 Swalwell stated that in 1797, President John Adams' agents, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry, and John Marshall, were asked by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's agents Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval to "do a favor" (pay a bribe) before they could meet Talleyrand.Swalwell noted the similarity to Trump's demand of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do a favor.Swalwell and his first wife are divorced.