On Friday, Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, who’s currently running for governor of California, threatened Trump administration FBI agents who refuse to turn against the administration.
Swalwell is currently enraged because FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly working to release old case files pertaining to the Democrat’s infamous relationship with the Chinese spy nicknamed Fang Fang.
Swalwell and his sycophantic media allies, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, have tried to portray Patel’s interest in the case as an example of the Trump administration targeting him politically for the purposes of interfering in the California gubernatorial race.
The congressman repeated this refrain Friday on CNN:
Swalwell is now threatening to haul FBI agents who don’t “come forward right now” before congress if Democrats retake the House:
“To the FBI agents who are being asked to break the law every single day. What we want to make clear, and I know this comes from Jamie Raskin and… pic.twitter.com/1BmREOMsVN
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 3, 2026
“The FBI is focused on interfering in a California governor’s race where I am leading, when they should just be focused on the homeland,” Swalwell said.
“And it looks like from the Washington Post and New York Times’ reporting that they were tipped off by FBI agents who were alarmed that the president and the FBI director would use the FBI to try and interfere in an election 30 days before Californians start voting,” he added.
When CNN host Pamela Brown then asked Swalwell for his thoughts on the FBI backing off from its Epstein investigation, he snapped, going so far as to threaten any FBI agent who doesn’t go turncoat, saying that if they don’t backstab the administration now, they’ll pay the price once Democrats take over Congress and “everything comes out.”
“And it’s not just all that’s going to come out on Epstein, it’s all going to come out,” he said. “And so, to the FBI agents who are being asked to break the law every single day … you will be protected if you come forward right now.”
“If you do not come forward right now and you enable more corruption on Epstein or the weaponization, you will be before Congress, and it will all come out,” he added.
Swalwell was then asked for evidence proving that “FBI agents are being asked to break the law every single day.”
The congressman responded by pointing to Patel’s interest in reopening the case against him.
“Well, the Washington Post reporting and the New York Times reporting that they are being asked to essentially collude with the Chinese government to interfere in the California governor’s race,” he said.
Critics had a field day mocking him for his hypocrisy:
If he didn’t sleep with a Chinese spy then why does the FBI have a file on it?
— Buffy Demel (@BDemel13447) April 4, 2026
He’s desperate. He knows his political career is going to end once they release the Fang Fang documents.
— Ronald Camillo (@ronald_camillo) April 4, 2026
Haul them in front of congress for what, exactly? The agents are finally following and enforcing the law. Which, of course, chinese lover deep state libtarded Swallowwell doesn’t like.
— Tom Wilk 🇺🇸🐝 (@TomWilk2) April 3, 2026
@RepSwalwell didn’t seem too concerned when Trump taxes were leaked, Mar a Lago raided or FBI going through Melania’s lingerie drawers or Barron’s room not to mention the millions in legal fees and the fake affairs.
— Sunchaser (@Sunchasegirl) April 3, 2026
If the information the fbi has about @RepSwalwell and the chinese spy is so damaging it would harm his run for governor, then it is certainly damaging enough that China could use that info to blackmail/control the potential future governor of California. It must be released.
— Michael (@mjdppr) April 3, 2026
Swalwell’s threat comes days after he sent a cease-and-desist letter to Patel in which he claimed that the release of his case files would amount to an abuse of power.
“[A]s my lawyer, one of our lawyers told me today, and this really kind of stops you right in your tracks, he said, ‘If they do this, it will be the greatest abuse of power by an FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover,'” he wrote.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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