A congressman from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, became the butt of everyone’s joke for appearing to fart on live television Monday night.
Rep. Eric Swalwell was mid-sentence on MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris
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... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom... " when it sounded like he let ’er rip.
"Chris, so far the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to help him cheat ‐" Swalwell says with a pause, as the noise is clearly heard, "‐ an election."
But the 39-year-old Democrat, who’s been in Congress since 2013 and sits on the House Judiciary Committee, was quick to deny the apparent tummy troubles.