Eric Swalwell
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It's just absurd.
It's absolutely absurd.
But as my lawyer, one of our lawyers told me today, and this really kind of stops you right in your tracks.
He said, if they do this, it'll be the greatest abuse of power by an FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover.
And so those are the stakes that we would allow the FBI to just go after the president's political enemies at a time that we see the president equally trying to get rid of mail-in voting, preventing women from being able to vote.
We can lose these freedoms like that, Michael, and it's coming if enough of us, particularly those inside the building right now who are being asked to do this dirty work, if they don't step up.
And for those who are doing the dirty work,
You will be in front of congressional committees in no time.
And those that speak out, you will be protected.
I'm one of the plaintiffs on that lawsuit.
It's been going on for quite some time, and it's not a victory for me.
I'm going to continue to persist in seeking justice here.
It's a victory for the January 6th police officers who bravely defended the Capitol on January 6th and want justice for what the president did.
And just as we expected after the mortgage fraud nonsense that more would come against me in retaliation, we also expect more to come and that this is, in fact, motivating Kash Patel and others that I have brought this suit.
It's the only surviving lawsuit against the president in this new presidency.
But justice has been delivered.
What he did on January 6th was deemed by this judge as not an official act.
And Donald Trump is going to have to go to trial.
And he's going to have to face a jury for what he's done.
That's real justice.