Thanks to Cynical Publius for laying out what is really going on here. It’s Democrats who are throwing their buddy under the bus in order to improve their chances of winning the California governor’s race. Because they already knew that Swalwell was a scumbag, but they don’t really care about that. He’s also stupid, and never kept it a secret that he’s a serial adulterer. The rape charges are just the cherry on top.

The important thing is that he is vulnerable, and expendable. Within minutes of the story appearing, Pelosi and Schiff immediately withdrew their support.

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So a bunch of women have come forward accusing Democrat Congressman (and candidate for the governor of California) Eric Swalwell of gross sexual impropriety and even sexual assault. It’s worth understanding what is really going on here.

While it is easy and fun to mock the seeming demise of one of the worst, most untruthful, greasiest, most compromised, most obnoxious leftist politicians ever to leave a slime trail up the stairs into the main hall of Congress, I think we should stop for just a moment and consider that it is actually possible that Eric Swalwell might be innocent of the worst sexual assault allegations suddenly emerging against him.

The context is everything, and the context is the 2026 California gubernatorial election. It’s still primary season, and California has this crazy thing called a “jungle primary” in which all candidates in all political parties are tossed into a single primary election, and the two candidates who emerge with the highest percentage of the primary vote advance to the general election. The purpose of this process is to ensure that it will always be two Democrats in the general election, and no Republican can ever even get in the way as a general election candidate. (Great “democracy” they have there in the Golden State, isn’t it?)

Well guess what? They ended up with eight Democrat candidates and two GOP candidates in the primary, and depending on what poll you consult, it is possible that two Republican candidates might emerge as the two top primary winners, guaranteeing a Republican governor emerges in the general election. In other words, the distorted, undemocratic system installed in California by the Democrat majority is backfiring on them, and now they are scrambling to save themselves—and the only way to do that is to dilute or eliminate the support to one of the leading Democrat candidates, thereby kicking that support to another Democrat, thereby guaranteeing that at least one Democrat is on the ballot in November for the two-candidate general election.

And Eric Swalwell is the designated fall guy.

There are two possibilities that must be considered in that context:

Option #1: Swalwell is in fact a sexual predator. If this is the case, and it may well be, it has been well known in Democrat circles for a very long time, and because nothing matters more to Democrats than power, they have been holding this in reserve until needed. (In all likelihood this is true for many more politicians on both sides of the aisle.)

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Option #2: The Democrats are doing to Swalwell what they did to Clarence Thomas. And Donald Trump. And Brett Kavanaugh. And who knows how many others. In other words, they may have fabricated another Christine Blasey Ford to come at Swalwell. Don’t put it past them—the California governor’s seat is important enough to throw one of their own under the bus.

Also, keep in mind—the Democrat leadership has only asked Swalwell to step away from the governor’s race and not to resign from Congress. That fact alone explains the true motivations here.

I am not saying Swalwell is innocent, I am just saying consider the possibility because it is certainly within the standards of Democrat behavior to frame him.

Consider also that it best serves conservative purposes for Swalwell to stay in the California race.

Knowledge is power, and I think it is important that we all understand what is really going on here.