As if having a romantic escapade with a Chinese spy wasn’t embarrassing enough, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., flushed what little dignity he had left down the toilet on Tuesday by throwing a tantrum over a meme of Donald Trump holding a duck and kitten.
The incident occurred during a House Judiciary Committee hearing highlighting the devasting consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies. When given the chance to speak, Swalwell began his remarks by lashing out at Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, over an AI-generated meme posted by the Judiciary GOP’s X account showing Trump cuddling a duck and kitten.
“What in the hell is this?” Swalwell yelled, pointing at a display showcasing the meme to the audience. “The chairman tweets, ‘Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!’ because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole, completely debunked, that aliens are eating pets? My God! Are you okay, Mr. Chairman?”
The meme appears to reference allegations from a man in Springfield, Ohio, who claimed during a recent public meeting that Haitian nationals in the local park are “grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with ’em and eating ’em.” An Ohio woman was charged last month for allegedly killing and eating a cat, although there’s no indication she’s a Haitian national, according to the New York Post.
A Haitian national was, however, detained by police in Springfield last year after he drove into a school bus, killing an 11-year-old and injuring
