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The Swalwell FBI Investigation and Fang Fang: Jim Pfaff on Lindell TV | Aug 21, 2026

Published: August 21, 2026
Network: Lindell TV
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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Federal agents seized former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell’s cell phone and other electronic devices, serving a search warrant at San Francisco International Airport and at his Washington, D.C. home. On the August 21, 2026 edition of Lindell TV’s My Mornings, host Vanessa Broussard brought that breaking news to Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff, and his answer on the Swalwell FBI investigation went past Swalwell himself: charges of treason belong on the table for the House Intelligence Committee members he ties to the Russiagate hoax, the warrants are a positive sign that the Justice Department is taking action, and Fang Fang is the tip of the iceberg of Chinese activity inside the United States. In the second half, the conversation turned to the Lindsay Clancy murder trial and the women rallying outside the courthouse, which Pfaff used to describe what he calls the “Democrat death cult” and the two things he says are driving America’s mental health crisis.

Topics Covered

• The Swalwell FBI Investigation and Charges of Treason
• Warrants, Handcuffs, and Who Gets Held Accountable
• Fang Fang and the Deep Well of Chinese Activity
• The Clancy Trial and What Pfaff Calls the Democrat Death Cult
• The Family, the Fear of God, and a Moral People
• Key Takeaways

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The Swalwell FBI Investigation and Charges of Treason

Broussard laid out the sequence for viewers: Swalwell was forced to resign after sexual allegations, declassified documents showed a relationship with reported Chinese spy Fang Fang, and now there is a criminal investigation by the FBI. Pfaff called it one of those instances where what goes around finally comes around — and said the case should not stop at one member of Congress.

“I actually think that you need to look at charges of treason with characters like him, like Alexander Vindman, who just lost his primary in Florida, and Adam Schiff.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The common thread, in Pfaff’s telling, is the committee. Swalwell, Vindman, and Schiff were all connected to the House Intelligence Committee, and all were, in his estimation, committing treason by attempting to take out an American president — not through the political process, which would have been appropriate, but by using the government, government assets and resources, and willing participants. We covered Alexander Vindman’s primary defeat in Florida earlier this month; Pfaff’s point on Lindell TV was that losing a primary is not the same as being held to account.

What changed the picture, he said, is the Fang Fang disclosure landing on top of the Russiagate record. After knowing they had done all of that, you find out that Swalwell himself was infiltrated by a Chinese spy — and the misconduct is far worse than he ever represented. That is why Pfaff called the FBI action absolutely appropriate rather than political retaliation.

“Of course, Democrats are going to go apoplectic over this because they’re going to say that this is merely taking on your political opponents, and it’s not at all.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Warrants, Handcuffs, and Who Gets Held Accountable

Broussard pressed the question her audience keeps asking: the declassified documents are out, the allegations are public, the FBI is investigating — but will anything actually be done? The American people wanted arrests on day one, she said, and they want to see someone in handcuffs.

“And I feel, as much as I support the Trump administration 110%, and the FBI, will they do anything? So, you know, will charges be filed? Because the American people want to see arrests.”
— Vanessa Broussard, Host, Lindell TV

Pfaff agreed it is always the question to ask, and said there are a lot of people who need to go in handcuffs — but not Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon, who in his view had done nothing illegal at all and were political actors advancing a political agenda. Then he offered the reason he says people should take hope from this particular case.

“You do not get this far unless you have warrants issued by a court and/or grand jury to do so.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

That matters because of the pattern on the other side of the docket. There have been many, many cases where judges throw out this or that thing Donald Trump attempts to do, the large majority of it not illegal and entirely within his scope of power. So when a process this politically charged produces warrants against a Democrat operative like Swalwell, and when courts let the James Comey matter get as far as it has, Pfaff reads that as positive progress rather than as noise.

Accountability, he added, runs in both directions. Todd Blanche should be held to the fire the same way Pam Bondi was, and Pfaff was blunt that he considered her tenure a failure. He named Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel together: keep moving in this direction, aggressively, because the American people need it and want it. Our earlier analysis of Todd Blanche’s confirmation fight and the lawfare record tracks the same standard Pfaff applied here.

Fang Fang and the Deep Well of Chinese Activity

Pfaff said the Swalwell story is important, but something much bigger is going on behind it. He pointed to John Solomon’s reporting at Just the News on far more extensive Chinese meddling in the 2020 elections, and said he believes Swalwell and Adam Schiff are part of that effort. His supporting example was General Milley calling his counterpart in China to say the United States would take care of the Trump situation — conduct Pfaff called treasonous on its face.

“There is a deep well of Chinese activity that Fang Fang and her cohorts, and probably many others, many of whom are probably still here in the United States, have been undertaking to overthrow the United States.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The reason China can operate that way, he argued, is time. China always has a very long plan, thinks far into the future, and does not act rashly in the early stages of an effort to take down an enemy — a very different strategy from the Western instinct to throw the military at a problem and get it over with. Part of what makes that patience possible is a long national history of espionage.

“Fang Fang is the tip of the tip of the iceberg, maybe the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg, to what China is doing in this country.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Pfaff also raised money moving in the other direction, citing Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham as putting tens of millions of dollars into the violent protests seen around the country. His conclusion on the relationship was flat: they may trade with us, and that trade may look somewhat peaceful, but there is nothing peaceful about their posture toward the United States, and this is an enemy intent on destroying us.

