Eric Swalwell Faces Growing Sexual Harassment Allegations

The office of Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., offers internships “for college students to gain valuable work experience … [and] absorb the many functions of a Congressional office.” If the growing harassment allegations against the leftist lawmaker and leading Democrat candidate for California governor are true, Congress may want to put the kibosh on Swalwell’s tutelage program for young women. 

It seems the accomplice media has been too busy falling all over themselves in their absurd attempt to make Swalwell a martyr of President Donald Trump’s “weaponization of law enforcement” to pay much attention to the women coming forward accusing the swamp rat of inappropriate sexual conduct. 

Swalwell’s flacks are furiously trying to explain away why the smarmy Democrat’s campaign spent north of $300,000 on “private attorneys who specialize in white-collar criminal defense and employment law.” They told KCRA 3 in Sacramento the payments were for legal guidance to fend off Trump’s “retaliatory investigations” into Swalwell that have “put his family and staff at risk.” After all, If you can’t trust a morally corrupt congressman who fervently peddled the Russia collusion hoax, who can you trust?

‘Pattern of Manipulation and Abuse of Power’

Cheyenne Hunt, a Democrat who in 2024 ran unsuccessfully for California’s 45th Congressional District seat, posted on her social media sites that she has been “working with a number of women who are in the process of coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and even alleged abuse at the hands of Eric Swalwell.” Hunt, who serves as executive director of the liberal organization Gen-Z for Change, claims a “major news outlet” is preparing to publish a story on the allegations.  

“So let me be as clear and transparent about that as I safely can be,” she said in a video posted to her Facebook page. “I am personally working with a group of women who want to come forward and share their stories. I am also aware of a much larger group that is also in this process that I am not personally working with.”

Hunt says the group has pro bono legal representation to protect the victims’ “legal and physical safety” as they share their experiences about Swalwell, adding that a number of women have come forward since a previous post last month. In that post she accused Swalwell of having a “predatory history toward women.” 

“I got deeply involved because, like I said in my first video, I had heard these rumors for years, going back to the time I was working on the hill,” said Hunt, who previously served as a law clerk for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, assisting the Minnesota Democrat in her position as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Then, once I started digging into it and I found that there were a number of other women whose stories match the same pattern of manipulation and abuse of power I knew that I couldn’t stay silent because these women needed to know that if they came forward, there was a group of people that would have their back.” 

The Federalist reached out to Swalwell’s office, by email and phone Monday afternoon. Representatives have not returned those requests for comment. A female staff member who directed questions to the the congressman’s communications director said she could not speak on behalf of the office but that her “experiences here have been nothing but good ones.” 

Others, not so much, according to Hunt and other sources. 

‘Many of His Interns’

In her first post late last month, Hunt cited a text from a woman who claimed Swalwell harassed her when she was a 19-year-old working in the congressman’s office. 

“You know Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign NDAs so they don’t speak up, right? And when I was 19 he tried hitting on me and sliding into my DMs and I have so many other friends that have similar experiences with him,” the text states. 

Hunt said she understands why people want names of Swalwell’s accusers and proof to back up the claims. She said many have remained silent for so long because they thought they were alone and that coming forward would ruin their careers in politics. 

“As someone who has worked in politics, I can’t disagree with that assessment. It appears that others may have stayed silent because of the belief that non-disclosure agreements required them to keep this secret,” the Democrat influencer said. “While it is true that most NDAs would be unenforceable under these circumstances, most people don’t know that and the idea of challenging a powerful sitting congressman in court is not something most people want to do.”

Covered in Sleaze

The allegations come at a particularly bad time for Swalwell, a far-left member of Congress who has spent the better part of the past decade whipping up the flames of Trump Derangement Syndrome. In the most recent polls, Swalwell is leading a crowded field of leftists in California’s race to replace sleazy Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has White House dreams dancing in his low SAT-scoring head. 

Swalwell himself is covered in sleaze. From his cozy relationship with an Chinese spy while a member of the House Intelligence Committee to his suspect California residency and his reported use of political funds for personal expenses, the Democrat has assembled quite a record as a D.C. swamp creature. 

As American Enterprise Institute’s Marc Thiessen wrote in 2020, there was a “certain poetic justice” about his relationship with Chinese intelligence plant Christine Fang ( aka “Fang Fang”). Swalwell, as The Federalist has extensively reported, was one of the main drivers of the debunked Democrat narrative that Trump and his campaign colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 presidential election. 

Thiessen wrote at the time: 

So, it is a bit ironic to learn that the congressman who claimed Trump was an agent of a hostile foreign power himself had a relationship with an alleged agent of a hostile foreign power. 

Fang began cultivating Swalwell when he was a member of the Dublin, Calif., city council, as part of a Chinese intelligence operation to get close to rising political stars. After he was elected to Congress in 2012, she became a bundler raising money for his reelection campaign. She chose her target well. Swalwell became a member of the House Intelligence Committee and lead Democrat on the subcommittee with oversight over the CIA.

And here’s an interesting tidbit, Fang, according to Axios, “facilitated the potential assignment of interns into Swalwell’s offices” and “in at least one case, an intern recommended by Fang was placed into Swalwell’s D.C. office.” 

‘The Truth is an Absolute Defense’

The congressman is up in arms over reports that the FBI is mulling releasing files from the Fang Fang affair, some three years after the House Ethics Committee closed its probe with — surprise, surprise — no further action. Swalwell’s representatives have sent a cease and desist notice to the FBI, insisting that release of the records would be an assault on the congressman’s right to privacy and further underscore the Trump Justice Department’s weaponization against political enemies. In other words, what the Biden DOJ did to Trump and other political enemies. 

“It’s just absurd and probably the worst abuse that we’ve seen since the J. Edgar Hoover days,” Swalwell said during a recent interview on CNN.

“We expect more will come, other nonsense from the administration. But we don’t trust them one bit. And it’s also absurd, just absolutely absurd, as somebody who was on the Intelligence Committee, oversaw the CIA for eight years, that they’re so out to interfere in the California gubernatorial race, where we’re leading.”

It also feels like a case of the California scumbag doth protest too much. The question should be, “What’s Swalwell got to hide?”

But Swalwell may have bigger fish to fry. 

According to KCRA 3, which first reported the story, campaign finance records show that between 2016 and 2023, the Democrat’s congressional campaign made 44 payments to Bay Area-based law firm Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLC totaling $305,118.

Micah Beasley, Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign spokesman, suggested that the legal services were provided to protect Swalwell from Trump. 

“Legal guidance for congressional offices and staff has become increasingly critical in this environment as Trump continues his pattern of weaponizing federal law enforcement to go after his critics. It would be irresponsible not to seek experienced legal counsel,” Beasley told KCRA. 

But why exactly would Swalwell turn to “private attorneys who specialize in white-collar criminal defense and employment law” to assist with alleged Trump vendettas? 

Hunt says she is not blind to the fact that the sexual harassment allegations will have an impact on the governor’s race, and as an attorney she knows what making claims without evidence could mean to her personally and professionally. 

“That being said, Swalwell follows me and I know that his team is aware of my videos and the videos that other creators have made on this topic. To the best of my knowledge, none of us has been served with legal paperwork or sent a cease and desist,” the liberal activist said. “They can’t because the truth is an absolute defense.”

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.