Eric Swalwell spent the better part of four years telling anyone with a cable news contract that Donald Trump was a secret Russian operative. He sat on the House Intelligence Committee. He had access to classified information. He looked into cameras with that smug little grin and assured America he was one of the good guys protecting democracy from the bad guys.
Turns out the call was coming from inside the house. And the receipts — literally, the actual restaurant receipts — were in his own FEC filings the whole time.
Here’s what just happened. The LA County Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Swalwell drugged and sexually assaulted a woman named Lonna Drewes at a West Hollywood hotel back in July 2018. That’s not a Twitter accusation. That’s not a blog post. That’s a law enforcement unit that specializes in exactly these kinds of cases saying, “Yeah, we’re looking into this.”
And the reason they’re looking into it is because Swalwell’s own campaign expense records — the ones he filed with the Federal Election Commission, under penalty of law — are corroborating the specific details his accusers have been providing.
Let’s talk about those receipts for a second, because this is the part that should make every Democrat who ever put this man on television absolutely sick to their stomach.
One of Swalwell’s accusers — a woman who says he assaulted her on September 27, 2019 — described a dinner at Hap’s steakhouse in Pleasanton, California. She says she was given wine and woke up naked in his bed. Now, you might think that’s a hard thing to prove. Except Swalwell’s own FEC filings show repeated campaign expenses at Hap’s steakhouse throughout 2019. Including September. His campaign even filed a childcare expense form for that exact date — September 27, 2019.
His own paperwork puts him at the exact restaurant, on the exact night, that his accuser described.
You cannot make that up. Well, you could, but you’d have to be a time traveler who hacked into FEC databases years before the accusation was made. And last I checked, that technology is not available to civilians — or even to members of the House Intelligence Committee.
It gets better. Another accuser described a luxury yacht trip in southern France in 2022. Swalwell’s finance records? Flights to France. Expenses in Paris. The timeline matches. The locations match. The paper trail matches.
This isn’t one woman making one claim. We’re now at four accusers and counting. Drewes, who says he choked her until she lost consciousness — her words: “He raped me. And he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness” — plus three additional women with their own allegations of harassment and assault.
And where is Eric Swalwell right now? He resigned from Congress. Just packed up his desk and walked out. Not because he was voted out. Not because his term ended. He quit. The same guy who spent years demanding investigations into everyone else apparently decided he didn’t want to stick around for his own.
Funny how that works.
Remember, this is the man who had a literal Chinese spy on his campaign staff. Fang Fang — you can’t even make up a name that good — was a Chinese intelligence operative who got so close to Swalwell that the FBI had to pull him aside for a little chat about national security. And what happened? Nothing. Democrats kept him on the Intelligence Committee. Nancy Pelosi said she had “no knowledge” of any problems.
No knowledge. Sure, Nancy. The guy had a foreign spy in his office and you had no knowledge. He’s now facing multiple sexual assault accusations backed up by his own financial records, and you had no knowledge. At what point does “no knowledge” stop being a defense and start being an indictment?
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is also investigating now, by the way. So we’ve got the LA Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau and the Manhattan DA both taking a very serious look at a man who, until about five minutes ago, was one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars.
This is the same party that told us to “believe all women” for approximately eighteen months during the Kavanaugh hearings. They put that slogan on signs. They wore it on t-shirts. They screamed it from the Senate floor. But when it’s their guy? When the accusers have corroborating evidence from his own campaign filings?
Crickets.
We’re not even getting the “if true, this is concerning” treatment from the mainstream press. We’re getting silence. Full-on, lights-off, nobody-home silence.
Here’s the thing about FEC filings — they’re public records. They’re filed under penalty of law. They’re not opinion. They’re not spin. They’re line items that say “this person spent this money at this place on this date.” And right now, those line items are reading like a prosecution timeline.
Swalwell built his entire career on accusing other people of crimes they didn’t commit. He went on MSNBC so many times they probably had a parking spot with his name on it. He assured America that the walls were closing in on Trump approximately nine hundred times.
Well, Eric, the walls are closing in on somebody. And this time, the evidence isn’t a made-up dossier funded by your political opponents.
It’s your own expense reports.
