Eric Swalwell faces severe allegations of drugging, raping, and choking women, with Nancy Pelosi allegedly unaware despite internal knowledge. The discussion shifts to U.S.-NATO tensions over Pope Francis's silence on Iran, which Sean Hannity calls the top terror sponsor, criticizing Italian PM Meloni for defending the pontiff. Hannity argues Western decline stems from illegal immigration and Sharia courts, while detailing a naval blockade aiming to bankrupt Iran before potential military action against its nuclear program if negotiations fail. Ultimately, the episode links domestic moral decay with international strategic failures against authoritarian regimes. [Automatically generated summary]
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Drugged Hotel Room Allegations00:07:42
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Linda, did you see the latest allegation of this woman speaking out against Mr. Fang Fang Eric Swalwell?
We actually have a copy of the tape, and he raped me, he choked me.
While he was choking me, I lost consciousness.
I thought I died.
I believe he drugged my drink.
I only had one glass of wine.
I did not consent to any sexual activity.
He was married at the time and his wife was pregnant.
He said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.
When I arrived to his hotel room, I was already incapacitated.
I couldn't move my arms or my body.
Listen.
I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant.
He was my friend.
On the third occasion, I believe he drugged my drink.
I only had one glass of wine.
We were supposed to go to a political event, and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.
When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn't move.
My arms are my body.
He raped me and he choked me.
And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness.
And I thought I died.
I did not consent to any sexual activity.
Now, it is not the only woman that is making these allegations.
Here is another Eric Swalwell accuser, former staffer, who alleges Swalwell sexually assaulted her in 2024.
After a night of heavy drinking, listen.
You don't remember anything.
I remember the next day.
I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me.
It was a lot more aggressive.
It was aggressive.
Did you say no?
Yes, I said no.
I said, in my flash that I can recall, I was pushing him off of me, saying no.
And what did he do?
He didn't stop.
Then we have yet another accuser describing how he started out as a mentor, but eventually he invited her to a hotel.
Listen.
He offered to mentor me.
Wow.
That was as someone who knew virtually nothing about politics at the time or no one.
That was just an incredibly generous offer that I felt very lucky to have.
She says Swanwell created a group chat with all the students and then added her as a friend on the messaging app Snapchat.
And so I asked the other people that were in the meeting, did he add them?
And they said no.
Were they all men?
Yes.
I was the only woman in the meeting.
She says, Swalwell, who was then in his late 30s, started out talking politics, but his messages soon turned flirtatious.
Ultimately, it reached a point where he invited me to a hotel to meet him.
It was very clear what the connotation was.
At that point, I completely stopped responding.
What I keep thinking back to is how lucky I am that I didn't go to that hotel.
Yet another accuser who was a staffer saying Swalwell was sending her pictures of his private parts.
Listen.
Tell me more about the unsolicited photos he sent you.
Yeah, so the messages gradually became more inappropriate and they became later into the night, times that nobody should be talking to a congressman or a congressman should be talking to a young girl.
He would say things like, What are you doing?
What are you wearing?
Send me a photo of what you're doing right now.
And then eventually, one night we were talking and he just sent me a photo of his genitals.
Unsolicited.
Unsolicited, yeah.
I mean, the walls are literally collapsing on Swalwell this morning.
Yeah, he's done with Congress, he's done with his gubernatorial bid.
Now, there is an investigation, Alvin Bragg in New York, who I don't have a high degree of confidence in.
And I noticed yesterday, for example, that it didn't draw much attention when this woman that we just heard from said she was drugged to the point of unconsciousness when Swalwell forced her to have sex, though it didn't draw much attention yesterday.
The accounts of two now additional women accusing him of a pattern of rape.
Indicate they also were drugged by the now former Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner before they were sexually attacked.
But it, you know, this woman saying it just is horrible.
I mean, what really is scary about this to me is, and we discovered this yesterday, is how many people apparently knew about his behavior for a long period of time and what that means.
In terms of what's coming forward.
Now, if I had to look into my crystal ball here today, I would tell you that it probably means that his future is in a jail cell, probably, maybe very likely for the rest of his life.
I mean, this is Harvey Weinstein stuff, and it just keeps getting worse.
And this is not something that.
