It’s Hard Not to Laugh at the Downfall of Eric Swalwell

By Derek Hunter 

It’s always the people you most suspect…

Everyone hates it when bad things happen to good people. In the case of the demise of Eric Swalwell, we’re lucky that isn’t the case. Swalwell is one of the dumbest and worst people to ever serve in the federal government, and I include all bureaucrats. The smug Californian was done in by his arrogance, and that’s worth laughing at.

Democrats have a natural protection from scandal, as the people with the jobs that are supposed to out such things are fully on their team. Not many steroid users were called out by their teammates; they just happily high-fived them at home plate after each homerun. Politics is no different, except the ‘roids are replaced with Viagra.

Democrat Eric Swalwell had a reputation for being a scumbag who slept around, cheating on his wife, and getting aggressive with young ladies. I didn’t know this, most people didn’t, but I can’t say I’m surprised – he always came off as someone who got high on his own supply, believing his own press releases.

No, I didn’t help cover up for Swalwell; the left-wing industrial complex did.

As the story broke, “journalists” started admitting they’d been hearing from women for years about Eric’s aggression and infidelity with staffers and others. They started admitting it on social media, which is kind of a weird flex to claim you’re so well sourced as a journalist that you had the “big” story that just broke, but kept quiet about it for reasons that make sense outside of partisan loyalty. How many more women were groped, grabbed, or otherwise violated because this “open secret” in D.C. was kept secret?

After years, Swalwell likely thought he’d not only gotten away with it, but that he could in perpetuity, because why not? Reporters knew it and didn’t report it; there was no reason to think that he hadn’t gotten away with it.

Why else would someone with that background – and likely that present, because there’s really no indication that he stopped – think to run for governor of California? A backbench d*****bag belching rhetorical bombs on MS Now every once in a while, sure, but the top of a ticket in the most populous state? I knew he was stupid, but damn.

Did you notice how quickly Democrats turned on him? Not in the media, they were too busy trying to pretend they didn’t know all along – covering their own a**es took up a lot of their time – but his fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives. There was no “That’s not the Eric Swalwell I know” or “I need to hear more about this because I’m shocked.” No, it was “He has to drop out of the governor’s race” almost immediately after the idea of the story started floating around.

Adam Schiff, another noted liar who was actually censured by the House for his history of lying, bailed right away – pulling his endorsement. Schiff was slower to distance himself from Ed Buck, a major Democrat donor who is serving time for luring young black men to his house and supplying them with drugs to have sex with them, killing two of them.
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Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries said he had to go, which means they not only knew and were hoping it would never come out, but it’s pretty likely that there is a whole lot more that has not been reported yet – a Footlocker’s worth of shoes left to drop.

Yesterday, the smarmy Swalwell announced his resignation from Congress as Democrats began to place conditions on expelling him.

We’re supposed to be impressed by how Democrats are acting since this story broke, but how many of them did all they could to prevent it from breaking? How many of Eric Swalwell’s fellow Democrats were hoping he’d either lose the primary for governor of California and simply leave Congress quietly at the end of his term, or even win the nomination and the election, thereby becoming the state’s problem and not theirs? Probably all of them, or at least all of them who didn’t engage in similar activities with him – pervs of a feather tend to flock together around the vulnerable.

Everything about Eric Swalwell was already gross; these developments only confirmed that “ick” vibe his vacant eyes only suggested. The bigger story here is how many people knew and actively covered it up, laughed it off, or participated. Unfortunately, all the people who could shed light on that likely fall into one or more of those categories, which means we’ll likely never know.

If you ever wondered how someone like Jeffrey Epstein could operate the way he did for so long, look no further than this and vote accordingly. 

Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.