The Culture War - Tim Pool - August 20, 2026


FBI RAIDS Democrats House, Swalwell IS IN TROUBLE


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00:00:47.200 It's not just that Swalwell's devices were seized.
00:00:51.360 The FBI actually raided his home.
00:00:53.280 This is a prominent former Democrat, well, he's still a Democrat, but a former representative, very anti-Trump, who repeatedly said no one is above the law.
00:01:03.220 And now he is facing the brunt of a sexual misconduct allegation, allegations.
00:01:09.360 Now, we initially learned this morning that the feds had come, stopped him at an airport and took his devices.
00:01:14.780 But now we're learning they actually went to his home.
00:01:18.700 This is reportedly much, much more serious.
00:01:21.700 Now, I'm going to stress this. When Trump was charged, when he was arrested, when he was accused
00:01:26.120 of fraud, all of these things, the liberals came out and they said no one's above the law,
00:01:30.020 including Swalwell over and over and over again. Now that we have the DOJ going after Democrats
00:01:34.660 for many different reasons, we're hearing it's all fake. This is the nature of politics in this
00:01:39.780 country and take it for whatever you think it to mean. But if you cannot enforce the law against
00:01:45.200 the left or the right without either side accusing each other of malfeasance, you do not have a
00:01:51.220 functioning legal system. You have a political system and it's being used against its enemies.
00:01:56.960 End of story. Don't get me wrong. I have my view on these things. I think that the charges against
00:02:02.220 Trump were trumped up and largely false. The left is going to argue otherwise, and I think they're
00:02:07.060 wrong to do so. Of all the charges we've seen targeting Democrats, I think this one may be the
00:02:12.000 only actual one with legs. Again, I'll stress this. The mortgage fraud stuff against many of
00:02:17.500 these prominent Democrats seems to be legit, but kind of like I'm going to roll my eyes.
00:02:22.080 Really? I mean, yeah, you can't be the AG of New York and then claim your primary residence is in
00:02:27.540 Virginia trying to get better interest rates. Yeah, not you can't do that. But it is a bit of
00:02:33.800 a stretch, although I say if we step back and look at all of it, it all is. Trump didn't commit
00:02:39.240 civil fraud. We know that, too. So if you have a legitimate claim now with Swalwell, I'm basically
00:02:45.060 caveating all this to say, guys, ignore the politics for the moment. I actually think
00:02:50.920 Swalwell's probably guilty of a lot of this stuff. I mean, the stories that we've heard,
00:02:54.720 the things he's been accused of, this one seems to have actual merit to it. So let's jump in,
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00:04:23.800 Here's a story from CNN Politics.
00:04:25.620 Well, apparently it's not the story from CNN Politics.
00:04:28.240 Here's a story from the Daily Mail.
00:04:29.680 FBI agents confront Swalwell at San Francisco Airport and seize his electronics as part
00:04:36.020 of a sexual misconduct allegation investigation. They say FBI agents confronted Swalwell with a
00:04:42.980 search warrant when he landed at San Francisco Airport Saturday and seized the former congressman's
00:04:47.260 electronic devices, including his cell phone, as part of a federal criminal investigation into
00:04:51.980 allegations of sexual misconduct. Now, I do want to make sure that we have the here we go. We have
00:04:58.440 the New York Times, the New York Times reporting this FBI agents search Eric Swalwell's home
00:05:05.160 as part of federal inquiry.
00:05:08.120 They say the agents armed with a warrant
00:05:09.440 stopped Swalwell at the SF airport,
00:05:11.860 laid claim to his devices the next day,
00:05:14.140 searched his home in Washington.
00:05:16.960 Swalwell spent more than a decade in the House
00:05:18.640 representing two districts in California,
00:05:20.440 resigned from Congress in April after the news
00:05:22.260 reported on allegations from several women,
00:05:24.820 including a former member of his staff.
00:05:26.660 The FBI did not immediately respond
00:05:29.080 to a message seeking comment.
00:05:30.880 Swalwell also did not respond to messages seeking comment.
00:05:33.880 The search in his home and the seizure of his communication devices reported earlier on Thursday by CNN.
00:05:39.500 Mr. Swalwell is also facing investigations and investigation based on accounts from his accusers in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and state investigators in L.A.
00:05:48.960 Most sex crimes are prosecuted by state and local authorities.
00:05:51.580 The federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes as a means to scrutinize Swalwell's conduct with his accusers.
00:05:59.020 The person familiar with the case said, I just want to give a shout out to Swalwell.
00:06:01.940 no one is above the law. During his time in Congress, Swalwell was a vocal critic of Trump.
00:06:08.160 Earlier this week, the White House released previously secret documents arising from an
00:06:12.520 earlier and unrelated investigation into Swalwell. That inquiry focused on his relationship with a
00:06:17.500 woman named Christine Fang. They called her Fang Fang. It's Chinese. It's not Fang. It's Fang.
