Top Democrat Claims Ignorance About Swalwell’s Ties to Purported Chinese Spy
Swalwell has been pictured with Christine Fang, who is reportedly a Chinese operative.
Asked whether Swalwell should step down from the House Intelligence Committee until the extent of the relationship is known, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) immediately turned to President Donald Trump.
“I don’t know about the committee. But I know that this president has some ties to” Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia, Clyburn said during an appearance on Fox News “Your World.”
Host Neil Cavuto pressed Clyburn again on the Swalwell issue.
As Defund the Police Loses Luster Activists Assess Joe Biden s Prospects for Police Reform
On 12/21/20 at 4:56 PM EST
The day after cable networks projected Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a staunch Biden ally, made sure to lay blame at the feet of the defund the police movement for Democratic losses in Congress.
He said he and the late John Lewis concluded, it had the possibilities of doing to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what Burn, baby, burn did to us back in 1960.
Biden, and even President Barack Obama, would follow suit in pointing to the potential of the movement that arose to national prominence after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, to divide rather than bring people under its banner.
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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), on behalf of the The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, has issued subpoenas for HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CDC Director Robert Redfield. In the letter, Clyburn demands that the officials produce any documents related to claims that the HHS interfered with scientific work conducted by career officials at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. The subpoenas were necessary because the Select Subcommittee’s investigation has
revealed that efforts to interfere with scientific work at CDC were far more extensive and
dangerous than previously known, Clyburn writes. Documents recently obtained by the Subcommittee show that