I think in any way is going away for him.
Listening to these women one after another, I'm having a hard time, you know, thinking that any jury would ever acquit him.
Even in the most liberal jurisdiction, I just can't see it.
Well, you know, we'll have to wait and see what happens as this continues to unfold.
But, you know, I believed he drugged my drink.
There's a very, very dark, sick, evil human being in there if these women are all telling the truth.
Truth, and I have no reason to doubt them at all whatsoever.
We have some updates on the Iran situation.
We'll have more on this story coming up later in the program at the top of the next hour.
So there is now a major schism between the U.S. and our NATO allies that has emerged here.
And the latest person to really, I guess, get in the middle of this is now the, you know, is Georgia Maloney.
Pope Silence on Iran Regime00:15:03
And he, of course, was the prime minister of Italy.
And he said, I find President Trump's remarks about the Holy Father unacceptable.
I find the Pope's comments unacceptable in this regard.
And I have deep respect for a Pope and I have deep respect for the Catholic faith.
I was raised Catholic, 12 years at Catholic schools.
I studied theology, Latin, and in high school, and went to Mass every day.
And I went to 12 years of Catholic schools, and it was a great experience in my life.
I think the Catholic Mass is beautiful.
I get a lot out of it.
I have problems with the church more specifically, and I've discussed them publicly before how they institutionalized corruption and hid it for such a long period of time.
I also have problems with church made rules that I think led to a lot of the problems that the church took on.
For the first 1,200 years of the church, priests were allowed to marry.
I think once they took away the ability of priests to marry, 11 of the 12 disciples were married.
I think Jesus was very familiar.
Adam and Eve, we can go back to Adam and Eve and God's creation of Eve out of the rib of Adam so that he would have a companion is biblical in every sense of the word.
So I think it's a more natural state for people.
Some people choose, if they want to choose, to.
To devote their lives to their faith.
I respect that completely.
But this was a church made rule, and it was made 1,200 years into the church's history.
And when you look at the real reasons behind it, I think one of the driving forces of it was money and the fear of losing a lot of money if a priest or priests were to get divorces and then property issues would come up.
Although I'm not really sure how that would be an issue if it's the church that actually owns the property, but that's a separate issue legally speaking.
And I just find that all of the corruption that in the church, I mean, they now have reduced the potential number of candidates for the priesthood down to a very small portion of the population.
I think most men prefer to go through life being married.
I'm speaking broadly, I'm speaking generally.
I think most women prefer to be married, but people make other individual decisions.
I make no judgment against what people decide to do in their life.
That's what freedom is all about.
And who am I to judge what people do?
Especially adults.
I don't make any judgments.
I believe completely in liberty and freedom for people.
And, but what frustrates me about the Catholic Church and the Pope in this particular case and him speaking out against the war, against the number one state sponsor of terror, the people that were responsible for orchestrating and training what happened on October 7th, the people that have killed untold people.
Tens of thousands of their own citizens in a crackdown politically just recently.
The country that has been fomenting terror in the entire region and around the world now, going on for 47 years.
A society that oppresses women to such an extent that if they don't dress a certain way, they are brutally beaten.
Or if they're really dressing out of line, they can be killed for such.
Or, you know, you talk about a lack of tolerance.
If you're gay or lesbian, you're brought to a The top of a tall building, and you're thrown off the building.
And I can't find instances in which the church has spoken out strongly against the number one state sponsor of terror.
And unfortunately, evil has always existed.
And look, there is different analysis if you want to look at the Catholic Church and their reaction to Hitler and the rise of fascism and Nazism and World War II, in that their criticism was muted at best.
And while they did make humanitarian efforts to help individuals out, and they deserve all the credit in the world for that, because that was a courageous thing to do.
I think the church could have been more outspoken about evil in its time.
They were very concerned and they made a deal.
I believe it was in 1932 or 33.
I think it was, I'm not sure, it was Pope Pius XI and then later the 12th, I forget, that actually went into an agreement with Germany to protect Catholics, which the Nazis rejected outright almost from day one.
So, I'm a little frustrated at this.
So, however, the president's come under criticism for challenging the Pope because I think that the church should stand, and I think people that are spiritual should stand against evil, especially evil in our time.
