Fact-check: “Eric Swalwell had an inappropriate relationship with a Chinese spy while he was serving in Congress.”
Verdict: Partly True (62% confidence)
Newly declassified FBI files released August 17, 2026, document that Swalwell admitted to FBI agents he had 'physical relations' with Christine Fang on multiple occasions after meeting her in 2012, while he was a sitting congressman, and that Fang was suspected of ties to China's Ministry of State Security. However, the FBI ultimately dropped Swalwell as a subject of the probe in 2017 after finding no federal statutory violation by him, the House Ethics Committee in 2023 took no further action…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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