KING: New tonight, NCS with unique reporting about Congressman Eric Swalwell. The California Democrat has ascended in the governor’s race there, and he’s confronted latest rumors on social media about sexual misconduct that he has denied.
NCS’s Pamela Brown and her group have spoken with 4 accusers, together with a former staffer who went on digital camera to share her story. Pam, inform us what our investigative group have realized.
PAMELA BROWN: Well, John, we’ve spoken with 4 girls who’ve varied sorts of sexual misconduct claims in opposition to Congressman Swalwell, starting from inappropriate messages and photos to undesirable kissing and touching, and in one case, rape, from a lady we spoke to on digital camera in shadow to guard her identification on account of concern {of professional} retaliation.
She’s a former Swalwell staffer and she or he says it started when she was 21 years outdated. There have been two very severe sexual assault allegations she made, one in 2019 as a staffer, and the opposite from 2024 when she had left his workplace.
She additionally described inappropriate messages and nude photographs with the congressman utilizing Snapchat with disappearing messages.
Now, after the primary incident the place she mentioned she awoke in his lodge room as a staffer bare after an evening of heavy ingesting, she advised us about what she says occurred a number of years later in 2024 after she had left his workplace. I need to warn you, what you might be about to listen to is graphic and disturbing.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I made a decision to ask him to fulfill me for a drink. And I did this as a result of I used to be to this point faraway from what had occurred in 2019. I felt protected as a result of I used to be established. I had a companion. I felt safer that I might have a strictly skilled relationship with this particular person.
After that bar closed, we went to a different, I went to the lavatory, and I don’t keep in mind something after that.
BROWN: You don’t keep in mind something?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I keep in mind the following day, I can see flashes of that night of him on prime of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was much more aggressive. It was aggressive.
BROWN: Did you say no?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. I mentioned no. I mentioned I — in my flash that I can recall, I used to be pushing him off of me saying no.
BROWN: And what did he do?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He didn’t cease.
BROWN: He didn’t cease? And you awoke the following morning?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I awoke the following morning bare, alone in his lodge room. I, for a second, didn’t even know I used to be in his lodge room. That’s how intoxicated I used to be. And I referred to as my mother, the one particular person I might assume that might assist me.
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BROWN: And we have been capable of corroborate that by talking with family and friends. She confided in reviewing photographs and screenshots of contemporaneous textual content messages, and we additionally reviewed a message from her medical supplier the week after she acquired the being pregnant and STD check, calling her a, quote, survivor.
Now, the Swalwell marketing campaign launched a press release from Congressman Swalwell saying, quote, these allegations are false, and are available on the eve of an election in opposition to the frontrunner for governor. For almost 20 years, I’ve served the general public as a prosecutor and a congressman, and have at all times protected girls. I’ll defend myself with the information and the place mandatory carry authorized motion. My focus in the approaching days is to be with my spouse and kids and defend our many years of service in opposition to these lies.