Not mentioned in Wednesday’s report on withheld information about the Trump “telephone call” is an odd “coincidence”: just a day earlier, one of the main Russiagate-mongers in Washington, D.C., Rep. Eric Swallwell (D-Calif.), resigned from Congress.
His resignation was not about the Russiagate nonsense, of course. Or a telephone call. Or anything of direct relevance to the voters. It was about sex. Sexual misconduct. Rape even. Reaction has included some gallows humor:
I had to laugh when I read this headline from the Babylon Bee, the conservative satire site: “With Swalwell Resigning, Just 534 Perverts Left In Congress.”
It’s funny (and sad) because there is some truth to it.
Ingrid Jacques, “Swalwell, Gonzales rightly resigned. Let’s elect better people,” USA Today (April 17, 2026).
Swallwell resigned in tandem with Tony Gonzalez (R-Tex.), actually. But the focus of most articles has been on Swallwell. Maybe it’s the name, maybe it’s his prominence as a Trump critic.
While the House investigations against him have ceased, other inquiries are ongoing, “including one announced Saturday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office,” reports an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. “The office plans to look into an alleged sexual assault reported by the Chronicle, which the former Swalwell staffer said took place after a charity gala in New York City in April 2024.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the main banana concocting and promoting the Russiagate psy-op, says he is “sickened” and “aghast” at the charges against Swallwell:
Had Schiff known what he now knows, why — he insists — he would not got near Swallwell “with a ten-foot pole.” His and AOC’s comments about partisanship are . . . interesting, if not quite believable.