Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) challenged Fox Information’s Greg Gutfeld to a bench press contest on Wednesday after Gutfeld mocked him on his present the prior night time.
“Right here’s a deal for @Gutfeldfox. (By no means heard of him til he spent 8 minutes criticizing what I bench press),” Swalwell stated in a post on the social platform X, highlighted by Mediaite.
*The deal: if powerful man benches greater than me for 10 reps I’ll go away Congress. If not, he leaves Fox Information. I’ll give Greg 48 hrs to just accept, then I’m calling him GUTLESSfeld,” he added.
On Gutfeld’s present the prior night time, additionally highlighted by Mediaite, he performed movies that Swalwell had posted of himself online doing athletic activities equivalent to swimming, tossing a baseball and lifting. Throughout the videos, Swalwell stated that he “must be working proper now.”
“I must be working proper now. I must be on the Capitol. I must be in a go well with. As an alternative, Republicans despatched us house as a result of they’d reasonably get up for Donald Trump than launch the Epstein information and get up for victims,” Swalwell said in one video he posted to X on Sunday.
“We may very well be in Washington, D.C., decreasing your well being care prices, decreasing your grocery prices, and restoring your rights. I must be working proper now. As an alternative, I am pumping iron on the health club,” he added.
Gutfeld, whereas replying to the video of Swalwell lifting, stated “With a bench press like that, nobody will thoughts in the event you use the ladies’s locker room.”
The Hill has reached out to Fox Information Media, the White Home and the Home Republican Convention for remark.