{"id":70399,"date":"2026-03-30T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/democrats-decry-smear-as-trump-fbi-pushes-for-release-of-eric-swalwell-file\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:57:11","slug":"democrats-decry-smear-as-trump-fbi-pushes-for-release-of-eric-swalwell-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/democrats-decry-smear-as-trump-fbi-pushes-for-release-of-eric-swalwell-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats decry \u2018smear\u2019 as Trump FBI pushes for release of Eric Swalwell file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California governor contender not accused of wrongdoing in decade-old inquiry into suspected Chinese agent<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has reportedly been pushing to release records from an FBI investigation related to Eric Swalwell and alleged links to a Chinese agent as the Democratic congressman makes gains in the California governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/28\/fbi-patel-eric-swalwell\/\">Washington Post<\/a> reported on Saturday, citing \u201cthree people familiar with the effort\u201d, that the FBI director, Kash Patel, is pushing to release the files, even though there is no public evidence of wrongdoing on Swalwell\u2019s part. The records stem from a decade-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2020\/12\/08\/china-spy-california-politicians\">investigation<\/a> into a suspected spy who had developed relationships with US politicians and assisted Swalwell with fundraising.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/30\/eric-swalwell-fbi-kash-patel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California governor contender not accused of wrongdoing in decade-old inquiry into suspected Chinese agent The Trump administration has reportedly been pushing to release records from an FBI investigation related to Eric Swalwell and alleged links to a Chinese agent as the Democratic congressman makes gains in the California governor\u2019s race. The Washington Post reported on &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats decry \u2018smear\u2019 as Trump FBI pushes for release of Eric Swalwell file\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/democrats-decry-smear-as-trump-fbi-pushes-for-release-of-eric-swalwell-file\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats decry \u2018smear\u2019 as Trump FBI pushes for release of Eric Swalwell file\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}