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'Not an accident': Target of death threats points to way GOP can end Trump retribution vow

The target of dozens of death threats linked to the MAGA movement made a public plea to Republicans to halt Donald Trump’s vow of retribution Friday. “The presidential election cycle wasn’t just about re-election: It was about avoiding justice and more importantly, for him, punishing those who oppose him,” Swalwell wrote. 1 among conservatives and their lives will be turned …

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2 weeks ago

'Pit bulls of retribution': Swalwell braces for Trump admin after 'gross abuse'

Raw Story

A new watchdog report released Tuesday revealed that the Department of Justice under the first Donald Trump administration secretly obtained phone records for members of Congress, journalists, government staffers and incoming FBI director nominee Kash Patel — actions the top House Judiciary Democrat exclusively told Raw Story are a "gross abuse" of power worthy of investigation. "My suspicion alert level …

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1 month ago

'Betrayal of our flag': Lawmaker says federal workers are 'embarrassed' by Trump's Cabinet

Raw Story

Rep. Eric Swalwell tore into Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Wednesday, saying the government could fall apart simply by virtue of the people below them not taking them seriously. He took particular aim at Trump's nomination to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, whose sexual misconduct allegation has caused the Trump team to scramble — …

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1 month ago

'My Republican friends are laughing': Trump told that own party members mock his decisions

Raw Story

Republican lawmakers are laughing at President-elect Donald Trump and the "clown" he wants to see appointed the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell. Swalwell on Wednesday scoffed at Trump's chosen attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and his attempts to bury a potentially damning Ethics committee report on accusations he had sex with a minor. "This …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Eric Swalwell Makes Dire Plea To Americans 'Fighting' Back Against Trump Threat

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Rep. Eric Swalwell called on Americans to not give up in an urgent message on Thursday following President-elect Donald Trump’s election win. And if a high school student who’s going to go to school today in a country that’s going to arm mass shooters to the teeth and they’re still going to get through it, we can …

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5 months ago

'America's Hitler': Eric Swalwell throws Vance's attack on Trump in GOP's face at hearing

Raw Story

Rep. Eric Swalwell reminded his Republican colleagues that their vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, called former President Donald Trump "Hitler" before an assassination attempt. At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday, Swalwell said Republicans had tried to use the attempted assassination of Trump to "erase" the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. "One member …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Eric Swalwell Blasts House Republican For ‘Living On Fantasy Island’ Over Trump Claim

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Rep. Eric Swalwell took down Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Thursday over how he discussed former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case compared to his talk of President Joe Biden’s handling of documents. Van Drew, in remarks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, argued that Trump was president when he brought documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate and …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Eric Swalwell Goes Viral For Blistering Takedown Of GOP ‘Cult’ Of Trump

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A clip of Rep. Eric Swalwell skewering his Republican colleagues over their devotion to former President Donald Trump went viral on Tuesday. “If you believe in states’ rights, except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president, you might be in a cult,” Swalwell told his colleagues. “If you claim you ‘back the blue’ …

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9 months ago

'Hell and chaos': Lawmaker says Trump has unleashed a mob 'terrorizing' law enforcement

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump has created a climate in which both lawmakers and law enforcement officials are being constantly harassed, threatened, and put in fear for their own safety, Rep. Eric Swalwell said on MSNBC Thursday. Swalwell, who has been subject to numerous death threats on himself and his family for his work investigating Trump, reacted in particular to reporting …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Florida man charged with threatening to kill US Rep Eric Swalwell and his children

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Ridiculed by many’: Rep. Dean Phillips is the Dem presidential candidate no Dem wants

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dean Phillips has a presidential tour bus and a welcoming slogan — “Everyone’s Invited!” — but no one in Washington seems to even care about his longshot primary challenge to President Joe Biden. “Dean’s a classmate — we came in together,” Pressley finally told Raw Story. “There’d be a case more than, ‘He’s too old,’” Pocan said, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

'It's easy to discredit him': Dem lays out blueprint for taking down Jim Jordan

Raw Story

Rep. Eric Swalwell encouraged his colleagues to seriously crack down on Rep. Jim Jordan's partisanship while leading Judiciary Committee hearings. "You had quite a moment this week at a hearing where Attorney General Merrick Garland was testifying," MSNBC host Jen Psaki told Swalwell in a Sunday interview. "We don't punch back hard enough," he replied. And Jordan, it's easy to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Why are America's politicians so old — and does age matter in politics?

ABC

Sometimes, the moments that go the most viral are also the most difficult to watch. "I think that the Mitch McConnell situation hurts Joe Biden more than it hurts the Republican Party," Republican pollster and Bellwether Research president Christine Matthews said. America's 'most privileged nursing home' Donald Trump is careful to distinguish age from acuity when attacking Joe Biden, aware …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Jim Jordan trolled by Democrat over Hunter Biden plea deal freakout

Raw Story

Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday lashed out at the Hunter Biden plea deal involving misdemeanors, only to have the situation thrown back in his face by a Democratic colleague. Jordan, who is reportedly leading a GOP push to cripple the "fight against disinformation" ahead of the 2024 election, posted only "DOUBLE STANDARD OF JUSTICE" in all caps on Twitter. The …

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1 year, 9 months ago

‘Defying his own standard‘: Eric Swalwell pummels Jim Jordan at hearing on subpoena compliance