And there's nothing more evil than radical Islamic terrorism.
There's no regime on the face of this earth that has been more evil than the Iranian regime, that has been more repressive of the human condition and human rights, which I believe is God's natural state for mankind, than this regime.
And yet, while they're critical of Donald Trump, Who is bringing an end to this evil in our time?
They have been silent on the atrocities that have been committed by this regime.
And I have a hard time understanding it.
Now, the problem comes in when you have people like Giorgio Maloney of Italy criticizing President Trump and his remarks about the Holy Father are unacceptable.
No, they're not unacceptable because President Trump is calling out the Pope for his lack of moral clarity.
And I think the Pope lacks moral clarity when it comes to speaking out against the human atrocities and murder of this regime.
And so now this further creates a bigger schism with NATO and Europe and Western Europe in particular.
And I think Western Europe is in a steep decline in large part because of unfettered illegal immigration, no assimilation, resulting in Sharia courts in Great Britain, no go zones in France and other parts of Europe.
And I think you add to that radical socialism, radical climate alarmism, and a lack of focus on national security and national defense.
I mean, we've got a problem.
And then we just saw that Iran had secured a UN role and Western democracies, including the UK, France, Canada, Australia, now they're facing a backlash because they've allowed Iran and other authoritarian regimes to secure seats on these influential UN bodies, the United Nations bodies, United Nations Economic Social Council, a 54 member body, plays a central role in shaping the UN policy.
And they're even putting these countries known for.
Radical terrorism.
They're even putting him on human rights commissions.
It's insane.
Anyway, 8- The biblical evidence to prove that I'm right and Lindertarianism is wrong.
And it's from Matthew.
If you want to look it up, I'll give you the actual place to look for it later.
And then we're going to put this discussion to rest once and for all by the end of the show today.
It's got to end because I can't take it.
I'm going to tell you when we get back exactly what the president is doing and the two scenarios that will play out.
One or the other will play out.
Straight ahead.
Never stops working for the good of the country.
Sean Hannity with behind the scenes information on today's breaking news.
Hannity is on right now.
I guess what frustrates me as I watch the world's fear, especially Europe's fear, and our NATO allies, you know, abandon us against the number one state sponsor of terror.
That's the frustrating part.
You know, I wish the Pope would have spoken out as strongly.
Against the Iranian regime and the murder and the terror that they have been responsible for.
But that never seems to be part of the equation.
And the idea that Iran secured a role at the United Nations with the backing of Great Britain and France and Canada and Australia, and America stands alone saying, no, we're not doing that.
And UN Watch warning dictatorships will now hold a majority on the committee that controls NGO accreditation.
It's so corrupt.
Or you're going to put countries like Iran and Russia on the Human Rights Commission?
It is a worthless organization.
All these globalist organizations we've been arguing for years are worthless.
We've been arguing that the continent of Europe is in a precipitous decline.
We're not wrong about that.
It is so obvious.
And, you know, the one thing Donald Trump said to the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgio Maloney, over Iran's nuclear capabilities as she was criticizing his comments about the Pope.
The Pope ought to be criticizing radical Islamists that have been slaughtering their own people, but he didn't bother to mention that.
He didn't bother to speak out about October 7th that I've seen.
He didn't bother to speak out about state sponsored terrorism.
He didn't bother to condemn the number one state sponsor of terror.
None of that happened.
And what Trump said is he was kind of shocked by the Italian prime minister's comments.
She used to be a bit of an ally.
And he said it's she who's unacceptable because she obviously doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon.
And that they'd be able to blow up Italy in two minutes if they had the chance.
Now, that's what radical Islamists do.
This is a death cult.
These are Islamo fascists.
They think they're doing Allah's will when they slaughter innocent men, women, and children.
They have no problem using their own citizens as human shields, they have no problem strapping bombs on young, gullible, vulnerable individuals with a false promise of 72 virgins in heaven.
And now we discovered in the course of Epic Fury that they had, that the world had underestimated yet again Iranian capabilities and in particular their ballistic range, the ballistic missile range, which now could hit the continent of Europe and it could hit cities like Paris and London and other places.
And so, you know, Macron is under fire over Iran because, you know, the French politician is, you know, one French politician says Macron's government must stop normalizing Hezbollah.
