The Culture War - Tim Pool - Democrats BETRAY Eric Swalwell With SEX SCANDAL To STEAL CA Governor Race

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00:00:59.280 connexontario.ca. A major political scandal has just erupted. Eric Swalwell, he's a Democrat,

00:01:05.440 member of the House, has just been accused of serious impropriety, forcing himself on a staff

00:01:11.220 for more than one time. And a video has emerged showing him with an alleged lady of the night.

00:01:17.100 Now, this is massive in that it's not just a scandal about Eric Swalwell cheating on his wife

00:01:23.020 and forcing himself on women. But there is a much bigger play here. You see, this guy has

00:01:29.220 just suspended his bid for California governor. Swalwell was the Democrat front runner. And up

00:01:35.560 until this point, he was the last hope for stopping a Republican sweep. Now, I will just

00:01:42.600 say this before we get into all the details. I believe the Democrats are the ones who knifed

00:01:47.600 Swalwell in the back, terrified that Republicans might actually take back California. Indeed.

00:01:56.220 Well, I can only say to Eric Swalwell, live by the sword, brother. But as the story goes,

00:02:01.040 it's like this. In California, in order to win the governor's race, you have an open primary first.

00:02:06.620 The top two candidates will then go to a runoff. The only problem for California is they only had

00:02:11.820 like two Republicans. So if you're a Republican, it's going to be one of these two guys.

00:02:16.520 If you're a Democrat, you had a massive field to choose from.

00:02:20.680 And because none of these Democrats were willing to drop out, they all wanted to be governor.

00:02:25.260 It split the Democrat vote.

00:02:27.760 That meant that the Republicans were in the top two spots.

00:02:31.420 So if this trend continued come November, the winners of the primary are going to be Republicans.

00:02:37.120 And the only option California would have for governor is going to be Republican A, Republican B.

00:02:43.900 Well, Swalwell wouldn't drop out.

00:02:45.320 No one would.

00:02:46.520 Then this scandal erupts and now he's been forced to suspend his campaign with some predicting he

00:02:53.300 might even resign from Congress. This is massive. Now, there's many, many more functions to this

00:03:01.380 scandal. Some speculate that the reason he's on video with some ladies of the night, allegedly,

00:03:07.280 is that it's a prerequisite for being in the club of dirty political evil.

00:03:12.600 That's a little bit too far for me. 0.85

00:03:14.400 I think the dude just might be, you know, I mean, having an affair with his wife.

00:03:19.020 But I do think it's fair to say that the Democratic machine intentionally leaked these information and this information, allegations and videos because they needed to force a Democrat out of the race.

00:03:31.340 Strangely, he was the front runner.

00:03:33.740 But now prediction markets say Tom Steyer is going to step in to second place.

00:03:38.200 And this means the runoff will be Democrat and Republican.

00:03:41.820 Democrats likely going to win.

00:03:43.920 But let's go through what's going on.

00:03:45.160 We've got some video to show you.

00:03:46.120 None of it is too extreme.

00:03:48.060 I mean, it's a video of him with a lady on a bed.

00:03:50.540 They're not doing anything egregious.

00:03:52.580 But I'm going to break down for you these allegations.

00:03:54.760 And I can't believe I'm saying this.

00:03:57.000 I'm going to have to at least a little bit defend Eric Swalwell.

00:04:01.520 Obviously, it's apparent he was cheating on his wife.

00:04:04.780 I mean, assuming these videos are true.

00:04:06.340 not a good guy, not an honorable guy, live by the sword, as I say. But again,

00:04:14.580 this leak in these claims, I do think when you when you read them, I'm sorry, I'm I wouldn't be

00:04:21.640 surprised if they were false allegations for political purposes. But hear me out. I know a

00:04:26.580 lot of Republicans immediately want to just say, no, no, Swalwell is a bad guy. Get him out of

00:04:29.820 Congress. Yes. But if Swalwell stayed in the race, the Republicans would have won. So this whole

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00:05:28.540 Let's jump into the news.