00:06:24.220 Who believed who who was believed by counterintelligence officials to be a Chinese
00:06:28.300 spy. In an article in the San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle in April, the former staff
00:06:34.500 member for Swalwell claimed that he had sexually assaulted her in a New York hotel room after an
00:06:38.880 event in 2024. She recounted how she had been too intoxicated to consent to the encounter and that
00:06:44.260 Swalwell had ignored her when she had tried to refuse. Three other women spoke separately with
00:06:49.020 CNN accusing Swalwell of various kinds of sexual misconduct, including sending them unsolicited
00:06:53.700 explicit messages and nude photos. Mr. Swalwell denied the allegations, telling both news outlets
00:06:59.580 that the accusations had come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor.
00:07:04.480 For nearly 20 years, I have served the public as a prosecutor and a congressman
00:07:08.620 and I've always protected women, he said in a statement at the time.
00:07:12.100 Well, I got questions. I got questions for you guys. You can comment below. This is not going
00:07:17.100 to be a particularly long segment. I guess it's a swamp of a day, my friends, but we will be back
00:07:20.780 tonight, 8 p.m. for Tim Castire. But the questions are, how much of this is lived by the sword?
00:07:26.600 Did Swalwell actually do anything wrong, or is it just that politics has become so mafioso,
00:07:31.220 this is what you get? Guys, I don't believe half the stuff we see anymore. I don't believe
00:07:38.620 half the stuff we see. If you want to remove adversaries in politics, it has become evil.
00:07:45.820 Now, don't get me wrong. It's been this way forever to a certain degree. But we do not have a shared moral framework anymore in this country. Thus, if Swalwell did not actually do anything or if his only the only real problem is that he and his lady got drunk and hooked up, could this be the weaponization against Swalwell?
00:08:03.780 Well, I can speak for many people when I can tell you the response is going to be.
00:08:10.340 So what? Swalwell went after Republicans on all of these these these claims, posting on over and over again, no one is above the law.
00:08:19.660 So live by the sword, as it were. I'm curious, though. I'm curious what they're going to find from his devices.
00:08:26.400 I believe a lot of what we're seeing now politically between Democrats and Republicans is just an escalation of power politics.
00:08:32.820 I don't think that Eric Swalwell, whether he's guilty or not of these allegations, would have
00:08:38.300 faced any real accountability if we had the unified deep state. You know, let me say it like
00:08:44.860 this. How many people associated with Epstein have been criminally charged? Indeed. But you see,
00:08:50.940 the thing is with Swalwell, well, now we're playing politics. You've got a Republican party.
00:08:57.720 You've got a Trump administration that says enough. It's tit for tat, baby. They accused Trump of fraud, of sexual abuse, 34 felonies, and it was all trumped up. So here we go. I suppose following this, the question is, what is the escalation that we see? And what happens if Trump loses? Because if Trump loses the midterms, they're going to jam him up. But if the Republicans lose in 2028 and the executive powers fall to Democrats, you think they're going to sit idly by?
00:09:27.420 as this stuff happens. Now, where I suppose it don't matter, I'll say like this, Swalwell,
00:09:33.100 Vindman, Resistance 1.0 libs, they're gone. What we're going to see is the DSA. And the DSA,
00:09:40.520 if they win power, which maybe, they ain't going to play the same kind of games that the old school
00:09:45.100 Democrats are playing. They're going to go after old school Democrats and the Republicans,
00:09:49.280 same as anybody else. If the DSA somehow gets executive power or the Democrats that win in
00:09:55.520 28 are beholden. Maybe it's AOC. You think they're going to sit back and let the old school
00:10:00.220 Democrats run amok? No way. No way. No way. No way. The insurgent DSA is going to go after
00:10:08.000 Republican and Democrat alike. So you see the Swalwell story now, my friends. But I'll tell
00:10:14.460 you this. It definitely does not end here. Where's the off ramp? That's the question.
00:10:21.420 That's the fear, I suppose. Is this sort of the political version of caning someone in the Senate?
00:10:30.560 When does it end? At a certain point, there will be an attempt made on someone in politics who
00:10:36.940 says no. You know, I just watched this video that I've seen clips from it, but it's gone
00:10:41.900 massively viral. A guy was falsely arrested on DUI. You may have seen it out of like Grayson City
00:10:46.700 or something like that. And you watch this kind of stuff and you're just thinking like
00:10:50.380 people with power will do whatever they want. That's it. This cop on a power trip falsely
00:10:56.040 arrested a guy. And then what happens? The cop transfers. No, no penalties, no penalties.
00:11:01.160 I thought about this. These cops are falsely arresting this innocent guy.
00:11:06.660 And they physically attacked him, slammed him into the truck, just trying to get him to do
00:11:11.480 something. I watched another video where a cop, he suplexes a guy. And when the guy gets up,
00:11:17.180 the cop just shoots him in the back, kills him. I'm not saying all cops are bad. I'm saying that
00:11:21.720 they're evil people with power. And in the instance of that guy with the fake DUI, they wanted him to
00:11:27.580 fight. They wanted to put him in fear for his life that they were doing something illegal so
00:11:32.000 they could justifiably kill or harm him. One of the cops pulled out his taser, ready to use it.
00:11:35.960 And the cop, the guy who was being arrested, never once did anything aggressive. They just
00:11:40.680 wanted to hurt somebody. You may support police, but I'm warning you right now. There are people
00:11:47.580 out there that are demons, they're evil, they are possessed, whatever it may be.
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