{"id":241673,"date":"2025-04-15T20:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejerseypress.com\/?p=241673"},"modified":"2025-04-15T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:29:00","slug":"compromised-and-dangerous-swalwell-ciattarelli-are-unfit-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejerseypress.com\/?p=241673","title":{"rendered":"Compromised and Dangerous: Swalwell &amp; Ciattarelli Are Unfit to Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jackson, NJ \u2014 A bombshell report by Nick Sortor has hit X exposing Congressman Eric Swalwell\u2014again\u2014for reckless behavior that makes him a security risk. His past ties to a Chinese spy, Fang Fang,&nbsp; should have ended his career, yet he remains in power, compromised and vulnerable. Most notably, the beleaguered congressman hurled lies at President Trump during his first term Ukraine-call impeachment. Now that we have seen how China benefited during the Biden administration, perhaps his dishonest statements were somehow connected to the \u201choney pot\u201d operation that China was conducting to control him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the videos released last night, he can been seen seemingly drunk, circled by lobbyists, touting his desire to divulge intelligence to fulfill his part in a bargain to assist him to cheat on his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Swalwell isn\u2019t alone. Here in New Jersey, failed governor candidate, Jack Ciattarelli, having admitted to multiple extramarital affairs, raises <strong>similar red flags. <\/strong>A man who can\u2019t be trusted to be honest, can\u2019t be trusted with power. For years, rumors have swirled that Ciattarelli is making backroom deals and enabling establishment corruption. But now, a darker question emerges\u2014was it greed and power-lust, or has he been compromised? Commenting on the story, one pundit wrote, \u201c<strong><em>When a politician is that reckless, blackmail isn\u2019t just a possibility\u2014it\u2019s likely.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A direct threat to voters:<\/strong> It\u2019s not about an ended marriage. Sadly, marriages end all the time. It\u2019s the lies and deception. Politicians keeping naughty secrets are vulnerable and hence dangerous. If they fear being exposed, they\u2019ll betray the public. New Jersey and America deserve leaders with integrity, not men who can be bought or manipulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voters beware: a compromised leader serves his own interests\u2014not yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson, NJ \u2014 A bombshell report by Nick Sortor has hit X exposing Congressman Eric Swalwell\u2014again\u2014for reckless behavior that makes him a security risk. His past ties to a Chinese spy, Fang Fang,&nbsp; should have ended his career, yet he remains in power, compromised and vulnerable. Most notably, the beleaguered congressman hurled lies at President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,27],"tags":[18,33,19,17,16,34],"class_list":["post-241673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-national","category-opinion","tag-2025-nj-primary","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-jack-ciattarelli","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-security-risk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Compromised and Dangerous: Swalwell &amp; Ciattarelli Are Unfit to Lead - The Jersey Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thejerseypress.com\/?p=241673\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Compromised and Dangerous: Swalwell &amp; Ciattarelli Are Unfit to Lead - The Jersey Press\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jackson, NJ \u2014 A bombshell report by Nick Sortor has hit X exposing Congressman Eric Swalwell\u2014again\u2014for reckless behavior that makes him a security risk. 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