Now, I think one of the problems is internally they have a problem.
And their problem happens to be that now larger and larger percentages of their population are these unvetted, illegal immigration without assimilation, but they also have the right to vote.
Did you ever think in our lifetime we'd have Sharia courts in Great Britain, no go zones in places in France and other parts of Europe?
I didn't think that would happen.
Let me play Thomas Friedman.
And this is a New York Times columnist.
He should be fired for this stupidity.
He says he's torn about rooting for the Iranian regime's downfall since it would give a win to Trump and Netanyahu.
Now, it is revealing because this is how many on the left feel.
Many on the left, although they're not even as honest as he's being, just want Trump to fail.
And if it means that Iran is successful, then they're okay with it.
This is Thomas Friedman.
I find myself, Michael, in a situation where I really want to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime.
Is a terrible regime for its people in the region.
And nothing would improve the region more than the replacement of this regime with a regime in Iran that was focused on enabling its people to realize their full potential and integrating peacefully with other countries and stop occupying Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
So I'm all for that.
The problem is, I really don't want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings.
They're both engaged in anti democratic projects in their own countries.
They're both alleged.
Crooks.
They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America standing in the world and Israel standing in the world.
And so I really find myself torn.
I want to see Iran militarily defeated, but I do not want to see these two terrible people strengthened.
You mean the two terrible people that have the moral clarity to make the world a safer place?
Those are the two terrible people he's talking about.
By the way, I digress here a minute as I go back to this just breaking.
Swalwell rape accuser has just met with the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
This 50 year old woman turning up at the West Hollywood station to hand over what she says are the damning text, photographs, and journal entries.
I would say we are officially probably on Mr. Fang Fang's pending arrest at this point.
If that story ends up being true, it's reported again by the New York Post.
There is a CBS report that Swalwell may face sexual misconduct allegations from as many as 30 accusers.
What has been going on here?
And how did so many people know and not say anything about this?
Nancy Pelosi had no idea Eric Swalwell was an alleged serial rapist.
I had no idea at all.
Oh, okay.
I'm sure that she didn't hear this among democratic circles, even though it's been reported that it was widely known out there.
Strait of Hormuz Tensions00:07:33
Let me go back to Iran for just a second, and I'm going to explain how this is going to play out.
And Pencom, by the way, correcting the record that no ships have made it past the U.S. naval blockade of Iran's ports or coastal areas.
And this is critical.
You know, when I first heard of blockade, I was worried that that meant that we would have our Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz as sitting ducks.
That's That's not how this operation is playing out.
However, we're keeping eyes all over Karg Island where any tanker would pull up their ship and fill up with oil and then take off.
No, they are not putting themselves in a position where the Iranians would have a pretty fair to medium shot at hitting a U.S. Navy vessel, so we can't have that happen.
Thank God.
We don't want that to happen.
No ships have made it past the U.S. naval blockade of Iran's ports.
And six merchant ships have followed orders to turn back, according to CENCOM.
And more than 10,000 U.S. sailors, Marines, and airmen, along with a dozen warships and dozens of aircraft, are executing the mission of blockading ships entering and deporting Iranian ports.
In other words, the purpose here is to bankrupt the Iranians.
That's what this is about.
This is their only source of income.
Now, there had been reports that a Chinese owned vessel had passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, the U.S. has reacted to this.
Bloomberg News reporting the U.S. said six merchant vessels.
Complied with instructions from its forces to turn around, re enter the Iranian port during the first day of the blockade.
In other words, they tried, but they didn't get through.
And the Chinese link ship was one of the ones that did a U turn after trying to run through America's Hormuz blockade.
Anyway, so it appears that the U turn of the sailing ship out of the Strait of Hormuz is real, and that is going to continue.
What does that mean?
Now, the president is showing great restraint here.
There is an easier way for the president.
Let me tell you what it is to blow up Karg Island.
The president wants to wipe out their ability to ever be able to make money for the foreseeable future and stop all its terrorism with it.
He could just blow up the island.
It wouldn't be hard.
They have no air defense systems.
We have proven we could pretty much go anywhere within the confines of the country of Iran.
They don't have the military means to fight back against the U.S., that is certainly on the table.
The president would rather not go down that road.
