Five women just accused Eric Swalwell of sexual assault and rape.
Pelosi knew he was a problem six years ago.
Jesse Watters asked Josh Hawley why she kept him anyway – and the answer explains how every Democrat in Washington stays in line.
Pelosi Knew About Fang Fang in 2020 and Kept Swalwell on the Intel Committee Anyway
The FBI walked into Nancy Pelosi's office in 2020 and briefed her personally: Eric Swalwell, sitting member of the House Intelligence Committee, had been sexually targeted by Fang Fang – a Chinese Communist operative dispatched by Beijing's Ministry of State Security.
Pelosi's response was not to remove him.
It was to keep the file.
"She knew that he was a liability," Senator Josh Hawley told Watters on Jesse Watters Primetime. "She could use it as leverage until it blew up in her face."
Swalwell first got the FBI's defensive briefing back in 2015, when agents warned him directly that Fang Fang was a Chinese spy – and that he'd been her target.
Fang Fang fled the country.
Pelosi kept Swalwell on the Intelligence Committee anyway – and after the 2020 briefing, when Axios broke the story publicly and the FBI briefed congressional leadership again, she stood in front of cameras and said: "I don't have any concern about Mr. Swalwell."
Now five women have accused him of sexual assault or rape.
The Manhattan DA has opened a criminal investigation.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff is talking to accusers.
Swalwell resigned from Congress Tuesday.
"And by the way," Hawley said, "Fang Fang probably got a medal of commendation. That's like the worst espionage assignment in the history of the world."
How the Democrat Blackmail File System Works According to Josh Hawley and Stephen Miller
The night before Hawley went on air, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said what Washington has always known but never admitted out loud.
"The real story here is how the Democrat Party controls its members through blackmail," Miller told Watters.
"It's got a blackmail file on all of its politicians, and it uses them to leverage and control them until it's time to release it."
That's not a theory.
That's exactly what Hawley described happening with Swalwell – in real time, with a named operative, a named spy, and a named House Speaker who sat on the information for years.
Watters pushed the question further Tuesday night.
"Let's say AOC," he said. "We assume Nancy or Hakeem Jeffries has something on AOC. What do you think that is? And do you think they use it?"
Hawley didn't hesitate.
"Oh, I think they absolutely use it if they've got it."
He explained how the file gets built.
"The way that you get it is you just monitor these people. Just like they did with Swalwell. And you use it for leverage."
That's why AOC endorsed Biden after two years of calling him a corporate sellout.
And the Squad talks revolution in public and delivers nothing in Washington.
That's why far-left Democrats who promise to burn the system down become reliable party-line votes the moment something real is on the table.
Someone always has the file.
Hawley connected the final dot.
"Who got Joe Biden out of the presidential race? Not Joe Biden. It was Nancy Pelosi once again."
A sitting president – the commander in chief, the leader of the free world – got pushed out of his own reelection campaign by a woman who held no official leadership title.
"She has got more dirt on every member of her party than anybody else, any intelligence agency could ever hope to," Hawley said. "For my money, I say she's still in control over there."
John Conyers Paid Harassment Victims With Taxpayer Money in 2017 and Pelosi Managed His Exit Too
Hawley announced he's introducing legislation to strip pensions from any member of Congress convicted of a sex offense.
He had to introduce it because it doesn't already exist.
"Right now, you could be convicted and still get your pension," Hawley said.
American taxpayers are currently on the hook for lifetime pension payments to members of Congress convicted of sex crimes – because Congress wrote the laws and made sure those laws didn't apply to themselves.
Watters called it immediately: "That's got to be a voice vote. That's got to be unanimous, Senator."
It should be.
But if it isn't unanimous – if there are members who vote to protect those pensions – you'll know exactly who's nervous about their own exposure.
Pelosi probably already has a spreadsheet.
The legislation is long overdue – and Pelosi's own record proves why it never got passed.
In 2017, John Conyers – the longest-serving member of Congress, a Democrat, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus – resigned after settling a sexual harassment complaint using $27,000 in taxpayer money from his own congressional office budget.
Pelosi didn't expose him.
She managed him out.
A senior Democratic aide told NPR at the time that Pelosi spent days before the story exploded working with Conyers and Congressional Black Caucus members on how to "lay groundwork for him to step aside gracefully."
Protect the liability. Control the exit. Keep the file.
That's not a coincidence between Conyers and Swalwell.
That's a decades-long management strategy – and it ran until five women went public before Pelosi could get ahead of the story.
Congress responded to the Conyers scandal by passing the Congressional Accountability Act reforms in 2018 and congratulating themselves.
They did not strip pensions from members convicted of sex offenses.
Hawley is doing that now.
"The only thing the government ought to be paying for for people like Eric Swalwell is a jail cell," he said.
Josh Hawley went on Jesse Watters and told millions of people exactly how the machine works.
Now Pelosi can't put it back in the box.
Sources:
- Josh Hawley, Jesse Watters Primetime, Fox News, April 15, 2026.
- Stephen Miller, Jesse Watters Primetime, Fox News, April 14, 2026, via American Greatness.
- "Swalwell Scandal Reveals How the Democrat Party Controls Its Members Through Blackmail," Western Journal, April 15, 2026.
- "Swalwell, Gonzales Announce Resignations in Wake of Allegations," Fox News, April 14, 2026.
- Jonathan Swan, "Exclusive: How a Suspected Chinese Spy Gained Access to California Politics," Axios, December 8, 2020.
- Sharyl Attkisson, "Chinese Spies: Timeline and Takeaways," SharlAttkisson.com, December 19, 2020.
- Scott Detrow, "Conyers Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations," NPR, December 5, 2017.
- Margaret Hartmann, "John Conyers Settled Sexual-Harassment Complaint Using Taxpayer Money," New York Magazine, November 21, 2017.