Former President Donald Trump unleashed on several of his rivals in a lengthy statement on Thursday, hours before his future daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle was subpoenaed by the Capitol riot committee
Donald Trump accused the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot of using ‘lies and Marxist tactics’ on Thursday after lawmakers said the former president committed ‘criminal conspiracy.’
Trump unleashed on several of his rivals in a lengthy statement where he also claimed Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell had a ‘steaming hot affair with a Chinese spy’ and called former Attorney General Bill Barr a ‘broken man.’
‘The actual conspiracy to defraud the United States was the Democrats rigging the Election, and the Fake News Media and the Unselect Committee covering it up. Few things could be more fraudulent, or met with more irregularities, than the Presidential Election of 2020,’ Trump said through his Save America PAC.
‘The evidence is monumental but the Unselect Committee of politically partisan hacks, and someone who had a steaming hot affair with a Chinese spy, hides the facts.’
That ‘someone’ is in reference to reports that Swalwell, not a member of the committee but one of Trump’s most vocal critics in Congress, was targeted by a Chinese spy during his early years in local elected office.
The California congressman was reportedly one of several politicians targeted by a Chinese national named Fang Fang, who helped Swalwell fundraise for his 2014 campaign. Axios first broke the story in 2020. Swalwell, who sits on the powerful House Intelligence Committee, cut all ties with Fang in 2015 after being alerted by federal investigators.
A spokesperson for Trump confirmed to DailyMail.com that he was referring to Swalwell.
He claimed the panel’s ‘sole goal is to try to prevent President Trump, who is leading by large margins in every poll, from running again for president, if I so choose’
In his Thursday statement, Trump alleged the January 6 committee’s real goal was not to investigate the Capitol riot but to stop him from running in 2024.
He blamed the insurrection on the fact that ‘millions of people in our Country know the Election was Rigged and Stolen’ and slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not beefing up security ahead of time.
Trump’s spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com that the person he claimed ‘had a steaming hot affair with a Chinese spy’ is California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell
‘The Unselect Committee’s sole goal is to try to prevent President Trump, who is leading by large margins in every poll, from running again for president, if I so choose,’ he said.
‘By so doing they are destroying democracy as we know it. Their lies and Marxist tactics against political opponents will not stop the truth, or the biggest political movement, Make America Great Again/America First, in the history of our Country.’
He also lashed out at his former Attorney General Bill Barr, who on Thursday told NBC News that Trump fired him on the spot when he said the ex-president’s 2020 election fraud claims were ‘bulls**t.’
While he ran the Justice Department, Trump said, Barr ‘was so petrified of being held in contempt or being impeached by the Democrats, which they were constantly threatening him with, that he was virtually a broken man who allowed for the systemic violation of election laws and other things to take place.’
A few hours later the committee subpoenaed former White House personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is engaged to his oldest son Donald Trump Jr.
Earlier on Thursday a former Trump communications aide was spotted walking to the O’Neill House Office Building, a hub of activity for the Capitol riot committee.
Lawmakers reportedly wanted to Trump deputy press secretary Judd Deere’s account of a January 5 Oval Office meeting, the day before the Capitol riot.
Deere had a hand in ‘formulating White House’s response to the January 6 attack as it occurred,’ a January 28 subpoena obtained by CNN read.
Judd Deere (right) a former Trump press deputy, was spotted walking toward the House O’Neill Office Building late on Thursday morning
On Wednesday evening the committee (pictured during a December 2021 hearing) claimed in a court filing that Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy
The committee said it was told Trump asked his staff at the meeting: ‘What are your ideas for getting the RINOs to do the right thing tomorrow? How do we convince Congress?’
The Democrat-led panel is closing in on the former president, as a Wednesday court filing indicates. It believes that former Trump violated ‘multiple laws’ in his attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election.
The court document was filed in federal court in Los Angeles as part of the committee’s dispute with John Eastman, a lawyer who advised Trump on a plan to invalidate election results in key battleground states.
Eastman is behind the notorious ‘coup memo,’ which argued that former Vice President Mike Pence had unilateral power to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden.
The former law professor has sued the committee in a bid to block thousands of documents from being released.
The Democrat-led bipartisan panel is investigating the former president’s role in the January 6 insurrection last year
The committee argues that Eastman must testify because they believe he and others, including Trump, ‘may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts’ in their attempts to overturn the election.’
It claimed in the Wednesday filing that they have enough evidence to show ‘a good-faith basis for concluding that President Trump has violated section 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2),’ or the obstruction of an official act of Congress.
The panel believes that Trump and his associates did this and did so with the intent to break the law.
The House Committee added that it has ‘a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.’
Eastman, who is currently being investigated by the California State Bar Association, cited attorney-client privilege to avoid giving testimony.
