says Democrats lost because Americans are stupid, mean, and have no morals.
&#8220;Too often we&#8217;re just not plain-spoken enough and frankly we&#8217;re too nice and too modest and stand on virtue.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tQxl9nvscK">pic.twitter.com/tQxl9nvscK</a>
— Macy Gardner (@MacyGardnerr) <a href="https://twitter.com/MacyGardnerr/status/1854577982154698775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Democrat Eric Swalwell On Why Democrats Lost: ‘We’re Too Nice And Too Modest’

Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-swalwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Swalwell</a> (D-CA) launched into an angry tirade on the House Floor on Tuesday, all over a meme that showed former President Donald Trump hugging a cat and a duck.
The meme, which had been shared by the House Judiciary Committee Republicans, was a reference to several reports that Haitian migrants were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-ohio-town-overrun-by-haitian-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overwhelming an Ohio town</a> — and had apparently been seen taking ducks from a local park to eat. Another report claimed the a migrant woman had killed and eaten a cat, although it was not confirmed that she was Haitian.
&#8220;Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!&#8221; the caption read
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Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio! <a href="https://t.co/YnTZStPnsg">pic.twitter.com/YnTZStPnsg</a>
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1833154509222129884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Swalwell was beside himself as he scolded Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), insisting that reports of illegal aliens eating pets had been &#8220;debunked.&#8221;
&#8220;What in the hell is this?&#8221; he asked, waving his hand dramatically. &#8220;The Chairman tweets, &#8216;protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio&#8217; because he goes some down — he goes down some crazy rabbit hole, completely debunked, that aliens are eating pets?&#8221;
After briefly burying his face in his hand, Swalwell continued, the pitch of his voice rising, &#8220;My God. Are you okay, Mr. Chairman? Because last year, for a very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as he was calling for genocide against the Jews and you kept it up, and now, when we have victims coming here, you&#8217;re tweeting this nonsense.&#8221;
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Swalwell put his head in his hands again.
&#8220;I — I don&#8217;t know why you would do this. I hope you&#8217;re okay,&#8221; he kept at it, apparently trying to suggest that Jordan might be hallucinating. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if the aliens who are eating your ducks are in the room with us right now, but, Mr. Chairman, this is a serious issue. These people have loved ones who have been lost, and you tweeted this.&#8221;
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Eric Swalwell just had a FULL ON MELTDOWN about cat memes&#8230;
&#8220;What in the hell is this?!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lWrj9Cq0XD">pic.twitter.com/lWrj9Cq0XD</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1833558178086457536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Later on in that same hearing, witnesses <a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1833556835871166972" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unloaded on the Democrats</a> in the committee, saying that they had been more interested in lecturing the families of the victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens than they were in proposing actual solutions.