00:05:29.400 we've got this from NPR. Of course, the first component of the story, Eric Swalwell has

00:05:33.600 suspended his bid for California governor. They say Swalwell is suspending his campaign following

00:05:39.640 allegations of sexual assault and misconduct and rape, like repeated rape. Swalwell says the

00:05:46.240 allegations from at least four women are false, but he announced Sunday that he would take on

00:05:50.680 that fight outside his campaign. Quote, I am suspending my campaign for governor to my family,

00:05:56.020 staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in the past.

00:06:00.460 I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made, but that's my fight,

00:06:04.940 not a campaign's. Swalwell, who has been gaining a series of influential endorsements,

00:06:09.500 was seen as a possible frontrunner. Not only has he lost every endorsement,

00:06:14.580 apparently he got kicked out of the house he was staying in. I think I got some right here.

00:06:17.940 Look at this. Billionaire kicks Eric Swalwell out of his mansion and wants $1 million back

00:06:25.320 after heinous sex allegations. Yikes. It's not going too well for our buddy over here,

00:06:32.340 Eric Swalwell. He posted to my friends, family and staff. We already did see this one. 10.8

00:06:39.120 million views on X. And here's one of the videos. Now, there are two videos. One shows him kissing

00:06:45.240 the woman. I'm not going to play that one. I know it's not particularly bad, but this one just has

00:06:49.760 him on the bed with the woman. Jack Posobiec tweets, I have just obtained a new video of what

00:06:55.900 appears to be Congressman Eric Swalwell taken moments after the first video that has been

00:07:00.160 circulating today. I have also received a digital forensics report attesting to the veracity of both

00:07:05.200 it and the initial video. And this just shows him with the woman. They're not really doing anything

00:07:12.960 and he just pulls her back. She laughs. That's about it. There's another guy there. A lot of

00:07:17.900 people are pointing out that Swalwell has small feet relative to this other guy's big feet, which

00:07:21.360 sure, I guess, whatever. Well, here's the article on the allegations from the San Francisco Standard

00:07:27.760 for which I am going to say, I don't know if I believe it. I mean, listen, extraordinary claims

00:07:34.500 require extraordinary evidence. And if you have a woman saying that she went home with Swalwell

00:07:40.720 and woke up feeling like something had occurred, you know, let me let me read the story for you,

00:07:48.460 and then I'll give you my thoughts on the matter. The allegations have potential to sink the East

00:07:52.540 Bay congressman's gubernatorial campaign. See, this story was from a few days ago, and it already

00:07:57.120 did. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for governor, has been publicly accused

00:08:03.200 of assault, sexual assault, following weeks of rumors about misconduct. The allegations have

00:08:08.120 potential to sink his gubernatorial campaign, which we know they did. So here we go. A former

00:08:13.120 staffer alleges that he pressed himself on her sexually while she worked for him and had sex

00:08:17.540 with her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent. The woman told the paper that Swalwell

00:08:22.480 began pursuing her after she was hired at 21 to work in his office in East Bay. Swalwell,

00:08:28.800 who was married and has three children, sent photos of his genitals to the younger staffer 0.86

00:08:32.480 on Snapchat and pursued her sexually. In September of 2019, the woman said she woke up naked in

00:08:41.920 Swalwell's hotel room after a dinner out with friends and felt the physical effects of intercourse.

00:08:47.440 She later left his office but continued to work in politics. In April of 2024, the accuser attended

00:08:52.760 an awards ceremony in New York where Swalwell was being honored. After meeting up with him,

00:08:57.580 she got drinks with him and ended up intoxicated in his hotel room where he forcibly had sex with 0.62

00:09:02.040 she claims. The Chronicle corroborated her claims with medical records, and by speaking with friends

00:09:07.200 she had confided in and a former boyfriend. In response to the claims, Swalwell's attorney sent

00:09:11.680 a cease and desist letter to the counsel of the accuser and raised the possibility of a defamation

00:09:16.500 suit. Guys, I'm sorry. In this instance, considering, let me pull up this website here.

00:09:23.780 It's called California Top Two Twins, Paul Mitchell's primary simulator. Look, I'm going

00:09:30.640 to click. Here's what you can see. Steve Hilton is a high probability of making the top two.

00:09:37.000 Swalwell was in second place. That Chad Bianco. Now, for the most part, it has been for some time

00:09:44.280 speculated that Bianco and Hilton would be the two front runners, meaning California is getting

00:09:48.260 the governor no matter what this primary system, right? Well, many people have been begging a

00:09:53.800 Democrat to drop out. If one Democrat drops out and those votes go to another Democrat,

00:09:58.940 then you're going to get Democrat versus Republican. As for this probability, it looked

00:10:04.680 like Swalwell was going to be one of two Democrats, but predictions still had it largely that it was

00:10:09.360 going to be a Republican. Swalwell was doing better and better. Based on that, I'd be more

00:10:14.240 inclined to believe that there is political machinations afoot. You see, this woman could 1.00

00:10:20.740 have accused Swalwell at any point, but only now in the midst of political season does this story

00:10:26.140 come out. Let's also take a look at the claims. Guys, I'm not trying to defend Swole. I don't

00:10:30.800 like the guy. I think he's a bad guy. But apparently she gets drunk and goes to his

00:10:36.160 hotel room and then wakes up feeling the effects of intercourse. OK, I mean, maybe that's possible

00:10:41.800 that Swalwell had his way with a drunken lady. I'm wondering if she is. Listen, if you're choosing 1.00

00:10:48.780 to get drunk and then choosing to go to like you make these choices, you can't be like, but she

00:10:52.280 was drunk, she has no responsibility. Sure, then every DUI would be thrown out, right?

00:10:56.200 Sounds to me like Swalwell and this lady had a bunch of drinks, went up and if you know what I

00:11:00.440 mean. So then five years later, she meets up with him again, gets drunk, goes to his hotel room and

00:11:07.440 then says, oh no, I can't believe this happened. Guys, it sounds to me like she's just a woman 0.99

00:11:12.040 banging Eric Swalwell. But now that it's politically advantageous, she comes out and says, 1.00

00:11:17.260 oh no oh heavens me this was forced on me twice you came back like I'm sorry it's certainly 0.84

00:11:26.180 possible and there are instances where women can get abused can't get raped and then go back to

00:11:30.880 the guy and they get raped again thinking it won't happen but I I'm just I'm sorry I I'm gonna have

00:11:37.000 to say if you don't have any strong evidence of this you can't just claim that two times you got

00:11:41.460 drunk with Swalwell went to his hotel room and had sex but didn't want to either time the first time

00:11:47.080 we're like, OK, tell me what happened. Did Swalwell do this? The second time, it's like, 0.71

00:11:52.020 well, you claimed it happened once before. Why would you go back to his room again? I just I'm

00:11:56.480 not playing stupid games, guys. Don't get me wrong. Swalwell's not a good dude. You know what 0.99

00:12:02.100 I mean? But my point is just that this reeks of political machinations. Quote, these allegations

00:12:08.880 are false and come on the eve of an election against the front runner for governor. For nearly

00:12:12.840 20 years, I have served the public as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women.

00:12:17.080 I will defend myself with the facts and and where necessary, bring legal action.

00:12:21.280 My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies.

00:12:27.520 The Chronicle story was followed by a report from CNN where four women described sexual misconduct by Swalwell,

00:12:33.640 including multiple cases where he unsolicited nude photos and had sex with women who were heavily intoxicated.

00:12:39.540 Swalwell denied the accusations.

00:12:41.080 I also want to stress women choosing to get drunk, choosing in that inebriated state to go and be with a guy is not a crime the guy has committed.

00:12:50.840 You don't get me wrong. 0.61

00:12:52.240 If the woman is passed out, yes, right. 0.63

00:12:55.920 If you have a guy and a girl, like a chick and a bro, and they're both drunk and they both hook up, there's no crimes. 1.00

00:13:02.480 A woman can't come out later and be like, but I was drunk. 1.00

00:13:05.320 Too effing bad. 1.00

00:13:06.380 You chose to get drunk and you did all of these things.

00:13:09.640 Now, I do think there's a fair point in a guy intentionally does not get drunk to be of sound

00:13:15.440 mind to manipulate the woman and getting her drunk. Maybe then you have some kind of argument

00:13:19.120 using intoxication as a mean, a means to then hook up with a chick. But there's a thin line

00:13:25.860 here, man. Swalwell goes to a bar with a lady, gets her some drinks. She gets drunk. He says,

00:13:30.580 you want to go back to my place? She says, yes. They hook up and she goes, now that I'm sober,

00:13:34.140 I regret this. Well, I'm sorry, man. Again, are we going to throw every single DUI a woman gets

00:13:40.140 because it's not her fault she was drunk? I'm not playing these stupid games. Anyway, they say in 1.00

00:13:45.560 the wake of the allegations, Politico reported that several top campaign staffers have resigned,

00:13:49.660 including senior advisor Courtney Pugh, who served as a top liaison to organized labor groups

00:13:54.560 that have been major backers of Swalwell. Rep. Jimmy Gomez has resigned as co-chair of Swalwell's

00:14:00.060 campaign and called on him to leave the race. My involvement in any campaign begins and ends

00:14:05.920 with trust. I cannot in good conscience remain in any role with this campaign. I'm stepping down

00:14:11.180 from it effective immediately. Speaker Emerita, Nancy Speaker Emerita, thought it was a name for

00:14:17.740 a second, should learn my words. Nancy Pelosi has called for Swole to withdraw from the race,

00:14:23.280 joining a growing chorus of major politicians asking for him to drop out. As we continue to

00:14:29.100 learn more. Delegations from multiple sources are deeply troubling. Oh boy, here's where it gets

00:14:35.400 real fun. So here's the Calci prediction market for the California governor's race. And we can

00:14:43.640 see that since Swalwell's no longer on here, take a look at this. Tom Steyer spikes. On April 7th,

00:14:51.820 Tom Steyer jumped up to 31%.

00:14:54.160 I think someone knew something.

00:14:57.760 And then Matt Mahan, for some reason, on April 10th, when the story breaks, Matt Mahan becomes

00:15:03.940 the frontrunner on Kalshi, and then immediately drops off and is now in the worst position

00:15:09.600 underneath Katie Porter.

00:15:11.900 What? 1.00

00:15:13.780 Okay.

00:15:15.020 There's even speculation now that Eric Swalwell will be out as a member of the House very

00:15:21.320 soon.

00:15:22.460 We've got this before May 1st, 57 percent.

00:15:26.320 And before November 3rd, 82 percent in the prediction markets.

00:15:30.700 Guys, I'm going to say this.

00:15:31.780 I'm going to say this.

00:15:32.600 Someone knows something.

00:15:35.260 I think Eric Swalwell probably told some people like, I'm going to get out of here.

00:15:40.400 The New York intelligence says Swalwell implosion creates whole new race for California governor.

00:15:46.360 And there it is, my friends.

00:15:48.020 Let's click here to see who's making the top two.

00:15:50.940 Swalwell's still a factor because it's just running the polls.

00:15:53.720 But this is the important point. 0.69

00:15:55.760 It's a new race, baby.

00:15:57.840 Swalwell was considered to be a frontrunner,

00:16:00.660 but there were concerns Bianca would beat him out.

00:16:03.780 Now that Swalwell is gone, it's Tom Steyer.

00:16:08.080 Indeed, Steyer's at 56.4% to win.

00:16:14.200 This is getting interesting.

00:16:16.020 Now, of course, Katie Porter, who was also in second place in the prediction market,

00:16:19.380 it says, the allegations against Congressman Suoba are horrifying. I'm thinking of the

00:16:24.520 courageous women who have come forward to share their stories. We believe you and we stand with

00:16:28.780 you. To which Julie Grace says the community note on this one is a doozy, which reads Katie

00:16:35.280 Porter is an alleged domestic abuser who poured scalding potatoes on her ex-husband's head.

00:16:40.440 She's also been seen on camera verbally berating staff for minor slights and has been described

00:16:45.380 as abusive herself. Wasn't Katie Porter the lady who ate with a comb? Was that her? Let's see,

00:16:53.320 based on this, who was the Democrat who was eating with a comb? Katie Porter, I don't know,

00:16:58.300 maybe it wasn't Katie Porter. Katie Porter tells Stafford to get the F out of my shot. I love this. 0.99

00:17:03.460 Do we have the video on this one? Come on, tell me you have the video. Do you link it at least?

00:17:07.840 they say the video surfaces uh where is it footage politico get the f out of oh come on

00:17:16.320 let me let me let me pull it up on x so we can make sure we have this this is uh katie porter 1.00

00:17:22.740 was trying to film something katie porter get the f and then a staffer walks in and she just

00:17:30.580 loses her mind here here you go this is a video uh from october 8th listen to this

00:17:36.080 and I never have to go to the gas station. That's awesome. And $632 is real money.

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00:18:18.080 here we go other problems and this morning it's dying so you can see the staff are walking

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00:18:25.300 get out of my fucking shot i wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect it's not that it's 0.72

00:18:32.400 electric vehicles it's that if we don't need the commitments under the paris climate accord 0.99

00:18:37.000 okay it does okay you also were in my shot before that stay out of my shot okay i mean i wonder what

00:18:46.180 that beeping was early to air pollution and other problems and the state could lose 0.99

00:18:51.840 Get out of my fucking shot. 1.00

00:18:55.880 Oh, maybe it was just her name. 1.00

00:18:57.100 It was Klobuchar who ate with a comb. 0.82

00:18:58.860 My bad.

00:18:59.560 Sorry, Katie Porter. 1.00

00:19:00.580 It was the other middle-aged Karen-like woman who I confused you with.

00:19:05.200 Yeah, Klobuchar ate her salad with a comb, reports Zach. 0.56

00:19:11.360 I'm so bored of politics.

00:19:12.780 At least we have something like this, I guess.

00:19:17.300 At least, right?

00:19:19.980 I guess.

00:19:21.840 Okay. Whatever. Well, here we are, my friends. This is Katie Porter screaming at a staffer and

00:19:30.400 she's apparently in the second. She's in second to win in this governor's race. Now, Swalwell 1.00

00:19:37.480 apparently got kicked out of this mansion. We highlighted this earlier. Lefty billionaire

00:19:41.000 Stephen Klubeck dramatically cut ties with Swalwell and revealed he has kicked him out of

00:19:45.060 his mansion hours before the congressman dropped his run for California governor.

00:19:49.060 I don't want to say this, guys, but I just hate Democrat elites. 0.98

00:19:53.740 I hate them so much. 1.00

00:19:57.000 They are all a bunch of fake robot, self-interested people. 0.99

00:20:01.400 Are you friends with Eric Swalwell? 0.68

00:20:03.260 Okay, well, stand by your friends.

00:20:06.480 You want to hook this guy up.

00:20:07.860 You want to bring him into your inner circle.

00:20:09.360 Then you're going to throw him out, pissed off because he might besmirch your good name.

00:20:13.600 You know, on Friday, I made this video talking about my friends and betrayers and the disloyal

00:20:21.360 and things like this. And I'll say what I said then and I'll say it again. I have friends and

00:20:26.500 people have told me not to have certain individuals on my show anymore. Why are you

00:20:31.560 inviting this person or that person? I said, they're my friends. Yeah, that's it. Screw off.

00:20:36.280 I may disagree with them, but there's a lot more to this world than, I don't know, looking good on the internet for strangers. 0.65

00:20:46.080 I really, really just don't care about that.

00:20:49.900 So there have been a handful of people who have certainly drawn the ire of the public.

00:20:55.800 And people have said, this person's a bad person.

00:20:58.040 You shouldn't be friends with them.

00:20:58.980 And I'm like, that's never going to happen.

00:21:01.120 Now, I'll put it like this.

00:21:02.540 If there's somebody I know who's a friend and they say something abhorrent, well, I think the

00:21:07.140 effective thing is to stay friends and bring them in and say, hey, hey, look, like you can't be

00:21:11.760 saying these things. You know what I mean? And there's a handful of people that we've hosted.

00:21:15.600 I'm not going to do that. Now, this is what's funny. This guy, Stephen Klubak, cuts ties with

00:21:19.740 Eric Swalwell. Were you friends with him from the get go? And then he's accused of this wrongdoing.

00:21:25.560 Listen, I there's a line, of course. You know, if I knew somebody and they were a friend of mine,

00:21:32.100 they did something truly evil or whatever, then fine. If I had a friend who was accused of these

00:21:37.700 things and someone asked me to cut ties with them, I'd say, not interested. Listen, there's a court

00:21:42.880 of law. You come to me and prove that my friend did something wrong and we can consider what that

00:21:49.280 means. However, this is the reason why I say I hate these people is that this guy's friends

00:21:54.700 with Swalwell for no reason other than he wants power. That's it. And now that Swalwell is a

00:21:59.960 is a risk to him and that he can't get anything from him. He's like, away with you, Swalwell.

00:22:05.440 You are now persona non grata. I'm just not interested in living in a world where people

00:22:10.620 do this kind of stuff, right? Well, we've got this from Mediaite. CNN legal expert warns

00:22:16.480 prosecutors to avoid landmine in Swalwell sexual assault case. All right, breaking overnight,

00:22:23.100 California Democrat Eric Swalwell dropped his bid for governor after four women accused him of

00:22:29.040 sexual misconduct, including one former staffer who says Swalwell sexually assaulted her after

00:22:34.220 a night of heavy drinking. In a video message, the congressman acknowledged making, quote,

00:22:38.400 mistakes in judgments, but denied the sexual assault allegations. The Manhattan District

00:22:43.620 Attorney's Office said it is investigating after, as the incident was said to have happened in New

00:22:50.020 York City. With us now, CNN Senior Legal Analyst, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern

00:22:54.340 District for New York, Ellie Honey. Counselor, good to see you this morning. Talk to me about

00:22:58.620 the Manhattan DA's move here. What will they be investigating? How will it work? Why'd they jump

00:23:04.360 in? So, John, a case like this is likely to come down to the single issue of consent. Was this

00:23:11.920 sexual contact consensual or non-consensual? Now, the first thing prosecutors will do naturally

00:23:16.680 is speak to the complainant, the woman, get her full statement, get as much detail as they can.

00:23:22.100 Prosecutors also will likely reach out to the accused. Eric Swalwell here, you have to go

00:23:26.900 through his defense lawyer. He'll have the opportunity to speak to prosecutors, although,

00:23:31.520 of course, he does not have to do that. Then you're in the position of looking for what we

00:23:35.980 call corroboration. You want to look at all the other evidence. So, for example,

00:23:39.980 what were this woman's statements to others at or around the time? According to the reporting,

00:23:44.980 there is evidence that this woman told friends and family members that she had had this contact

00:23:49.660 with Representative Swalwell and that it was non-consensual. You want to look at the conversations

00:23:54.160 at and after the fact between the complainant and the accused. You want to look and see if

00:23:58.620 there's any medical records. The reporting here is that the woman had pregnancy and STD testing.

