WH Press Secretary Berates Press for Ignoring Eric Swalwell, Hunter Biden Scandals

By Staff, Agencies

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany rebuked the media on Tuesday for glossing over a spate of recent scandals linked with Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and the US President-elect’s son, Hunter Biden.

“In the last 24, 48 hours there have been quite a few stories that have not gotten a ton of coverage in the mainstream media, as former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said, ‘Bias is often found in the stories the press does not cover,'” said McEnany.

She proceeded to list examples, the most recent one involving California Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, who found himself at the heart of a spy scandal.

The story, broken by Axios in early December, was a report on a year-long probe revealing that the Democrat was being targeted by an alleged Chinese spy named Fang Fang, aka Christine Fang.

Fang, whose activities date to 2011-2015, purportedly sought to forge ties with local US politicians, including Swalwell, while he was a city council member in Dublin, California.

“We found out that Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell was infiltrated by an alleged Chinese spy, this spy cozied up to Swalwell, raised funds for his 2014 campaign and even planted an intern in his office and that relationship continued until the FBI briefed him in 2015, and that was some very good reporting done by Axios,” said the press secretary.

Kayleigh McEnany then reminded the press that Swalwell went on to become one of the lead instigators of the Russia-Trump ‘collusion hoax’, followed up by the ‘impeachment sham’.

McEnany called out The New York Times, which scooped up a Pulitzer Prize for pushing the collusion narrative between Donald Trump and the Kremlin, for not covering the Swalwell story.

“When the Swalwell story broke, guess how many minutes of coverage it got on ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CBS? Zero. CNN devoted three minutes and 16 seconds to it,” said McEnany.

The press secretary then similarly accused the mainstream media of downplaying the ongoing Hunter Biden scandal.

“… Which was not covered, at all, by many outlets in the lead up to the election. In fact, on 15 October you had a New York Times headline that said, ‘Trump said to be warned that he was being given Russian disinformation over Hunter Biden,’” said McEnany.

She then pointed to a blatant change in headlines from some outlets: “Now, 10 December, just a few months later, New York Times headline, ‘Investigation of Hunter Biden is likely to hang over Biden as he takes office.’”

According to the White House press secretary, The Washington Post and Politico had both opted to overlook the story connected with the-then Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son ahead of Election Day.

“Good for those who covered what was a story all along,” she said.