{"id":939728,"date":"2021-10-30T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939728"},"modified":"2021-10-30T00:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:28:45","slug":"rep-eric-swalwell-falls-for-failed-virginia-tiki-torch-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-eric-swalwell-falls-for-failed-virginia-tiki-torch-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell Falls for Failed Virginia Tiki Torch Hoax\u00a0"},"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\">20<\/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%2Frep-eric-swalwell-falls-for-failed-virginia-tiki-torch-hoax%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=939728&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\/2021\/10\/apr15-2021-Rep-Eric-Swalwell-ca-mask-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, fell for and promoted the tiki torch hoax during the Virginia governor\u2019s race on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirds of a feather,\u201d tweeted Swalwell in response to a now-deleted post that called a photo of five tiki torch-wielding democrats \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5438596491228\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He fell for the Russia hoax, got duped by the Chinese honeypot \u2026 Who wants to tell him? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JCCR1VqK0Y\">pic.twitter.com\/JCCR1VqK0Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArthurSchwartz\/status\/1454220720809160704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many users on social media called out Swalwell for promoting the tiki torch stunt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9421487603306\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did the Chinese ever pull a honeypot over on you? It&#8217;s a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1454149086282596353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.293375394322\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Either The Lincoln Project took the rap for the Democrat party, or The Lincoln Project was responsible for a hoax that was amplified by the McAuliffe campaign, members of the corporate media, and Eric Swalwell, a Democrat congressman who sits on the Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1454205861639843846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News\u2019s Tucker Carlson was unsurprised Swalwell fell for the hoax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/08\/report-chinese-spy-developed-extensive-ties-with-democrat-intelligence-committee-member-eric-swalwell\/\">noting<\/a> Swalwell\u2019s past romantic involvement with Chinese&nbsp;spy&nbsp;Christine Fang.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.2802197802198\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s not surprising that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericswalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ericswalwell<\/a> fell for today\u2019s hoax. He\u2019s not a very bright human being <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a0QaxRPNlr\">pic.twitter.com\/a0QaxRPNlr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1454242663591563267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was revealed later on Friday that a prominent pro-Democrat group, The Lincoln Project, was&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/lincoln-project-takes-responsibility-for-tiki-torch-hoax-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">behind<\/a>&nbsp;the hoax, working in tandem with Democrat&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawindsor\/status\/1454211815806619651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operative<\/a>&nbsp;Lauren Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s failed tiki torch hoax attempted to link Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin\u2019s campaign to white supremacists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1529411764706\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glenn Youngkin is so racist the Lincoln Project had to manufacture a hoax to make him look racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Charles, Critical Race Pimp (@JeffOnTheRight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffOnTheRight\/status\/1454250282574098435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Throwing out accusations of racist campaigning and criticizing Youngkin for \u201cracist dog whistles\u201d has become a key component of McAuliffe\u2019s strategy going into the last weekend before election day.<\/p>\n<p>After Youngkin released a campaign ad featuring a Virginia parent who is opposed to critical race theory being taught in schools, McAuliffe claimed Youngkin\u2019s message is \u201ca racist dog whistle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the final week of this race, Glenn Youngkin has doubled down on the same divisive culture wars that have fueled his campaign from the very beginning,\u201d McAuliffe said in a statement on Monday. \u201cYoungkin\u2019s closing message of book banning and silencing esteemed Black authors is a racist dog whistle designed to gin up support from the most extreme elements of his party \u2014 mainly his top endorser and surrogate, Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McAullife\u2019s support in the polls continues to go down as Youngkin surges to his first lead of the election season. According to a Fox News&nbsp;poll<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/youngkin-ahead-virginia-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> released<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday, Youngkin leads McAuliffe by eight points, with 53 percent compared to McAuliffe\u2019s 45 percent support among likely voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, fell for and promoted the tiki torch hoax during the Virginia governor\u2019s race on Friday. \u201cBirds &#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-939728","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\/939728","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=939728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939728\/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=939728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}