Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design — – Latest News
Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden youngster of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.
Today he’s roadkill, his identify erased from the signal exterior his congressional workplace, vultures feasting on his stays.
Swalwell’s scientific political eradication this week tells you every thing concerning the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and effectively they may transfer to keep to energy within the state they’ve managed for 15 years and run into the ground.
California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of their huge patronage system, fueled partially by unlawful migration and social providers fraud that has ripped tens, maybe tons of, of billions of {dollars} off the taxpayer and recycled it via unions and “grassroots” donations back into the get together.
That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts huge organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health providers and hospice care.
California Democrats, like presidential aspirant and Gov. Gavin Newsom, one other Pelosi protégé, flip a blind eye to the fraud because the price of prospering within the machine.
Illegal migration, turbocharged underneath Joe Biden by his Homeland Security secretary, California hit man Alejandro Mayorkas, additionally served the machine properly, by artificially inflating the state’s census counts and enabling voter fraud.
The census inflation led to further House seats for California and more electoral votes, and thus more energy in presidential elections.
In return, the machine sponsors and protects helpful buffoons like Swalwell, who was one of “Pelosi’s boys” from the minute he threw his hat into national politics as a 31-year-old San Francisco councilman with a mischievous grin and a lackluster legal profession behind him.
She most certainly sponsored Swalwell’s 2012 upset main defeat of Democratic incumbent Rep. Pete Stark, a 40-year get together veteran she couldn’t control.
From then on, Swalwell was her slavering pet canine, able to do her bidding.
His sexual proclivities had been an open secret in Washington, however that was by design.
The machine needs its protégés to be blackmailable, so they continue to be on the leash.
Pelosi put in him on probably the most important committees, together with House intelligence, the place he was aware about the nation’s labeled secrets and techniques.
She protected him when he was caught having an affair with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
She selected him as her lead assault canine towards Donald Trump, whose impeachment committee he sat on.
Swalwell was one of probably the most shamelessly dishonest peddlers of the Russia hoax.
He had no concepts of his own, however the son of a cop knew how to lie and cheat.
He may pose as a paragon of advantage whereas character assassinating his get together’s enemies.
Precipitous fall
Now within the space of 4 days Swalwell has been pressured to drop out of the California governor’s race the place he was the Democratic front-runner, has resigned from Congress after 13 years as a made man, and is underneath prison investigation after at the least 5 girls got here ahead to accuse him of drugging, sexually assaulting, and/or harassing them.
One girl stated he choked and raped her whereas she was so incapacitated she couldn’t raise her arms, to the purpose the place she thought she was going to die.
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Another girl stated he despatched her unsolicited images of his penis.
Shades of Hunter Biden, whose sugar brother Kevin Morris was additionally a Swalwell donor.
That’s how they roll within the Golden State.
The California billionaire whose home Swalwell holed up in when the allegations started has thrown him out, renounced the Democratic Party and now says “Eric who?” when reporters doorstop him.
Pelosi now claims with a straight face that she had no concept about Swalwell’s sins.
His DC roommate and “best friend in the whole world” Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego claims he knew nothing: “This man lived a double life.”
Gallego claims all he heard was rumors that Swalwell was a little “flirty.”
That’s one other means of describing a sleazy adulterer and serial harasser (at the least) of younger girls.
Swalwell satisfied himself he was untouchable, however while you get in its means, the get together machine will ruthlessly dispatch you.
Look at Biden, who stupidly thought being president made him highly effective.
The remaining humiliating coup de grâce was delivered on reside TV by the girl he thought was his pricey pal, Swalwell’s godmother Pelosi.
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Opening up race
In California’s bizarre main system, too many Democrats within the subject threatened to separate the vote in favor of formidable Republican Steve Hilton.
Taking out Swalwell has given hedge funder billionaire-turned soft-on-crime climate zealot Tom Steyer the sting, with one ballot exhibiting his odds of successful have jumped from 51 % to 56.
Behind Steyer is Katie “mashed potato” Porter — well-known for terrorizing her workers in leaked mood tantrums, and for allegedly attacking her hapless ex-husband by tipping a bowl of steaming mashed potatoes on his head and coming at him with a damaged espresso pot.
She has more than tripled her vote since Swalwell dropped out on Sunday.
Suddenly Hilton’s benefit is ebbing.
Swalwell acquired in the best way so the machine dispatched him.
He might finish up in jail.
He’s now whining about being denied “due process,” however what due course of did he ever give Brett Kavanaugh or Trump?
“Believe all women,” he stated concerning the farcically uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault Democrats concocted towards Kavanaugh.
Yet, in response to one of Swalwell’s accusers, he had simply finished to her, solely months earlier than, what he was accusing the innocent Kavanaugh of doing.
His poor spouse and children.
Swalwell will get his due course of in courtroom.
Good riddance.
Character is future.
The machine lives on.