00:24:04.800 So that's something short of a full medical workup. And then, John, the key thing to keep

00:24:08.860 in mind is for prosecutors, the question is not who is more believable or which side is more

00:24:14.540 likely. Prosecutors, remember, have to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. So that's

00:24:19.080 a very high burden that prosecutors will bear. And again, we said there were four women who

00:24:23.720 came forward, including this one here in New York City. What will happen with other potential

00:24:30.520 individuals? Yeah, so the allegedly criminal conduct that the DA is investigating relates

00:24:38.360 to one of the four women, but prosecutors likely will want to speak to the other three women who

00:24:44.080 had other sorts of unwanted advances, photos and texts and exposure from Eric Swalwell. Now,

00:24:49.920 Prosecutors have to be careful here, though, because you might be able to offer that evidence if this case ever went to trial as a prosecutor by saying, well, it establishes a pattern.

00:24:59.300 However, judges and prosecutors can get in trouble if you bring in too much of this, what we call other bad acts evidence.

00:25:06.440 For example, Harvey Weinstein had one of his convictions thrown out because prosecutors introduced and judges admitted too much of that other bad acts evidence.

00:25:15.680 So I think if you're a prosecutor, you do want to speak to these three other women.

00:25:19.240 But I think you want to be careful with how you use that evidence.

00:25:22.780 So the important factor and the reason I bring this up is that Swalwell's facing prison.

00:25:28.440 Yeah, prison.

00:25:29.480 It's kind of funny.

00:25:30.520 He could have just dropped out of the race and disappeared and he'd be a rich guy.

00:25:37.200 And that's it.

00:25:38.520 But he wanted to be the governor of California.

00:25:40.880 Now he may be a convicted inmate in a New York prison.

00:25:44.020 It was Danton who said, oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with

00:25:50.840 the government of men.

00:25:52.780 Yeah, because did they cut Danton's head off?

00:25:56.240 Danton, he was executed, right? 0.76

00:25:58.680 Because the French basically executed everybody.

00:26:01.120 He was guillotined April 5th, 1794 in Paris at the Place de Révolucion, along with Camille

00:26:09.020 de Moulin and others executed during the reign of terror after opposing Robespierre. He famously

00:26:15.340 requested his head be shown to the people saying, it is worth the trouble. Well, I suppose, you know,

00:26:21.280 he said that. Danton's death. Remarkable. Robespierre died too, because this is how these

00:26:29.120 things often play out. So there you have it, my friend. Eric Swalwell. Well, you know, he could

00:26:35.640 have disappeared, but maybe prison will help sort things out. Now, the funny thing is I'm wondering

00:26:41.180 like, why was Matt Mahan like the, who? So San Jose Spotlight asks if Matt Mahan's campaign for

00:26:51.500 California governor is losing steam. Who? His probability of winning on the predictions is

00:27:00.520 one of his top two for California. He doesn't even register a single percent. Yet for some

00:27:06.760 reason, on Kalshi, they had him as the front runner at 53.1 to 52.4. Well, someone dumped a

00:27:16.060 bunch of money into him, I guess, and then lost all that money, I guess, because someone must

00:27:20.820 have immediately just sold it. I don't know even how this makes sense, how he spiked so high in

00:27:26.580 the probability market. Right now, Tom Steyer is the front runner. Katie Porter's in second with

00:27:30.720 17%. Steyer's likely going to be the guy to win. And this is what you get, my friends. You get a

00:27:35.980 Klobuchar eating herself with a comb. Swalwell's being cast out to the wolves. His career is 0.72

00:27:42.520 destroyed. Swalwell's not a good guy. He's famously was banging a Chinese spy, Fang Fang,

00:27:49.940 they say, they say in the media. And he also farted on TV. I'm surprised that wasn't bad

00:27:56.220 Remember when that dude went, and then he was like, his career is over. Swalwell fart. 0.57

00:28:04.340 I actually have to play this for you. It has to be played. This is the important context 1.00

00:28:10.200 from 2019 of Eric Swalwell. The evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer

00:28:17.800 dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. And the complaint that I've heard

00:28:22.340 from the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the

00:28:27.160 Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. And the complaint that I've heard from the evidence.