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro took time during <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2002-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his show</a> on Thursday to rehash moments from his viral exchange with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) in a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday morning.
Shapiro was invited by the Republican-led committee to testify on the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and alleged coordination between the media and the White House to silence conservative news outlets, including The Daily Wire. After delivering a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-delivers-blistering-opening-statement-to-congress-on-cartel-silencing-conservatives?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blistering opening statement</a> on the &#8220;cartel&#8221; targeting conservative voices, Shapiro faced questions from multiple Democrats, including Swalwell, who tried to derail the hearing.
&#8220;The Democrats have been trying for the last week or so to try to misdirect away from the fact that their president is no longer sentient by shouting &#8216;Project 2025,'&#8221; Shapiro said.
&#8220;So yesterday at the hearing, I would say about half of the Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee decided to rail about Project 2025, which has literally nothing to do with the subject of this particular committee hearing,&#8221; he added. &#8220;One of the people who is doing that was Representative Eric Swalwell, who I think just wanted to have a Twitter battle, but in real life.&#8221;
During the exchange, Swalwell asked Shapiro if he supports Project 2025 to which Shapiro responded, “I think like President Trump, I haven’t looked all that deeply at Project 2025, but it seems that Democrats on this committee [think that] — sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell — if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.”
The clip of Shapiro&#8217;s response quickly went viral on social media with many conservatives praising the Daily Wire host for how he handled Swalwell&#8217;s off-topic questioning.
&#8220;They all know what I&#8217;m saying is true,&#8221; Shapiro said on his show, referring to Congressional Democrats. &#8220;This is an attempt to breathe life back into a failing candidacy. Even Swalwell had to laugh at it because, again, [it&#8217;s] true.&#8221;
Swalwell continued to trumpet the Project 2025 line on Thursday, posting, &#8220;Messaging matters: Stop saying: &#8216;Project 2025.&#8217; Say: &#8216;Trump’s Project 2025.&#8217;”
Shapiro replied to the congressman&#8217;s tweet by posting a GIF of Tinkerbell with the caption &#8220;Clap if you believe.&#8221;
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<a href="https://t.co/3AsGaIkKnM">https://t.co/3AsGaIkKnM</a> <a href="https://t.co/JXIz3CkN6d">pic.twitter.com/JXIz3CkN6d</a>
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1811468549686263809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Despite Shapiro&#8217;s quick putdown of Swalewell during the hearing, the Democratic congressman continued to use his time to ask Shapiro about Project 2025 and policies unrelated to the censorship of conservatives, on which the Daily Wire host was at the hearing to testify.
&#8220;What he&#8217;s really questioning me about, I assume, is just being a conservative,&#8221; Shapiro added. &#8220;And the idea is that being a conservative is just evil. I don&#8217;t think it went particularly well for Representative Swalwell here.&#8221;
Swalwell also brought up a past statement from Shapiro on same-sex marriage and sexual activity, and bizarrely congratulated Shapiro for &#8220;restrain[ing]&#8221; himself against a desire to sleep with women. Swalwell is widely known for reportedly getting romantically involved with a suspected Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
&#8220;I would&#8217;ve jumped in at this point and said that Eric Swalwell is probably the last person in America who should talk about the difficulty of struggling with, for example, men as a genetic matter wanting to sleep with many women,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;Eric Swalwell&#8217;s personal history is quite checkered. I decided not to bring that up in a Congressional hearing.&#8221;
&#8220;So it didn&#8217;t go amazing for Representative Swalwell,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And we hope he gets well soon.&#8221;
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George Clooney writing an op-ed calling on Biden to go &#8212; with the quiet endorsement of Barack Obama &#8212; is the reason Democrats are in trouble. Their actual political leaders are too cowardly to say the obvious. And their celebrities are leading the way.
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— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1811453751363829919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro On His Viral Pummeling Of Eric Swalwell: ‘Hope He Gets Well Soon’

Ben Shapiro On His Viral Pummeling Of Eric Swalwell: 'Hope He Gets Well Soon'

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was brutally mocked by political commentators after Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-wrecks-eric-swalwell-after-dem-congressman-tries-to-derail-hearing?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lambasted</a> him during a House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-delivers-blistering-opening-statement-to-congress-on-cartel-silencing-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Wednesday.
Swalwell attempted to derail the committee hearing that featured Shapiro testifying on an alleged conspiracy to silence conservative media outlets by asking the Daily Wire host questions on unrelated policy positions. The California Democrat began his line of questioning by asking if Shapiro supported the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, a proposed set of presidential transition policies that the Left has recently focused on in an attempt to paint conservatives and Donald Trump as extremists.
“The country in the last couple of weeks has talked about, googled Project 2025 … and you’re not going to get any censorship from me, so I just wanted to know from your perspective, I think it would help us understand, on just like a scale of 0-100 percent, how much do you support Project 2025?” Swalwell asked.
“I think like President Trump, I haven’t looked all that deeply at Project 2025,” Shapiro replied. “But it seems that Democrats on this committee [think that] — sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell — if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.”
Swalwell — who is best known for reportedly engaging in a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy named Fang Fang — continued to pepper Shapiro with policy questions on issues such as immigration, abortion, and social security. The Daily Wire editor emeritus promptly answered Swalwell&#8217;s questions while asking the congressman why they were relevant to the topic of the hearing. The congressman then brought out a poster that displayed a 2018 quote of Shapiro calling homosexual activity “a sin.”
“Yes, I’m a religious Jew. You found me out,” Shapiro said. “I agree with me. Yes, that’s true.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSwalwell</a> attempts to spar with <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>. It doesn&#8217;t end well for China&#8217;s spy guy.
FULL EXCHANGE: <a href="https://t.co/Fp3R4n42Ac">pic.twitter.com/Fp3R4n42Ac</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1811077162461442250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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After Swalwell&#8217;s time was up, acting Judiciary Committee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) eviscerated his Democratic colleague.
&#8220;The gentleman&#8217;s time is expired, and I remind him the first rule of holes: when you&#8217;re in one, stop digging,&#8221; McClintock said.
The exchange quickly went viral on social media, and numerous conservatives chimed in, applauding Shapiro&#8217;s response to Swalwell.
&#8220;I want to 👏👏👏 @benshapiro, but his evisceration of@RepSwalwell — which didn’t even bring up Fang Fang b/c Ben is a gentleman — was like watching a Mike Tyson-Swalwell fight. Not fair at all,&#8221; radio host Hugh Hewitt <a href="https://x.com/hughhewitt/status/1811105746290901147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. &#8220;So 👏👏👏 for Chairman @RepMcClintock for sticking the dismount on Swalwell’s forehead.&#8221;
&#8220;Swalwell should have remembered that old Sean Connery line: Don&#8217;t bring a knife to a gunfight,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/seanspicer/status/1811112878524825894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Sean Spicer.
&#8220;@benshapiro is a national treasure 🤣,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/marcthiessen/status/1811123033672933670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen.