Raw Story

A Democratic congressman on Thursday called out House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan alleging hypocrisy after Jordan issued subpoenas in connection with investigations into the Justice Department and the FBI, noting that Jordan himself last year defied a congressional subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Jordan earlier this week threatened to subpoena 16 more FBI witnesses in connection with a probe …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Watch: Greene gets schooled after her ‘divorced from reality’ rant at House Homeland Security hearing

Raw Story

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got taken to task by Rep. Eric Swalwell for using fentanyl seizures to suggest President Joe Biden was failing to keep drugs out of the country. "I think China has blood on its hands for the fentanyl crisis because, as a number of people have said overwhelmingly, this fentanyl is coming through points of entry and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Watch: Swalwell rips Republicans at House hearing for 'cheering on chaos'

Raw Story

Rep. Eric Swalwell ripped his Republican colleagues for seemingly "cheering on chaos" by hyping drug busts at the border to attack President Joe Biden. The California politician questioned Sheriff Mark Dannels, of Cochise County, Arizona, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on the "Biden border crisis," the first in a series, and the law enforcement officer agreed that illegal …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Kevin McCarthy Denies Intelligence Committee Seats To Eric Swalwell And Adam Schiff

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has avenged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by blocking two Democrats from serving on a House committee. McCarthy announced Tuesday he would refuse to seat Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff of California on the House Intelligence Committee — pure political payback for Democrats removing Greene and Rep. Paul Gosar from committees in …

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1 year, 11 months ago

McCarthy bans Schiff, Swalwell from House Intelligence Committee

LA Times

In one of his first acts as speaker, Kevin McCarthy made good on his pledge to remove two California Democrats from the House Intelligence panel. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday blocked fellow California Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from continuing to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “I appreciate the loyalty you have to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

'Insurrection LLC': Eric Swalwell torches Kevin McCarthy for governing based on 'Trump's grievances'

Raw Story

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy may have booted Rep. Eric Swalwell from his committee assignments in the House of Representatives, but that's apparently left the California Democrat with more time to trash McCarthy publicly during MSNBC appearances. While being interviewed by host Nicolle Wallace, Swalwell criticized McCarthy's actions during his first month as House Speaker. He also said that McCarthy has …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Lauren Boebert calls for 'conspiracy theorists' Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to be ousted from Intel Committee

Raw Story

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert accused California Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of being "conspiracy theorists" and said they should be removed from the House Intelligence Committee, Newsweek reports. As Newsweek points out, Schiff has been accused by Republicans for pushing false claims surrounding former President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier into …

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2 years ago

'That was not on our account!' Jim Jordan gets defensive after being cornered over pro-Kanye tweet

Raw Story

Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday found himself on the defensive when Rep. Eric Swalwell cornered him over the House Republican Judiciary Committee's since-deleted tweet praising Holocaust-denying rapper Kanye West. During a contentious exchange in the House of Representatives, Swalwell asked Jordan if he would repudiate former President Donald Trump for demanding that parts of the United States Constitution be "terminated" …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Swalwell says man called his office saying he would show up with an assault rifle to kill him

Daily Mail

Rep. Eric Swalwell blasted former President Donald Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after a man called the California Democrat's office and threatened to kill him with an assault weapon. 'A staffer of mine - who's 1 month into her job - received a call from a man saying he’s coming to our office w/ an assault rifle to …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Watch a stunned Eric Swalwell learn about report Trump had 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Raw Story

Ever since the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on August 8, pundits in the right-wing media have been portraying the search and the federal investigation that goes with it as a politically motivated persecution. But at mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, MSNBC, the Washington Post and CNN, reporters have …

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'Not an accident': Target of death threats points to way GOP can end Trump retribution vow

'Pit bulls of retribution': Swalwell braces for Trump admin after 'gross abuse'

'Betrayal of our flag': Lawmaker says federal workers are 'embarrassed' by Trump's Cabinet

'My Republican friends are laughing': Trump told that own party members mock his decisions

Eric Swalwell Makes Dire Plea To Americans 'Fighting' Back Against Trump Threat

'America's Hitler': Eric Swalwell throws Vance's attack on Trump in GOP's face at hearing

Eric Swalwell Blasts House Republican For ‘Living On Fantasy Island’ Over Trump Claim

Eric Swalwell Goes Viral For Blistering Takedown Of GOP ‘Cult’ Of Trump

'Hell and chaos': Lawmaker says Trump has unleashed a mob 'terrorizing' law enforcement

Florida man charged with threatening to kill US Rep Eric Swalwell and his children

‘Ridiculed by many’: Rep. Dean Phillips is the Dem presidential candidate no Dem wants

'It's easy to discredit him': Dem lays out blueprint for taking down Jim Jordan

Why are America's politicians so old — and does age matter in politics?

Jim Jordan trolled by Democrat over Hunter Biden plea deal freakout

‘Defying his own standard‘: Eric Swalwell pummels Jim Jordan at hearing on subpoena compliance

Watch: Greene gets schooled after her ‘divorced from reality’ rant at House Homeland Security hearing

Watch: Swalwell rips Republicans at House hearing for 'cheering on chaos'

Kevin McCarthy Denies Intelligence Committee Seats To Eric Swalwell And Adam Schiff

McCarthy bans Schiff, Swalwell from House Intelligence Committee

'Insurrection LLC': Eric Swalwell torches Kevin McCarthy for governing based on 'Trump's grievances'

Lauren Boebert calls for 'conspiracy theorists' Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to be ousted from Intel Committee

'That was not on our account!' Jim Jordan gets defensive after being cornered over pro-Kanye tweet

Swalwell says man called his office saying he would show up with an assault rifle to kill him

Watch a stunned Eric Swalwell learn about report Trump had 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago