Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial bid amid allegations of sexual misconduct from four women, including a former staffer claiming forced intoxication. Host Tim Pool argues the Democratic machine orchestrated this scandal to eliminate Swalwell's frontrunner status and prevent a Republican sweep, noting prediction markets now favor Tom Steyer. While Swalwell denies the claims and faces staff resignations, Pool suggests these accusations mirror political leverage tactics akin to Epstein conspiracies, implying the timing reveals calculated betrayal rather than genuine criminal behavior. [Automatically generated summary]
Eric Swalwell, he's a Democrat, member of the House, has just been accused of serious impropriety, forcing himself on a staffer more than one time, and a video has emerged showing him with an alleged lady of the night.
Now, this is massive in that it's not just a scandal about Eric Swalwell cheating on his wife and forcing himself on women, but there is a much bigger play here.
You see, this guy has just suspended his bid for California governor.
Swalwell was the Democrat frontrunner.
And up until this point, he was the last hope for stopping a Republican sweep.
Now, I will just say this before we get into all the details.
I believe the Democrats are the ones who knifed Swalwell in the back, terrified that Republicans might actually take back California.
Indeed.
Well, I can only say to Eric Swalwell, live by the sword, brother.
But as the story goes, it's like this.
In California, in order to win the governor's race, you have an open primary first.
The top two candidates will then go to a runoff.
The only problem for California is they only had like two Republicans.
So if you're a Republican, it's going to be one of these two guys.
If you're a Democrat, you had a massive field to choose from.
And because none of these Democrats were willing to drop out, they all wanted to be governor, it split the Democrat vote.
That meant that the Republicans were in the top two spots.
So if this trend continued come November, The winners of the primary are going to be Republicans, and the only option California would have for governor is going to be Republican A, Republican B.
Well, Swalwell wouldn't drop out.
No one would.
Then this scandal erupts.
And now he's been forced to suspend his campaign, with some predicting he might even resign from Congress.
This is massive.
Now, there are many, many more functions to this scandal.
Some speculate that the reason he's on video with some ladies of the night, allegedly, is that it's a prerequisite for being in the club of dirty political evil.
That's a little bit too far for me.
I think the dude just might be, you know.
I mean, having an affair with his wife.
But I do think it's fair to say that the Democratic machine intentionally leaked these information and this information, allegations, and videos because they needed to force a Democrat out of the race.
Strangely, he was the front runner.
But now, prediction markets say Tom Steyer is going to step in to second place.
And this means the runoff will be Democrat and Republican.
Democrats likely going to win.
But let's go through what's going on.
We've got some video to show you.
None of it is too.
I mean, it's a video of him with a lady on a bed.
They're not doing anything egregious.
But I'm going to break down for you these allegations, and I can't believe I'm saying this.
I'm going to have to at least a little bit defend Eric Swalwell.
Obviously, it's apparent he was cheating on his wife.
I mean, assuming these videos are true, not a good guy, not an honorable guy, live by the sword, as I say.
But again, this leak and these claims, I do think, when you read them, I'm sorry, I'm.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were false allegations for political purposes.
But hear me out.
I know a lot of Republicans immediately want to just say, no, no, Swalwell's a bad guy.
Get him out of Congress.
Yes.
But if Swalwell stayed in the race, the Republicans would have won.
So this whole thing is absolutely insane.
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We've got this from NPR.
Of course, the first component of the story Eric Swalwell has suspended his bid for California governor.
They say Swalwell is suspending his campaign following allegations of sexual assault and misconduct and rape, like repeated rape.
Swalwell says the allegations from at least four women are false, but he announced Sunday that he would take on that fight outside his campaign.
Quote, I am suspending my campaign for governor.
To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I've made in the past.
I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not a campaign's.
Swalwell, who has been gaining a series of influential endorsements, was seen as a possible front runner.
Not only has he lost every endorsement, apparently he got kicked out of the house he was staying in.
I think I got some right here.
Look at this.
Billionaire kicks Eric Swalwell out of his mansion and wants $1 million back after heinous sex allegations.
Yikes.
It's not going too well for our buddy over here, Eric Swalwell.
He posted to my friends, family, and staff.
We already did see this one 10.8 million views on X.
And here's one of the videos.
Now, there are two videos.
One shows him kissing the woman.
I'm not going to play that one.
I know it's not particularly bad, but this one just has him on the bed with the woman.
Jack Basobic tweets.
I have just obtained a new video of what appears to be Congressman Eric Swalwell taken moments after the first video that has been circulating today.
I have also received a digital forensics report attesting to the veracity of both it and the initial video.
And this just shows him with the woman.
They're not really doing anything, and he just pulls her back.
She laughs.
That's about it.
There's another guy there.
A lot of people are pointing out that Swalwell has small feet relative to this other guy's big feet, which, sure, I guess, whatever.
Well, here's the article on the allegations from the San Francisco Standard, for which I am going to say, I don't know if I believe it.
I mean, listen, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
And if you have a woman saying that she went home with Swalwell and woke up feeling like something had occurred, you know, let me read this story for you and then I'll give you my thoughts on the matter.
The allegations have the potential to sink the East Bay congressman's gubernatorial campaign.
See, this story was from a few days ago and it already did.
Rep Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for governor, has been publicly accused of sexual assault following weeks of rumors about misconduct.
The allegations have potential to sink his gubernatorial campaign, which we know they did.
So here we go.
A former staffer alleges that he pressed himself on her sexually while she worked for him and had sex with her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent.
The woman told the paper that Swalwell began pursuing her after she was hired at 21 to work in his office in East Bay.
Swalwell, who is married and has three children, sent Photos of his genitals to the younger staffer on Snapchat and pursued her sexually.
In September of 2019, the woman said she woke up naked in Swalwell's hotel room after a dinner out with friends and felt the physical effects of intercourse.
She later left his office but continued to work in politics.
In April of 2024, the accuser attended an awards ceremony in New York where Swalwell was being honored.
After meeting up with him, she got drinks with him and ended up intoxicated in his hotel room where he forcibly had sex with her, she claims.
The Chronicle corroborated her claims with medical records and by speaking with friends she had confided in and a former boyfriend.
In response to the claim, Swalwa's attorney sent a cease and desist letter to the counsel of the accuser and raised the possibility of a defamation suit.
Guys, I'm sorry.
In this instance, considering, let me pull up this website here.
It's called California Top Two Twins, Paul Mitchell's primary simulator.
Look, I'm going to click this.
Here's what you can see.
Steve Hilton is high probability of making the top two.
Swalwell was in second place.
Dead Chad Bianco.
Now, for the most part, it has been for some time speculated that Bianco and Hilton would be the two frontrunners, meaning California's getting a governor no matter what, this primary system, right?
Well, many people have been begging a Democrat to drop out.
If one Democrat drops out and those votes go to another Democrat, Then you're going to get Democrat versus Republican.
As for this probability, it looked like Swalwell was going to be one of two Democrats, but predictions still had it largely that it was going to be a Republican.
Swalwell was doing better and better.
Based on that, I'd be more inclined to believe that there is political machinations afoot.
You see, this woman could have accused Swalwell at any point, but only now, in the midst of the political season, does this story come out.
Let's also take a look at the claims.
Guys, I'm not trying to defend Swalwell.
I don't like the guy, I think he's a bad guy.
Apparently, she gets drunk and goes to his hotel room and then wakes up feeling the effects of intercourse.
Okay, I mean, maybe that's possible that Swalwell had his way with a drunken lady.
I'm wondering if she is.
Listen, if you're choosing to get drunk and then choosing to go to, like, you make these choices.
You can't be like, but she was drunk.
She has no responsibility.
Sure, then every DUI would be thrown out, right?
Sounds to me like Swalwell and this lady had a bunch of drinks, went up and, if you know what I mean.
So then, five years later, she meets up with him again.
Gets drunk, goes to his hotel room, and then says, Oh no, I can't believe this happened.
Guys, it sounds to me like she's just a woman banging Eric Swalwell.
But now that it's politically advantageous, she comes out and says, Oh no, oh heavens me, this was forced on me.
It's certainly possible, and there are instances where women can get abused, can't get raped, and then go back to the guy and they get raped again thinking it won't happen.
But I'm just, I'm sorry.
I, I'm going to have to say, if you don't have any strong evidence of this, you can't just claim that two times you got drunk with Swalwell, went to his hotel room and had sex, but didn't want to either time.
The first time, we're like, okay, tell me what happened.
Did Swalwell do this?
The second time, it's like, well, you claimed it happened once before.
Why would you go back to his room again?
I just, I'm not playing stupid games, guys.
And don't get me wrong.
Swalwell's not a good dude.
You know what I mean?
But my point is just that this reeks of political machinations.
Quote, these allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor.
For nearly 20 years, I have served the public as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women.
I will defend myself with the facts and, where necessary, bring legal action.
My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies.
The Chronicle story was followed by a report from CNN where four women described sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including multiple cases where he unsolicited nude photos and had sex with women who were heavily intoxicated.
Swalwell denied the accusations.
I also want to stress women choosing to get drunk, choosing in that inebriate state to go and be with a guy is not a crime the guy has committed.
And don't get me wrong.
If the woman is passed out, yes, right.
If you have a guy and a girl, a chick and a bro, and they're both drunk and they both hook up, there's no crimes.
A woman can't come out later and be like, but I was drunk.
Too effing bad.
You chose to get drunk and you did all of these things.
Now, I do think there's a fair point in a guy intentionally does not get drunk to be of sound mind, to manipulate the woman and getting her drunk.
Maybe then you have some kind of argument using intoxication as a means to then hook up with the chick.
But this is a thin line here, man.
Swalwell goes to a bar with a lady, gets her some drinks.
She gets drunk.
He says, You want to go back to my place?
She says, Yes.
They hook up.
Then she goes, Now that I'm sober, I regret this.
Well, I'm sorry, man.
Again, are we going to throw out every single DUI a woman gets because it's not her fault?
Anyway, they say in the wake of the allegations, Politico reported that several top campaign staffers have resigned, including senior advisor Courtney Pugh, who served as a top liaison to organized labor groups that have been major backers of Swalwell.
Rep Jimmy Gomez has resigned as co chair of Swalwell's campaign and called on him to leave the race.
My involvement in any campaign begins and ends with trust.
I cannot, in good conscience, remain in any role with this campaign.
I am stepping down from it effective immediately.
Speaker Emerita Nancy, Speaker Emerita.
Thought it was a name for a second.
Should learn my words.
Nancy Pelosi has called for Swellwell to withdraw from the race, joining a growing chorus of major politicians asking for him to drop out.
As we continue to learn more, his allegations from multiple sources are deeply troubling.
Oh boy, here's where it gets real fun.
So here's the Calche prediction market for the California governor's race.
And we can see that since Swellwell is no longer on here, take a look at this.
Tom Steyer spikes.
On April 7th, Tom Steyer jumped up to 31%.
I think someone knew something.
And then, Met Mahan, for some reason, on April 10th, when the story breaks, Met Mahan becomes the frontrunner on Kalshi and then immediately drops off and is now in the worst position underneath Katie Porter.
There's even speculation now that Eric Swalwell will be out as a member of the House very soon.
We've got this before May 1st, 57%.
And before November 3rd, 82% in the prediction markets.
Guys, I'm going to say this.
I'm going to say this.
Someone knows something.
I think Eric Swalwell probably told some people, I'm going to get out of here.
The New York Intelligence says Swalwell implosion creates a whole new race for California governor.
And there it is, my friends.
Let's click here to see who's making the top two.
Swalwell is still a factor because it's just running the polls.
But this is the important point.
It's a new race, baby.
Swalwell was considered to be a front runner, but there were concerns Bianca would beat him out.
Now that Swalwell is gone, it's Tom Steyer.
Indeed, Steyer's at 56.4% to win.
This is getting interesting.
Now, of course, Katie Porter, who was also in second place in the prediction market, says The allegations against Congressman Swalwell are horrifying.
I'm thinking of the courageous women who have come forward to share their stories.
We believe you and we stand with you.
To which Julie Grace says, the community note on this one is a doozy, which reads Katie Porter is an alleged domestic abuser who poured scalding potatoes on her ex husband's head.
She's also been seen on camera verbally berating staff for minor slights and has been described as abusive herself.
Wasn't Katie Porter the lady who ate with a comb?
Was that her?
Let's see.
Based on the certain.
Who was the Democrat who was eating with a comb?
Katie Porter.
I don't know.
Maybe it wasn't Katie Porter.
Katie Porter tells staffer to get the F out of my shot.
I love this.
Do we have the video on this one?
Come on, tell me you have the video.
Do you link it at least?
They say the video surfaces.
Where is it?
Footage, Politico.
Get the F out of.
Oh, come on.
Let me pull it up on X so we can make sure we have this.
This is Katie Porter was trying to film something.
Katie Porter, get the F.
And then a staffer walks in and she just loses her mind.
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And it's also not just the individual savings, but it's also the total savings for our economy.
So I'm on the Oversight Committee, you might know.
And that is where we did a study recently this fall in September.
And what it showed is if we don't blah blah blah, here we go.
Other problems, and this morning it's dying.
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Get out of my shot.
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I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
It was the other middle aged Karen like woman who I confused you with.
Yeah, Klobuchar ate her salad with a comb, reports.
I'm so bored of politics.
At least we have something like this, I guess.
At least, right?
I guess.
Okay.
Whatever.
Well, here we are, my friends.
This is Katie Porter screaming at a staffer, and she's apparently in second.
She's in second to win in this governor's race.
Now, Swalwell apparently got kicked out of this mansion.
We highlighted this earlier.
Lefty billionaire Steven Klubeck dramatically cut ties with Swalwell and revealed he has kicked him out of his mansion.
Hours before the congressman dropped his run for California governor.
I don't want to say this, guys, but I just hate Democrat elites.
I hate them so much.
They are all a bunch of fake robot self interested people.
Are you friends with Eric Swalwell?
Okay, well, stand by your friends.
You want to hook this guy up, you want to bring him into your inner circle, then you're going to throw him out, pissed off, because he might besmirch your good name.
You know, on Friday, I made this video talking about.
My friends and betrayers and the disloyal and things like this.
And I'll say what I said then and I'll say it again.
I have friends and people have told me not to have certain individuals on my show anymore.
Why are you inviting this person or that person?
I said, no, they're my friends.
Yeah, that's it.
Screw off.
I may disagree with them, but there's a lot more to this world than, I don't know, looking good on the internet for strangers.
I really, really just don't care about that.
So, there have been a handful of people who have certainly drawn the ire of the public.
And people have said, this person's a bad person.
You shouldn't be friends with them.
And I'm like, that's never going to happen.
Now, I'll put it like this if there's somebody I know who's a friend and they say something abhorrent, well, I think the effective thing is to stay friends and bring them in and say, hey, hey, look, like you can't be saying these things.
You know what I mean?
And there's a handful of people that we've hosted.
I'm not going to do that.
Now, this is what's funny.
This guy, Stephen Kluback, cuts ties with Eric Swalwell.
Were you friends with him from the get go?
And then he's accused of this wrongdoing?
Listen, there's a line, of course.
You know, if I knew somebody and they were a friend of mine and they did something truly evil or whatever, then fine.
If I had a friend who was accused of these things and someone asked me to cut ties with them, I'd say, not interested.
Listen, there's a court of law.
You come to me and prove that my friend did something wrong, and we can consider what that means.
However, this is the reason why I say I hate these people.
Is that this guy's friends with Swalwell for no reason other than he wants power.
That's it.
And now that Swalwell is a risk to him and that he can't get anything from him, he's like, Away with ye, Swalwell.
You are now persona non grata.
I'm just not interested in living in a world where people do this kind of stuff, right?
Well, we've got this from Mediite.
CNN legal expert warns prosecutors to avoid landmine in Swalwell sexual assault case.
California Democrat Eric Swalwell dropped his bid for governor. after four women accused him of sexual misconduct, including one former staffer who says Swalwell sexually assaulted her after a night of heavy drinking.
In a video message, the congressman acknowledged making, quote, mistakes in judgments, but denied the sexual assault allegations.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said it is investigating after, as the incident was said to have happened in New York City.
