FBI Surprises Eric Swalwell At Airport, Seizes Key Evidence

FBI agents surprised disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) when he arrived at the San Francisco airport on Saturday, slapping him with a search warrant. Sources familiar with the law enforcement action confirmed to The Daily Wire that Swalwell's phone and other electronic devices were seized by agents at the airport. Federal law enforcement officials also served and executed search warrants on Swalwell's residence in Washington, D.C., where additional electronic devices were seized. Several sources confirmed that the seizure was related to an ongoing criminal probe into the 45-year-old former California lawmaker stemming from a number of accusations of sexual misconduct and even rape. The FBI seizure report comes just days after newly declassified documents shed light on Swalwell's repeated dalliances with Chinese spy Christine Fang ("Fang Fang"). He has not responded to the new document dump. Swalwell, according to the reports first published by The Daily Mail, cooperated with federal agents when they greeted him at the airport on Saturday, and neither he nor his wife or children were present at the D.C. residence when agents entered the premises. The former gubernatorial candidate faced a slew of accusations from several women who accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior -- and one former staffer who claimed that he raped her twice when she was too inebriated to have given her consent -- and ultimately dropped out of the race in California before the primary election. He resigned from Congress days later. Swalwell has maintained his innocence throughout, consistently claiming that the accusations against him were politically motivated. Before the women went public, he was leading the field in the gubernatorial primary -- but because California uses a "jungle primary" system that advances only the top two candidates overall, Swalwell claimed he was targeted in order to keep him from splintering the Democratic vote. His exit, he maintained, was strategically designed to prevent a general election matchup that locked out the Democratic Party entirely. The Department of Justice opened an official investigation into Swalwell in April, and he's stayed relatively quiet in the weeks since.