{"id":96263,"date":"2020-02-22T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=96263"},"modified":"2020-02-22T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T20:29:57","slug":"eric-swalwell-suggests-russian-support-for-bernie-sanders-may-implicate-trump-as-an-agent-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96263","title":{"rendered":"Eric Swalwell Suggests Russian Support For Bernie Sanders May Implicate Trump As \u2018An Agent Of Russia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96264 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/airwick-swallowswell-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/airwick-swallowswell-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/airwick-swallowswell.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nCalifornia Rep. Eric Swalwell<\/p>\n<p>Quite possibly the dumbest Representative in the House, Eric &#8220;Nuke &#8216;Em&#8221; Swalwell has managed to outdo himself. The first Presidential candidate to drop out of the 2020 race- he was running on a single plank, gun control, which resonated with dozens of Democrat voters. As he left, tail between his legs, he said he&#8217;d go back to Congress, &#8220;&#8230;serving my friends and neighbors in California&#8217;s 15th District while using my seats on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees to make our nation safer and uphold the rule of law for all Americans.&#8221;<br \/>\nThanks for all that, Eric.<\/p>\n<p>Our own Mason sends us the article, which by the title conflates Russian support for Bernie The Socialist with Trump being a Russian spy. Truly a stunning leap of logic. Read on:<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Krayden<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell said Friday that reported Russian support of Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders raises the question of whether President Donald Trump is \u201can agent of Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t hold it against Bernie Sanders that this may be a preference of Russia, but you can hold it and ask questions of Donald Trump if he again is working as an agent of Russia by seeking not only one, to tweet at Bernie Sanders and try to amplify his campaign to get him to be a general election opponent but two, if he is indeed firing people on his staff who are telling others about Russia\u2019s preferences,\u201d Swalwell told CNN Friday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials reportedly told the Democratic presidential candidate that Russia is conspiring to assist Sanders with the nomination and to affect the ultimate 2020 presidential election. Exactly how the Russian influence is happening has not been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The national security officials also briefed President Donald Trump, senators and congressional representatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Swalwell told CNN Friday that he couldn\u2019t discuss the briefing, but said, \u201cI did ask [FBI] Director [Christopher] Wray at a judiciary hearing if Russia was still interfering and he plainly said yes.\u201d The congressman gives \u201ccredit to Bernie Sanders for disavowing what [Russia] was doing \u2026 and saying to Putin \u2018I\u2019m not going to put up with it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell insisted, \u201cThe real question, though, is did Donald Trump know that Russia had a preference for Bernie Sanders? Donald Trump has for the past few months has constantly and not so subtly been tweeting that his preferred candidate is Bernie Sanders. Is he taking intelligence that he\u2019s getting and feeding it back to be aligned with Russia so he gets the candidate he wants in the general [election]?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That it, dammit! Trump tweets, and fires staff who don&#8217;t meet expectations or flat oppose his policy. This is clearly suspicious behavior. Then Trump states of the bunch he&#8217;d prefer to face Bernie The Socialist, sending messages to the Russians to support Bernie&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Or something. Please seek professional help and don&#8217;t think so hard, Eric. It doesn&#8217;t suit you at all.   <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Mason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Rep. Eric Swalwell Quite possibly the dumbest Representative in the House, Eric &#8220;Nuke &#8216;Em&#8221; Swalwell &hellip; <a title=\"Eric Swalwell Suggests Russian Support For Bernie Sanders May Implicate Trump As \u2018An Agent Of Russia\u2019\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=96263\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eric Swalwell Suggests Russian Support For Bernie Sanders May Implicate Trump As \u2018An Agent Of Russia\u2019<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,430,406,5,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-2020-election","category-guest-link","category-politics","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96265,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96263\/revisions\/96265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}