{"id":1206082,"date":"2022-01-10T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206082"},"modified":"2022-01-10T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:50:26","slug":"triggered-swalwell-claims-mccarthy-targeting-him-for-committee-removal-because-hes-effective-not-due-to-fang-fang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/triggered-swalwell-claims-mccarthy-targeting-him-for-committee-removal-because-hes-effective-not-due-to-fang-fang\/","title":{"rendered":"Triggered: Swalwell Claims McCarthy Targeting Him for Committee Removal Because He&#039;s &#039;Effective&#039; &#8212; Not Due to Fang Fang"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftriggered-swalwell-claims-mccarthy-targeting-him-for-committee-removal-because-hes-effective-not-due-to-fang-fang%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/eric-swalwell-fang-fang-vertical-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) responded to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s threat to remove him from his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) if McCarthy becomes Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will not be serving there,\u201d McCarthy said about Swalwell\u2019s service on the HPSCI in an exclusive&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/10\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-plans-to-strip-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-eric-swalwell-and-adam-schiff-off-intelligence-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>&nbsp;with Breitbart News. Swalwell&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSwalwell\/status\/1480633509773557760?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in response to McCarthy\u2019s threats:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>McCarthy is targeting me for 1 reason: I\u2019m effective. He wants to carry water (&amp; sort Starbursts) for Trump\u2019s Big Lie &amp; not be called out. He\u2019s projecting onto me b\/c he\u2019s incapable of facing down the Ku Klux Klan elements in his caucus. If he thinks he\u2019s silencing me, he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McCarthy is targeting me for 1 reason: I\u2019m effective. He wants to carry water (&amp; sort Starbursts) for Trump\u2019s Big Lie &amp; not be called out. He\u2019s projecting onto me b\/c he\u2019s incapable of facing down the Ku Klux Klan elements in his caucus. If he thinks he\u2019s silencing me, he\u2019s not. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43OcNj3mWk\">https:\/\/t.co\/43OcNj3mWk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSwalwell\/status\/1480633509773557760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Swalwell came under fire in December 2020 after it was revealed he had a long-running affair with a woman named Fang Fang, whom intelligence community officials identified as a Chinese Communist Party spy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Swalwell is not the only prominent Democrat McCarthy plans to divest of their committee assignments.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy said that as Speaker of the House, he would also strip Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Adam Schiff of their committee assignments, citing certain controversies and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-CA) unprecedented refusal to seat McCarthy\u2019s nominations for the January 6 select committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Adam Schiff\u2014he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process, and doesn\u2019t have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy added that \u201cIlhan Omar should not be serving on Foreign Affairs.\u201d Omar has consistently made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/3\/6\/18251639\/ilhan-omar-israel-anti-semitism-jews\">antisemitic<\/a> comments about Israel, a key Middle East ally of the U.S., and said \u201csome people did something,\u201d about 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Rep. Omar declined to comment, according to&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mccarthy-schiff-swalwell-omar-committees-81e1fddc-66dd-4894-854c-5207bcb4ea4f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) responded to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s threat to remove him from his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) if McCarthy becomes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}