Gowdy blasts Pelosi as Swalwell stays on House Intel: She can't find a single Dem who didn't date Chinese spy?
'All you've got to say is "I didn't sleep with her", Eric,' Gowdy tells 'The Story'
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Former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy expressed incredulity Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has kept Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on the House Intelligence Committee despite his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.
"There are 230 [House] Democrats, and you mean to tell me she cannot find a single one that didn't date a Chinese spy?" Gowdy, now a Fox News contributor, told host Martha MacCallum.
Gowdy added that he and other Republicans are particularly "frustrated" by Pelosi's handling of the matter because "we listened to him for years.
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"He berated Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for meeting with a Russian lawyer -- not dating one, meeting with one," he recounted. "And then he berates Devin Nunes for a phone call with Lev Parnas, and he calls the president an agent of Russia.
"Meanwhile, for four years, the guy is not smart enough to know he's being played by a Chinese spy?" he asked again. "That's the best Nancy Pelosi could do? At 230 members, the best you can come up with is a former city councilman in California who's not smart enough to know when a woman is expressing interest in you, [whether] she's a spy?"
When asked about Swalwell's claim that he had not done anything wrong, Gowdy expressed skepticism.
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"Unfortunately I know him. This is the same guy that ran for president so he's not known for his self-awareness," Gowdy said. "I need to hear from the FBI and the director of national intelligence. What did you all have? I mean, you went to a sitting member of Congress [and] said, 'Look, you probably should not be having any new faces in your life.' What did they tell him?
"And I don't think Swalwell has denied having a relationship with her [suspected spy Fang Fang]. He said it was classified. I'll be damned if I know what that means: All you've got to say is 'I didn't sleep with her', Eric. That's all you got to say."