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EPISODE · Apr 14, 2026 · 8 MIN

Does this thing with Californa Rep Eric Swalwell surprise you at all?

from The Charlie James Show Podcast

The situation involving Rep. Eric Swalwell is certainly a massive shakeup for California politics, especially given how quickly it derailed his frontrunner status in the gubernatorial race. On April 13, 2026, Swalwell announced he would resign from Congress following serious allegations of sexual misconduct and assault from multiple women, including a former staffer. While he has forcefully denied the most severe claims of assault—vowing to fight them even as he apologized for unspecified "mistakes in judgment"—the swift dissolution of support from major labor unions and high-profile allies like Senator Adam Schiff effectively forced his hand. With criminal investigations reportedly being opened in New York and potentially California, the "surprise" for many observers isn't just the allegations themselves, but the lightning-fast collapse of a decade-long political career.

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00:00 Welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. would you say? JJ? JJ is telling me everything is set up right at the last minute. That's good. Welcome to the program. Beautiful, beautiful Tuesday going on out there. Hope you got out to cut the yard first thing this morning. Got in and ahead and got that over with. um So let me ask you something. Does this thing with Eric Swalwell? 00:30 Does it surprise you at all? I mean, literally. Were you shocked when you first heard of these allegations? you go, no, not him, not Smallwell. No, no, no, no, you're telling me that the guy that had a relationship with a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, 00:56 was also sexually assaulting other way. You're telling me that same guy, you got to be kidding me. Get out of here. Doesn't he just have the whole look about him? Just that whole creepy, bleh, kind of slimy, blech. He always looks like he just crawled out of a cesspool. 01:21 That's what Eric Swalwell did. So no, no, I was not surprised. And you know what? The Democrats weren't surprised either. In fact, I've been telling you over the past couple of days, the chairman of the Alameda County out in California, chairman of the Alameda County Democrat Party said, oh yeah, oh yeah, we've known about it. Wait a minute, hold on. You've known about it? 01:51 You've known it. How long have you known about this? So then Ruben uh Gallego uh was talking today and he was like, oh, oh yeah, oh, he's flirty. Oh yeah, oh, he's always flirty. And we've known about that. Wait a minute. I thought flirty was part of me too, right? Everybody remember that? You can't even flirt with women anymore. That's the hashtag me too. 02:22 So, hey, Charlie Swalwell is a horn dog. Yes, apparently he is. You're exactly right. But the weirdest thing of all is they all knew about it. And just like Harvey, I guess it was just like one of the great unspokens there in D.C. Everybody knows about it. Nobody says anything about it. Even though he's taken advantage of all of these women. Now, I mean, what he did... 02:50 by slipping something into a woman's drink. That is illegal. I hope he goes to jail. I really, really do. Charlie, there are four people. Oh, I bet there's more. I really do. I bet there's more. Four different women accusing him of this. Probably more once they see this, they're gonna come out and they're gonna, yeah, happen to me too. Hashtag me too. 03:18 So, but again, he could go not to jail, I said jail, he could go to prison. 03:29 with the jumpsuit and the flip-flops. That kind of prison. The big boy prison. And I hope he does. Let's go to John in Spartanburg, talk about Swallowell. How you doing, John? How you doing good, Charlie? How you doing? I'm great, man. What's up? I got two questions and a couple comments. Okay. Was it Mr. Swallow? 03:52 I don't know if he was married at the time. is he not married, right? He is married now, yes, and he's got several young children. Okay, so wasn't he having an affair with a Chinese spy while he was married since he's got young children? mean... I don't think um he was married at the time. I don't think he was married at the time. Okay, my other question is, didn't 04:21 Bill Cosby gets sent to prison for the exact same thing. You see what he did, what Bill Cosby did is he put the pills in the people. He put the pills in the people and he went to the prison. Exactly right. That's exactly what Bill Cosby got. So saying that he should get sent to prison like Bill Cosby did. Yeah. No prejudice whatsoever. Yes. my last comment is 04:49 with a name like Swallow, they're gonna love him. You're probably right. I appreciate it, John. A Swallow well married Melissa Miranda back in 2007. Then after a divorce, Swallow married his second wife, Brittany Ann Watts, a sales director at Ritz-Cottleton, Half Moon Bay, in October of 2016. They have three kids. So I don't know if all of this happened. 05:16 during his marriage to Melissa Miranda, wh ...

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