Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi never thought this truth would see the light of day.
But Pelosi was in for a rude awakening.
And Nancy Pelosi thought she buried this secret forever. It just came back to destroy her.
Nancy Pelosi was one of Congressman Eric Swalwell’s political patrons.
Pelosi enabled Swalwell’s rise by handing him plum committee assignments, such as a spot on the House Intelligence and January 6 Committees.
Swalwell leveraged those positions to build a brand as a leader of the anti-Trump resistance, which Swalwell used as a springboard to run for Governor of California.
Now that Swalwell ended his gubernatorial campaign and resigned from Congress in the wake of rape allegations, Pelosi is facing questions about what she knew of Swalwell’s conduct and when she knew it.
NBC News asked Pelosi about Republicans’ accusations that she and other Democrats turned a “blind eye” to concerns about Swalwell.
“Absolutely not. They may indeed say that, but it is absolutely not true,” Pelosi said before doubling down. “None whatsoever. None whatsoever. I had no idea whatsoever.”
Pelosi ran the House Democrat caucus with an iron fist, and her denials about any knowledge of Swalwell’s conduct were hard to square with two admissions.
Arizona Senator Rueben Gallego was one of Swalwell’s closest friends in Congress, and Gallego admitted “we all” were aware of the rumors of Swalwell’s predatory behavior.
“We all heard rumors in Washington DC” Gallego said of Swalwell.
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said he warned Pelosi back in 2018 that she couldn’t put someone like Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee due to his sexual history.
“Listen, let me be very clear. I tried to get rid of Swalwell six, eight years ago, when I got the briefing, when I became leader with the FBI. Nancy Pelosi was in the room. I turned to her and said, “How can you keep him on Intel?” Intel is a select committee that only the leaders put people on, where you know all the secrets that other members do not. But I made a motion—” McCarthy began before host Jonathan Karl interrupted, asking if McCarthy was referring to Swalwell’s romantic relationship with alleged Chinese Communist spy Fang Fang.
“It was a combination with the Chinese spy, and it led to all that,” McCarthy replied.
But McCarthy added that his concerns went beyond Fang Fang and extended to the fact that McCarthy claimed everyone in Congress knew not to allow young female staffers around Swalwell.
“Every member in Congress knows not to let any young staffer get around Eric Swalwell or Matt Gaetz. It’s not a secret. There’s a reason why you didn’t want those two people around. He was the leading candidate for governor. He probably could have won the primary and gotten there, but this all came forward. And these young women deserve justice,” McCarthy concluded.
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