Eric Swalwell Dragged On Social Media After Picking Fight With Ben Shapiro

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was torched by Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on Wednesday after the Democrat attempted to derail a Judiciary Committee hearing that featured Shapiro testifying on an alleged conspiracy to silence conservative media outlets.
Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-delivers-blistering-opening-statement-to-congress-on-cartel-silencing-conservatives?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> shortly after the Republican-led committee released a report on Wednesday morning accusing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of strategizing to censor conservative content, including from The Daily Wire.
At one point during the hearing, Swalwell pushed to turn the attention away from GARM and onto Shapiro&#8217;s religious and political beliefs, asking the Daily Wire host if he supports Project 2025, a proposed set of presidential transition policies put forward by the Heritage Foundation that the Left has recently focused on to paint former President Donald Trump and conservatives as extremists.
&#8220;Mr. Shapiro, thank you for joining us today. I think it is important that you&#8217;re here as one of the leading conservative voices in the country,&#8221; Swalwell said. &#8220;And the country in the last couple of weeks has talked about, googled Project 2025 &#8230; and you&#8217;re not going to get any censorship from me, so I just wanted to know from your perspective, I think it would help us understand, on just like a scale of 0-100 percent, how much do you support Project 2025?&#8221;
&#8220;I think like President Trump, I haven&#8217;t looked all that deeply at Project 2025,&#8221; Shapiro replied. &#8220;But it seems that Democrats on this committee [think that] — sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell — if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: &#8220;It seems that Democrats on this committee think that—sort of like Peter Pan and Tinkerbell—if they say Project 2025 enough, their presidential candidate becomes alive again.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/JI1PcFckvj">pic.twitter.com/JI1PcFckvj</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1811074780843401395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Swalwell, who was reportedly involved in a long-term romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, went on to ask Shapiro where he stands on a range of issues, from deportation and immigration to abortion pills and same-sex marriage. Shapiro succinctly responded to the Democratic congressman&#8217;s policy questions and added, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m testifying on immigration policy at this point.&#8221;
Swalwell also brought out a poster that displayed a 2018 quote of Shapiro calling homosexual activity &#8220;a sin.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, I&#8217;m a religious Jew. You found me out,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;I agree with me. Yes, that&#8217;s true.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSwalwell</a> attempts to spar with <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>. It doesn&#8217;t end well for China&#8217;s spy guy.
FULL EXCHANGE: <a href="https://t.co/Fp3R4n42Ac">pic.twitter.com/Fp3R4n42Ac</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1811077162461442250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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During Shapiro&#8217;s opening statement before the committee, he told lawmakers about a &#8220;cartel&#8221; acting to stamp out conservative voices through arbitrary standards.
“GARM purportedly sets ‘brand safety’ standards – objective standards by which advertisers and platforms can supposedly determine just what sort of content ought to be deemed ‘safe’ for advertising,” he said. “In reality, GARM acts as a cartel. Its members account for 90 percent of ad spending in the United States — almost $1 trillion. In other words, if you’re not getting ad dollars from GARM members, it’s nearly impossible to run an ad-based business.”

