Eric Swalwell has been sending DMs and Snapchat messages to women that range from “uncomfortable comments to potentially criminal conduct.” That’s not our description. That’s the description from the Democrat activist organizing his accusers.
You just can’t make this stuff up. The man who slept with a Chinese spy is now facing allegations that he treated his own staff and interns like a congressional buffet.
Cheyenne Hunt is a progressive attorney, former congressional candidate, and executive director of Gen-Z for Change. She’s not a Republican operative. She’s not a MAGA troll. She’s a left-wing activist who says she got involved because the first victim was a close friend — and then she discovered the pattern went way deeper than one woman.
“I got involved because the first victim who approached me is a close friend,” Hunt posted on X, “but when I saw that there were others whose experiences fit the same pattern of manipulation and abuse of power, I knew I couldn’t stay silent.”
One of the accusers was nineteen years old when Swalwell allegedly started “hitting on me and sliding into my DMs.” Nineteen. A sitting United States congressman. Sliding into a teenager’s DMs like a creep at a college bar with a fake ID — except his ID says “Member of Congress.”
Hunt says the number of women coming forward is “shocking.” And that’s just the group she’s working with directly. There’s apparently an even larger group of women coming forward separately, women she’s never even spoken to. The accusers have secured pro bono legal representation and are in the process of sharing information with reporters.
Here’s the part that should make every Democrat in Sacramento nervous: Swalwell hasn’t sent a single cease-and-desist letter. Not one. Hunt pointed that out herself, adding, “The truth is an absolute defense and they know that.”
When an accused politician doesn’t lawyer up and threaten defamation suits, it usually means the defamation suit would involve discovery. And discovery would involve evidence. And evidence is the last thing Eric Swalwell wants anyone looking at right now.
The timing here is spectacular. Swalwell is currently one of the leading candidates to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California. He’s running on the “progressive champion” platform. Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel is pushing to release the classified investigative files on Swalwell’s cozy relationship with Chinese intelligence operative Christine Fang — the spy who helped him fundraise, recommended interns for his office, and may have done considerably more than that.
Swalwell’s response to the Fang Fang files? He lawyered up immediately, sent the FBI a cease-and-desist letter, and threatened legal action if they released the documents. He compared Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. He screamed about political persecution.
But for the women accusing him of sexual harassment? Silence. No legal threats. No denials. Nothing.
So let’s review the resume of the man who wants to be governor of America’s largest state. He had an intimate relationship with a literal Chinese spy who infiltrated his office. He’s fighting the FBI to keep those files sealed. He’s simultaneously being accused by multiple women — including a teenager — of sexual harassment ranging from creepy messages to “potentially criminal conduct.” And he screamed for years about releasing the Epstein files while hiding his own.
We used to have standards for public office in this country. You couldn’t run for dog catcher with this kind of baggage. But this is California, where the last governor let the state burn down and still thinks he should be president. Swalwell probably figures sexual harassment allegations and a Chinese spy scandal are just resume builders in Sacramento.
The women have lawyers. They’re talking to reporters. And Swalwell isn’t threatening to sue, which tells us everything his silence is designed to hide.
