Marjorie Taylor Greene says Eric Swalwell slept with Chinese spy

WASHINGTON — Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plunged a House Homeland Security Committee hearing into chaos Wednesday by accusing Rep. Eric Swalwell of having a “sexual relationship with a Chinese spy” — leading Democrats to unsuccessfully demand that the remark be purged from the record.

Greene (R-Ga.) made the comment moments after Swalwell accused her of “anti-police rhetoric” and showed a print-out of a tweet she wrote promoting “Defund the FBI” merchandise in response to purported bureau bias.

“That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy — and everyone knows it,” Greene shot back, referring to Swalwell’s alleged romance with suspected Chinese agent Fang Fang.

“I move to take her words down,” exclaimed Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY).

“Completely inappropriate!”

Asked by committee chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) which words Goldman would like deleted from the record, the Lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn Democrat answered: “Everything that the gentlelady from Georgia has said.”

“No, you need to be more specific,” Green replied.

“The accusations of an affair with a Chinese spy. Those are engaging in personalities,” Goldman said.

After several minutes of study, Green declared, “The chair rules that those words that were spoken are not going to be stricken from the record.”

Democrats protested, with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) complaining: “I don’t think there’s any question about what the gentlelady has said … We have never had an accusation made of any member like that and I’m appalled by it. We all ought to be embarrassed by it.”

When Thompson appealed the decision, Republicans on the committee voted to table the motion, effectively denying it and keeping the accusation in the meeting’s official transcript.

Swalwell’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

It’s unclear if Swalwell has ever specifically denied having a sexual relationship with Fang, who reportedly returned to China in 2015 as US authorities became aware of her conduct.

Swalwell received a “defensive briefing” from the FBI that same year after Fang reportedly fundraised for his campaign and placed an intern in his office.

Most, if not all, of Swalwell’s GOP colleagues, including on the House Intelligence Committee, were unaware of his ties to Fang before a bombshell 2020 Axios report exposed her operation, in which she also allegedly seduced two Midwestern mayors.

House Republicans booted Swalwell from the intelligence committee this year, citing the relationship.

Greene delivered similar barbs to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — testifying before the committee — for not doing more to address record-high US drug overdose deaths caused by fentanyl smuggled from China.

“How many more people do we have to watch die … how long are you going to continue this outrage, complete outrage, where China is poisoning America’s children?” Greene asked Mayorkas.

“We are not letting it go on, we are fighting the scourge,” Mayorkas said.

“You are a liar, you are letting this go on and the numbers prove it,” Greene said.

Green did agree to strike Greene’s attack on Mayorkas from the record, which per House rules barred her from speaking any more during the hearing.

About 196,000 Americans died from fentanyl between 2018 and 2021 alone.

Complete figures are not yet available from 2022 but are estimated to remain near the record of roughly 71,000 US fentanyl deaths the previous year.