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Ben Shapiro Wrecks Eric Swalwell After Dem Congressman Tries To Derail Hearing

The Daily Wire has exclusively obtained a newsletter from the office of Joe Biden’s National intelligence director. Joe Biden, or as he’s sometimes called &#8220;The Big Guy,&#8221; is, of course, the rhododendron currently running the free world on behalf of the Chinese, which is only fair since they&#8217;ve paid him a bundle in bribes. His Director of National Intelligence is Avril Haines, whose pronouns are “wang tsi co mao soy fang fang chu” and who served under CIA Director John Brennan, a communist, when the president was Barack Obama, an anti-American globalist. 
But not to worry, during her confirmation hearing, DNI Fang Fang reassured congress there were only some areas where she wanted to co-operate with the Chinese, like in collecting The Big Guy’s money and depositing it in one of his twenty shell companies so he has plausible deniability while he’s handing our border to Mexican cartels, who kill Americans with fentanyl, then launder their profits with the Chinese mafia inside the U.S.
 What was I talking about? Oh, yeah.
According to The Daily Wire’s crack investigative reporter Spencer Crack, DNI Fang Fang’s office puts out a newsletter called The Dive — DIVE — which guides the FBI, CIA and NSA on matters of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion — DEI — so that our intelligence officers can better keep America free for the untraceable banking of Chinese bribes.
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According to DNI Fang Fang’s newsletter, when American intelligence officers are reporting on terrorist threats, they should stop describing… I’m not making this up — they should stop describing the terrorists with phrases that may be hurtful to Muslim-Americans.
Now, the Daily Wire’s crack reporter Crack has also obtained secret files that describe a real-life incident in which DNI’s DEI DIVE helped CIA, FBI and NSA perform their duties.
Recently one of our top CIA Agents, Wong Fu Chi, received a warning that a young Iranian man was about to blow himself up on Wall Street while shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221;, thereby potentially damaging our banking system and preventing President Big Guy from collecting his money from China and secreting it in one of his twenty shell companies. Though it was the dead of night, Agent Wong quickly called DNI Fang Fang where she was sleeping at Congressman Eric Swalwell’s house to report that The Big Guy’s cash was facing a jihadist threat. DNI Fang Fang immediately dropped her riding crop, leapt out of bed and instructed Agent Wong that he should re-file his report after first removing the word “jihadist” which might offend some Muslim-Americans. Dutifully starting over, Agent Wong then said, “A young man from a foreign nation that intends to destroy the world in order to hasten the arrival of the Twelfth Imam or, sorry, I should just say the Twelfth Non-denominational Clergyman named Mohammed al-Mahdi or maybe just Bob al-Mahdi or let’s just call him Pastor Bob…” Unfortunately, at this point, Agent Wong’s report was interrupted by a shout of &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; followed by a tremendous explosion.
In another helpful edition of the DNI’s DEI DIVE to FBI, CIA and NSA, the newsletter tells the touching story of an American intelligence officer who says — and as God is my witness this is a real quote from the DNI newsletter: “I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes. My gender identity and expression make me a better intelligence officer.”
The officer goes on to explain that cross-dressing not only makes his intelligence work more incisive but also more becoming in a pink chiffon mini sundress with a naughty but nice sweetheart neckline that’s simply perfect for reporting on young foreign-born males who want to hasten the coming of the twelfth non-denominational clergyman Pastor Bob…  But at this point, the article is interrupted by a shout of &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; followed by a tremendous explosion.
So, as you can see, we can all rest easy at night knowing that Congressman Swalwell’s mistress DNI Fang Fang has a cross-dressing Communist CIA Agent keeping watch to make sure no one uses offensive language while President Big Guy is being paid by China with the money they make laundering the profits Mexican gangsters collect for killing Americans.
All that said, I’ll now begin my satire.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1174-the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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