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Swalwell Blames Trump for Leaking China Spy Information

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Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell has responded to claims that he was one of several politicians who was involved with an alleged Chinese spy, and blames President Donald Trump for leaking the information.

On Monday, Axios revealed a yearlong investigation into allegations that a Chinese national, Christine Fang, developed close relationships with U.S. politicians as a way to gain access to and influence U.S. political circles.

Fang reportedly helped fundraise for Swalwell’s re-election campaign, put at least one intern into his office and was seen with him at several political events.

While Fang supposedly interacted with other current members of the House, including Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Rep. Ro Khanna, as well as two midwest mayors, Swalwell believes the information was leaked to target him.

“I’ve been a critic of the president. I’ve spoken out against him. I was on both committees that worked to impeach him,” Swalwell told Politico Tuesday. “The timing feels like that should be looked at.”

Swalwell said he first became aware that Axios was investigating his ties to Fang in July 2019, just as his his brief and unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination was ending.

“What it appears though that this person — as the story reports — was unsuccessful in whatever they were trying to do. But if intelligence officials are trying to weaponize someone’s cooperation, they are essentially seeking to do what this person was not able to do, which is to try and discredit someone,” Swalwell said.

According to Politico, Swalwell “refused to discuss his relationship with Fang.”

He did, however, remain confident that he will maintain his seat on the House Intelligence Committee.

“As the story referenced, this goes back to the beginning of the last decade, and it’s something that congressional leadership knew about it,” Swalwell told Politico.

Donald Trump Jr. criticized Swalwell on Twitter, asking how this “compromised individual/moron” continues to sit on an intelligence committee.

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Report: Beijing’s military hacked U.S. nuclear firm before Hunter Biden aided Chinese bid to acquire it

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A bombshell report by Just the News explains that “U.S. officials were acutely aware that Beijing was trying to obtain America’s premiere nuclear reactor technology, including through illicit hacking, months before Hunter Biden and his business partners sought to arrange a quiet sale of an iconic U.S. reactor company to a Chinese firm, according to court records and national security experts.”

Hunter Biden attempted to assist CEFC China Energy to acquire Westinghouse, one of America’s most famous electricity and appliance brands, as well as its state-the-art AP1000 nuclear reactor.

Hunter began his work with the Chinese company in early 2016 – while Joe Biden was the sitting Vice President – memos show. According to a copy of the indictment, just 20 months earlier, his father’s Justice Department charged five members of a Chinese military hacking unit for breaching the company’s computer systems in search of intellectual property and internal strategy communications.

Just the News reports:

In May 2014, the five operatives of the People’s Liberation Army’s Unit 61398 were charged with hacking into the systems of six U.S.-based companies across different industrial sectors, including Westinghouse Electric Co., SolarWorld, United States Steel Corp., and a union. The attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, called the breach a classic case of “economic espionage.”

One operative gained access to Westinghouse’s computers in 2010 and “stole proprietary and confidential technical and design specifications related to pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing” pertaining to the company’s advanced AP1000 nuclear reactor design, according to an indictment filed by the Department of Justice.

“Among other things, such specifications would enable a competitor to build a plant similar to the AP1000 without incurring significant research and development costs associated with designing similar pipes, pipe supports, and pipe routing systems,” the indictment reads.

Just the News notes that while there is no evidence at the moment that Hunter Biden was aware of or involved in the hacking efforts by the Chinese, documents previously released by Congress in the Biden impeachment inquiry show Hunter Biden wrote in one text message in 2017 that he believed one of the CEFC officials he worked with, Patrick Ho, was the “f—ing spy chief” of China.

Ho was later indicted in the U.S. and charged with corruption. Joe Biden’s brother James told the FBI he believed CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming had a relationship with China’s communist president.

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