I'm pretty certain I understand why he's hoping that if he gives this just enough time, he's hoping that the Iranians will either come to the table and be reasonable this time and that he doesn't want to go down that route.
He's threatening to go down that route.
I don't think his patience will be endless, I think it's short lived.
And then the president will have to act.
It's going to end one of two ways.
Either the Iranians wake up, they allow the 60% enriched uranium, they hand it over, or the Americans will go in and just extract it.
Not the ideal situation in my mind, but there's no way that they can have the 60% enriched uranium.
Now, if our military leaders believe they can entomb it and keep eyes on it, that's a less favorable option only because it means that it could draw us.
Back into the region down the road after a period of time where they might be able to build up their ballistic missile systems.
I'm not sure if I love that idea.
However, if you want to define victory and success, it is that they will never be a nuclear power.
And ideally speaking, if we create this chokehold that is effective and they have no means of bringing money into that country and there's widespread suffering and poverty, I don't care how many Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces remain, and it's estimated to be around 100, 130,000, somewhere in that range.
Many of them have been killed.
And hopefully, some of them will begin to see the light and surrender and change sides.
And they would work with the freedom fighters within Iran.
And hopefully, an effort that could be successful in arming the Iranian people so they can take control of their own destiny.
But it really does have, we have the ability to end this very quickly or just give it a little bit more time.
As of today, the president has chosen to give it a little bit more time.
Now, if you read the tea leaves, they're saying, no, talks have not ended.
The talks are not finished, et cetera, et cetera.
I don't know what the status of those talks are.
All I know is that if President Trump wants to obliterate the Iranian ability to make money moving forward in the future, it could happen right now.
He doesn't have to wait.
I think the president's showing great restraint and patience and the hopes that eventually.
Reality will kick in and the Iranians will quickly realize that without money, they cannot survive.
Now, so far, the Iranians have not exactly proven themselves that they're open to any persuasive action.
It's unfortunate.
I mean, they could have avoided 14 bunker buster bombs before Midnight Hammer, they could have even avoided, they had an opportunity, they had 50 days before the Israelis struck.
And they chose not to act.
On day 51, the Israelis struck and they struck hard.
And they can all, you know, so it's really, you know, you have to wonder after all of their leadership has been taken out in the first tier, second tier, third tier, what is this fourth and fifth tier level of leadership thinking about when they come into this meeting in Islamabad with a list of demands that are non starters?
And then they won't agree on the issue of uranium, they won't agree on the Strait of Hormuz.
Then they even go as far as to say that they want the right to tariff international waterways, which again, these are things that are never going to happen for them.
There's a level of either arrogance or stupidity, or maybe it just exposes how deep their indoctrination is in 47 years living under a radical regime.
Maybe they just eat, breathe, sleep this indoctrination into radicalism.
And maybe they actually believe that dying and martyrdom.
Is the ultimate goal in life.
And at that point, that's irrational.
At that point, there will be no negotiated settlement.
At that point, the only way is to militarily destroy them, which we're capable of doing.
Is it a first choice?
No, it's not.
Is it an option that's on the table?
Of course it is.
But we'll see after three, four days of an embargo where no money is coming in, what will the reaction be then?
Rewriting the Bible00:01:06
Linda, you want to make a prediction?
And later we'll get into your biblical, what do we call it?
Linda somethingism.
Lindarianism.
Lindarianism.
Linda somethingism.
The Linda version of the Bible.
You know, Thomas Jefferson rewrote the Bible.
You're trying to rewrite the Bible.
I am not trying to rewrite the Bible.
I'm more of a musician than a writer.
Okay.
I can't wait.
I actually hope God, I'm going to say a prayer that God will let me listen in on the negotiations when you get up to the pearly gates.
I'm hoping I can be an observer and watch you go to the next one.
I hope you're not part of the judge and jury letting me in.
I'm going to be in trouble.
I'd vote you in.
I would.
I'd vote you.
Okay.
I wouldn't want you to rot in hell.
You'd be hanging out with all those leaders in Iran.
I wouldn't wish you luck on anybody.
She's a little.
Is the arrest of Mr. Fang Fang imminent?
We'll check in with Isabel Brown and Catalina Lauf on the other side.