The Clancy Trial and What Pfaff Calls the Democrat Death Cult

The second story of the morning was the Lindsay Clancy trial. Clancy is accused of killing her three children and then attempting suicide, and hundreds of women in pink shirts have shown up at the courthouse in support of her. Broussard said the system failed Clancy, who had postpartum depression and cried out for help — but that the victims here are the children, and asked where the rallies for them are.

“Where are the supporters for the kids, Jim?”
— Vanessa Broussard, Host, Lindell TV

Pfaff said he had not been closely following the trial over the many weeks it has run; what brought it to the fore for him were the protests, which he called obscene. He also drew a distinction with Broussard on the phrase “the system failed her.” Seeking help is a good thing, he said, but the system did not serve Clancy because the system has no bearing in reality: the whole psychological project leaves out sin, repentance, and the responsibility to take care of one’s own life, and offers far more sympathy and empathy than hard discussion of what is actually going wrong. On the reporting that Clancy felt she needed to be restrained from her children, his answer was that someone should have taken action — that the real failure was not placing her in an institution where the problem could be dealt with long term, since the country has largely moved away from institutionalization.

Then he named what the pink shirts signal to him. The shirts are the giveaway, he said, because they mark a politics he has stopped softening the name for — the Democrat death cult.

“The Democrat Party has developed a death cult in this country.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The lineage he traced runs through abortion politics. Pfaff recalled a clip from Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings — he placed it around 1984, a little over ten years after Roe v. Wade — with Ted Kennedy pressing Scalia to commit that he would not overturn the decision. From there, he said, Democrats used the abortion issue to build a politics that transfers money to political people and encourages women to end their pregnancies, with emotional harm he doubts any woman escapes entirely. And in his argument the Democrat death cult does not stop at abortion: it extends to destruction of life by taxation, to controlling people through government, and to undermining the constitutional framework that secures freedom in the first place.

On Clancy herself, Pfaff kept both halves. He said he feels horrible for what she went through in a postpartum way and does not know how much of it she could control, and in the next breath refused the excuse.

“I don’t care how depressed you are, it is always murder to kill your children.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

As tragic as her situation is, he said, more tragic still is the Democrat death cult that continues to promote the destruction of life and has sympathy for the person who committed the murders rather than for the children who were killed. That attitude, in his words, is not healthy for any culture — and the fact that it exists at all is the serious problem.

The Family, the Fear of God, and a Moral People

Asked what the rallies say about mental illness in America, Pfaff gave two causes he said professionals and psychologists will push back on. The first is the destruction of the nuclear family. The social science is settled in his reading: a married mother and father consistently in the home provides the best outcome for children, excepting cases of rape, incest, or abuse — and the country has spent two, maybe three generations dismantling that arrangement. Clancy, he noted, came up through the generation that absorbed the most harm to the family.

The second cause he called the more important one, and it is the same root he assigns to the Democrat death cult.

“There is no fear of God in our culture. We used to honor God in our culture.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Fear of God, he explained, is not about expecting a thunderbolt. It is the understanding that 6,000 years of recorded human history proves the moral depravity of man — and that understanding is what tells you how to build institutions. It is what animated the Founding Fathers to write the Constitution with all its severe limitations on government. Pfaff quoted John Adams, writing to a Massachusetts audience after ratification, that the Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

He extended the point past the believers. George Washington and others made open proclamations of faith, but Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine did not profess that kind of individual walk with God and still said plainly how necessary the moral order laid out in the Bible is for society. Paine, an atheist, said the moral teaching of Christ and of Moses was necessary and useful — an opinion Pfaff called striking given his atheism, and evidence that even the founders outside the faith knew what was at stake. Pfaff also pointed to the removal of prayer from public schools, which he placed around 1960 and attributed to the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Madalyn Murray O’Hair brought, as doing more harm to the culture than most anything before or since.

His closing was a request rather than a prediction: that Christians in particular, and people of goodwill throughout the country, would recognize our accountability to God and inject it into governance and culture. Without that security, he said, everything unravels — and the Democrat death cult continues on for years to come.

Key Takeaways

1. Treason charges, not just an FBI probe – Pfaff said charges of treason should be examined for Eric Swalwell, Alexander Vindman, and Adam Schiff, all connected to the House Intelligence Committee, for attempting to remove a president using government assets instead of the political process.
2. The warrants are the evidence – You do not get this far without warrants issued by a court and/or a grand jury. Given how often judges have thrown out lawful Trump actions, courts allowing the Swalwell and James Comey processes to proceed is positive progress.
3. Accountability runs both ways – Pfaff wants Todd Blanche and Kash Patel held to the fire the way Pam Bondi was, and says they have to keep moving aggressively in this direction because the American people need it and want it. Broussard’s question was whether charges will actually be filed, because the American people want to see arrests.
4. Fang Fang is the tip of the iceberg – Pfaff cited John Solomon’s reporting on Chinese meddling in 2020 and General Milley’s call to his Chinese counterpart, and described a deep well of Chinese activity, including money from Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham flowing into violent protests.
5. Pfaff traces the “Democrat death cult” to abortion politics – From Ted Kennedy pressing Antonin Scalia on Roe v. Wade to crowds in pink shirts backing a mother on trial for killing her three children, Pfaff traced a politics that has sympathy for the killer and none for the children.
6. Two causes of the mental health crisis – The destroyed nuclear family, since a married mother and father in the home produces the best outcomes for children, and the absent fear of God in a country whose Constitution, as John Adams wrote, was made for a moral and religious people.

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About The Conservative Caucus:
The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Aug 21, 2026 on Lindell TV’s My Mornings with Vanessa Broussard.