Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell Implies God Is Female: ‘God Herself’
Democratic lawmaker Rep. Eric Swalwell sparked a new online controversy over the weekend when he implied that God is a female.
The California representative was reacting to the recent acquittal of former president Donald Trump during the second impeachment trial in the Senate.
Swalwell first defended the Democrats’ decision not to subpoena witnesses related to the Democrat-led impeachment where the former Republican president was being charged for ‘inciting insurrection’ related to the January 6 chaos at Capitol Hill.
“The choice was, do we chase those people, not knowing what they’re going to say, to the courts for years or do we go forward with the powerful, thundering case that we have? And also knowing that Mitch McConnell was already telling us that he believed the challenge was a jurisdictional one,” the Democrat lawmaker told MSNBC in an interview with host Nicole Wallace on Saturday.
“So we could have called God herself, and the Republicans weren’t going to be willing to convict, so we’re proud of the case we have put forward,” he added.
.@NicolleDWallace: “I thought this was some of the most airtight evidence — they literally put the Constitution up, which is a Republican schtick" pic.twitter.com/BqblUy399z
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 13, 2021
.@RepSwalwell on impeachment failure: “We could have called God herself and it would not have” swayed McConnell pic.twitter.com/y3v7gw3geq
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 13, 2021
But Swalwell’s role as one of the House impeachment managers already stirred criticism after his ties with Chinese spy Christine Fang was earlier exposed.
“This afternoon we have been lectured to by Eric Swalwell, a guy accused of consorting with a Chinese spy. How appropriate!” Sen. Rand Paul wrote on Twitter.
This afternoon we have been lectured to by Eric Swalwell, a guy accused of consorting with a Chinese spy. How appropriate!
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) February 10, 2021
Meanwhile, Swalwell’s theological commentary comes as Democrats also got backlash last month for altering the traditional ending of a prayer in opening the 117th Congress where Rep. Emanuel Cleaver — from ‘amen’ to ‘amen and a-woman’ in a bid to put a gender to the Hebrew word.
A prayer opening the 117th Congress concluded, "Amen and a woman."
"Amen" translates to "so be it." pic.twitter.com/SIGBtgLk5v
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 4, 2021
As Congress swore in new lawmakers in January, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also pitched a major change in the rules of the House of Representatives by dropping all ‘gender-specific’ terms such as “father,” “mother,” “daughter,” and “son,” among others from all House bills and records.
Donald Trump Jr. earlier took to Twitter to slam Cleaver’s prayer reiterating that “amen” isn’t a gendered word.
The prayer to open the 117th congress ended with “amen and a-woman.”
Amen means “So Be It” in Latin.
It isn’t a gendered word but that didn’t stop them from being insane.
Is this what you voted for?
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 4, 2021
“Is this what you voted for?” the former first son tweeted.
