And I’m looking forward to full on flames.
Headline on the front page of the NYPost:
Dem rep’s $1.2 million DC home target of DOJ mortgage fraud criminal referral
We’re almost getting to the point where “politician charged with mortgage fraud” is the new “car bomb explodes in Beirut”.
But this one is special.
You may remember Eric Swalwell for such hits as “banging a Chinese spy”:
In January 2023, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) kicked Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee, following reports three years prior that a suspected Chinese spy had infiltrated the congressman’s campaign — and got close to him.
Fang Fang, also known as Christine Fang, was a purported honeytrap who entered the US from China as a college student in 2011 — but allegedly spent the next four years wooing state and federal lawmakers to potentially obtain sensitive government intelligence.
At least two mayors of midwestern US cities had a romantic or sexual relationship with her, a US intelligence official and former elected official told Axios in 2020.
You may also remember Rep. Swalwell for threatening to use nuclear weapons against gun owners.
If Rep. Swalwell is convicted (and as much as I despise the man, he is still entitled to the presumption of innocence) he will, of course, lose all rights to own guns. I assume this includes any access he may have to nuclear weapons.