Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said the Democratic Party is distancing itself from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) after exhausting his role to “take out” President Donald Trump.
Swalwell suspended his bid for governor of California on Sunday night following a weekend of multiple women accusing him of sexual misconduct. The lawmaker faced bipartisan calls to drop his campaign, and others are also urging him to resign from Congress.
Concha noted that a San Francisco journalist said the allegations against Swalwell “have been an open secret for years” but only became public knowledge this month. He added that the media “certainly didn’t do its job” in investigating Swalwell.
“Obviously, those allegations of his affair with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, that still didn’t stop leaders of the Democratic Party, to your point earlier, from elevating him to the House Intel Committee?” Concha told host Stuart Varney Monday on Fox Business’s Varney & Co.
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