Eric Swalwell, a hypocrite on due process rights – Latest News
Disgraced former congressman Eric Swalwell complained as he resigned that he had been denied “due process.”
Not actually. He merely misplaced all of his political assist amid horrific allegations of sexual assault.
But at long final, Swalwell has at the very least lastly acknowledged that due process rights exist. These are the rights that he and different Democrats have denied to their political enemies for more than a decade.
Eric Swalwell questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee oversight listening to of the Department of Justice on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Getty Images
The left’s assault on due process started, ironcally, with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter motion. When a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict former police officer Darren Wilson for capturing Michael Brown in 2014, Al Sharpton, the New York Times, and others attacked the grand jury system itself.
It didn’t matter that Brown had attacked Wilson, even reaching inside Wilson’s police car and making an attempt to take his gun, then charging towards him on the road.
According to the left, even the flimsy protections that grand juries offer to defendants had been too beneficiant for police to take pleasure in.
Then got here Donald Trump, and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Lonna Drewes mentioned she thought she was associates with the congressman however claimed he spiked her drink earlier than choking and sexually assaulting her in West Hollywood. REUTERS
Democrats made up a hoax about Russian “collusion,” and compelled the appointment of a particular counsel. The late Robert Mueller took the job, although he knew there was no proof of wrongdoing
Innocent people’s lives had been ruined as partisan prosecutors tried to convey down the president.
The assault on due process rights intensified with the Senate affirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Judge Kavanagh had coasted by his listening to, however was then hauled back earlier than the Senate to face unsubstantiated accusations by Stanford professor Christine Blasey Ford.
Not content material with Ford’s uncorroborated claims from a long time earlier than, Democrats started hurling every kind of sensational allegations, together with gang rape, on the revered conservative decide.
Here’s the most recent on the allegations in opposition to Rep. Eric Swalwell
Swalwell was amongst those that declared Kavanaugh guilty by accusation alone.
The following 12 months, Swalwell, who was on the House Intelligence Committee, was half of Adam Schiff’s impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
The whole affair was cooked up by Schiff, who held closed-door hearings within the Capitol basement. He prevented Republicans from asking questions in regards to the so-called “whistleblower,” and auditioned the witnesses, making sure that solely anti-Trump voices would seem in public hearings. He and Jerry Nadler additionally barred Republicans from calling their own witnesses.
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Swalwell later returned as a House supervisor for Trump’s second impeachment trial, an unconstitutional farce wherein Democrats doctored proof, omitting key elements of the president’s Jan. 6 speech wherein he urged supporters to protest peacefully.
Lately, Swalwell joined fellow Democrats in sensationalizing the Epstein recordsdata, berating FBI director Kash Patel for supposedly hiding data that, Swalwell insinuated, implicated President Trump.
So when Swalwell complains that his due process rights have been violated, the best that may be mentioned is that he’s one thing of an knowledgeable on the subject.
Like Robespierre within the French Revolution, who was finally destroyed by the Terror he had unleashed in opposition to others, Swalwell has discovered his own lesson a little too late for sympathy.