With us now, CNN senior legal analyst, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ellie Hone.
So, John, a case like this is likely to come down to the single issue of consent.
Was this sexual contact consensual or non consensual?
Now, the first thing prosecutors will do naturally is speak to the complainant.
The woman, get her full statement, get as much detail as they can.
Prosecutors also will likely reach out to the accused.
Eric Swall will hear you have to go through his defense lawyer.
He'll have the opportunity to speak to prosecutors, although, of course, he does not have to do that.
Then you're in the position of looking for what we call corroboration.
You want to look at all the other evidence.
So, for example, What were this woman's statements to others at or around the time?
According to the reporting, there is evidence that this woman told friends and family members that she had had this contact with Representative Swalwell and that it was non consensual.
You want to look at the conversations at and after the fact between the complainant and the accused.
You want to look and see if there's any medical records.
The reporting here is that the woman had pregnancy and STD testing.
So that's something short of a full medical workup.
And then, John, the key thing to keep in mind is for prosecutors, the question is not.
Who is more believable or which side is more likely?
Prosecutors, remember, have to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
So that's a very high burden that prosecutors will bear.
Yeah, so the allegedly criminal conduct that the DA is investigating relates to one of the four women, but prosecutors likely will want to speak to the other three women.
who had other sorts of unwanted advances, photos and texts and exposure from Eric Swalwell.
Now, prosecutors have to be careful here, though, because you might be able to offer that evidence if this case ever went to trial as a prosecutor by saying, well, it establishes a pattern.
However, judges and prosecutors can get in trouble if you bring in too much of this, what we call other bad acts evidence.
For example, Harvey Weinstein had one of his convictions thrown out because prosecutors introduced and judges admitted too much of that.
Other bad acts evidence.
So I think if you're a prosecutor, you do want to speak to these three other women, but I think you want to be careful with how you use that evidence.
He could have just dropped out of the race and disappeared, and he'd be a rich guy, and that's it.
But he wanted to be the governor of California.
Now he may be a convicted inmate in a New York prison.
It was Danton who said, Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
Yeah, because did they cut Danton's head off?
Danton, he was executed, right?
Because the French basically executed everybody.
He was guillotined April 5th, 1794, in Paris at the Place des Revolutions, along with Camille Desmoulins and others.
Executed during the Reign of Terror after opposing Robespierre, he famously requested his head be shown to the people, saying, It is worth the trouble.
The evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
And the complaint that I've heard from the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
And the complaint that I've heard from the evidence.
He says the president used campaign dollars to help him cheat an election.
Why pause there?
Why?
What's that all about, huh?
No, I'm going to be honest with you guys.
Dude farted on TV and, you know, he was a good little Democrat for a while.
I love this conspiracy theory.
With this video going viral of Swalwell with what people say is a lady of the night, and maybe that lady isn't, so it's like everybody's accusing her of being a sex worker, and it's like, what if she's not?
You know, what if she's just like a woman who's hanging out with them, I guess?
I don't know.
The conspiracy theory is this is a prerequisite for working in the political establishment.
You must have some kind of leverage that they can hold over you.
It hearkens to the Epstein conspiracies where powerful elites allegedly were doing bad things, and there's videos of it.
Some people say this is it.
Swalwell wasn't intentionally cheating on his wife.
There's a reason why this is being filmed.
The conspiracy theory is that they make you film this if you want to be in politics.
That way they can release it to destroy you if you ever try to break ranks.
I wonder, did Swalwell think, if that's true, he could oppose the machine?
Even if it's not true, even if it's just Swalwell paying hookers, and there's no deeper conspiracy, with the machine wanting Democrats to drop out to stop a Republican from winning.
Well, any real Republican that wanted to win, you could argue there's a fake Republican, but the Republicans that are in the front don't want a Democrat to advance.
Only a Democrat would want this.
Indeed, my friends.
Only a Democrat.
And it is these Democrat female staffers that are accusing him because these people are evil.
They are disloyal betrayers.
But you know what?
I said it before, I'll say it again.
Eric, live by the sword, as they say.
Or one way to put it is, you will now reap what you have sown.
I'm going to leave it there, my friends.
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