00:28:31.860 OK, now they deny this. And let me pull this one up. Swalwell fart mug desk. This is what they

00:28:38.600 what they claimed. Congressman denies. So here's the story, right? Congressman denies farting

00:28:47.300 loudly on TV interview. Usually MSNBC sticks to the news and politics. But during this interview,

00:28:52.240 He farted. He said so far, this evidence is uncontroverted. The president is taxed by dollars

00:28:56.000 between election. He seems to pause and release his gas. And then everyone kind of laughed.

00:29:03.920 Meanwhile, Hardball, the show he was appearing on, subtly joked about tweeting about a meme

00:29:07.780 with people pointing at each other. They said, sorry, that is a point to the conspiracy theorists.

00:29:13.300 It was the Hardball mug scraping across the desk. Get yours today. I'm sorry, I just I don't believe

00:29:20.620 it because he pauses and tenses up and bounces. Watch. It's uncontradicted that the president

00:29:24.700 used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. And the complaint. 0.58

00:29:29.800 Now, imagine there was no mug sound there. Remove this under the mug. He says the president used

00:29:35.500 campaign dollars to help him cheat an election. Why pause there? Why? Why? What's that? What's

00:29:43.540 that all about? No, I'm going to be honest, you guys. Dude farted on TV and, you know,

00:29:49.100 he was a good little Democrat for a while. I love this conspiracy theory. With this video going

00:29:55.240 viral of Swalwell with what people say is a lady of the night, and maybe that lady isn't. So it's

00:30:01.640 like everybody's accusing her of being a sex worker. And it's like, what if she's not? You

00:30:04.460 know, what if she's just like a woman who's hanging out with him, I guess? I don't know.

00:30:09.020 The conspiracy theory is this is a prerequisite for working in the political establishment.

00:30:13.400 You must have some kind of leverage that they can hold over you.

00:30:17.760 It harkens to the Epstein conspiracies where powerful elites allegedly were doing bad things,

00:30:23.060 and there's videos of it.

00:30:24.920 Some people say this is it.

00:30:26.620 Swalwell wasn't intentionally cheating on his wife.

00:30:29.240 There's a reason why this is being filmed.

00:30:30.900 The conspiracy theory is that they make you film this if you want to be in politics.

00:30:35.680 That way they can release it to destroy you if you ever try to break ranks.

00:30:39.640 I wonder, did Swalwell think if that's true, he could oppose the machine, even if it's not true,

00:30:47.260 even if it's just Swalwell paying hookers and there's no deeper conspiracy with the machine

00:30:53.680 wanting Democrats to drop out to stop a Republican from winning? Did Swalwell think he was the

00:31:00.400 front runner? Maybe. It isn't that the Democrats as a machine tried to stop him, but that one of

00:31:06.940 these other Democrats did? What if some other Democrat thought, if I remove Eric Swalwell from

00:31:13.560 the chessboard, I advance? I'll tell you one thing. Zero probability a Republican did this.

00:31:20.160 Well, any real Republican that wanted to win, you could argue there's a fake Republican, but

00:31:24.360 the Republicans that are in the front don't want a Democrat to advance. Only a Democrat would want

00:31:31.360 this. Indeed, my friends, only a Democrat. And it is these Democrat female staffers that are

00:31:38.160 accusing him because these people are evil. They are disloyal betrayers. But you know what? I said 1.00

00:31:43.820 it before. I'll say it again. Eric, live by the sword, as they say. Or one way to put it is you

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - April 13, 2026

Democrats BETRAY Eric Swalwell With SEX SCANDAL To STEAL CA Governor Race

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