Eric Swalwell Quotes

Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

People knew Trump had strange relationships with the Russians even before he was elected. Consequently, there is every reason to investigate whether Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

This whole idea that the Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus.

Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

The fact that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid intelligence officials in Russia for salacious and false information on President Trump is suspicious enough.

We need to get answers to who in the Trump campaign was talking to the Russians throughout that campaign effort and what Donald Trump knew about any conversations that happened.

Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?

Donald Trump, for years, had been working with the Russians. He brought people on his campaign who had ties to the Russians.

Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

There will be more [political] scandals. There is too much money around …. It is legal for an American subsidiary corporation owned by the Chinese Army to make a major contribution to an American political party.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

I think you see a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.

It is illegal for foreign entities to buy political ads in the United States. But that didn't stop the purchase of thousands of political ads on Facebook, paid for - in rubles - by foreigners.

Despite the left's best hopes, the Manafort indictment didn't contain a single reference to the Trump campaign and the charges he faces are completely tailored to a decade of shady business deals overseas. Collusion wasn't the center of the charges and President Donald Trump was left out of it.

This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do what they want. This is how someone like Donald Trump could be turned into a Russian asset.

The Democrats have no evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 president election.

In Russia, you have political parties engaged in all kinds of nefarious activity. And they may just assume that in America it works the exact same way.

It does not take a lawyer or even a former federal prosecutor like myself to conclude that investigating Donald Trump's finances or his family's finances falls completely outside of the realm of his 2016 campaign and allegations that the campaign coordinated with the Russian government or anyone else.

President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit.

The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign.

I think there was certainly contact between the Trump campaign and Russians, which is perfectly normal. All campaigns in the modern age have contact with representatives of foreign governments.

The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.