Swalwell Quits Congress as New Victim Accuses Him of Rape, Strangling. Also Leaving Congress: GOP’s Gonzales of Texas

Far-left Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California quit Congress yesterday three days after CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle published accusations from women that he raped, sexually abused, or sent pictures of his genitalia on social media.

Swalwell, who represented his state’s 14th district, had earlier suspended his campaign for governor of California. But today, the California creep ended his career in Congress when another victim accused him of drugging and raping her. The woman said Swalwell choked her into unconsciousness.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who, like Swalwell, suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, opened an investigation into an allegation that Swalwell raped a woman in New York City.

After Swalwell announced his resignation, GOP Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas followed suit. He ended his bid for reelection when his affair with a staff member went public last month.

The Allegations

As The New American reported yesterday, CNN and the Chronicle published lurid allegations against Swalwell. In 2019, Swalwell was back in his district in San Francisco and alone in a car with a former staffer who was driving. He told her to pull into a parking lot, then asked her to perform oral sex. She complied, but then quit, saying it made her feel uncomfortable.

“You’re right, it’s probably not good for a congressman to be caught with his pants down,’” he told her, CNN reported:

In September 2019, she was alone with Swalwell at a bar in his district after a casual gathering with staffers, she said. “I was really, really drunk,” she said.

She said she remembers getting an Uber, and then the next thing she remembered, she woke up in Swalwell’s hotel room the following morning, naked in bed with him.

“I know that there was sexual contact because when I woke up in the morning, I could feel that there was,” she said. Swalwell told her that “last night was great” but she should get going, she said.

In 2024, the same staffer wound up in his hotel and again was intoxicated. Swalwell raped her. “I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” she told CNN. “He didn’t stop.”

Other women told CNN that Swalwell sent them pictures of his penis.

Swalwell denied the allegations, but suspended his gubernatorial campaign. Then came his letter resigning from Congress.

“I will fight the serious, false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make,” Swalwell wrote:

I am aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion against me and other members. Expelling anyone in congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.

New Allegation

Yet Bragg’s investigation in Manhattan is just one of Swalwell’s troubles. Another might be coming in California.

For yet another woman has said he raped and strangled her.

Lonna Drewes appeared before reporters to say the congressman raped her in a hotel room in West Hollywood. Indeed, her story suggests that Swalwell tried to murder her.

The former model who owns a fashion software company, Drewes said she met Swalwell three times. He invited her to two public events. She said Swalwell “offered me connections” to help her company.

“I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant,” she said through tears:

He was my friend.

On the third occasion, I believe he drugged my drink. I only had one glass of wine. We were supposed to go to a political event and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room. When I arrived at his hotel room I was already incapacitated and I couldn’t move my arms or my body.

He raped me, and he choked me, and while he was choking me I lost consciousness, and I thought I died.

I did not consent to any sexual activity. Although I did not undergo a rape kit at the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me. I also recorded these events in my handwritten calendar. The assault and its impact were later documented during my therapy sessions at a sexual assault center in Connecticut. It had a profound impact on my mental health. I self-medicated in an unhealthy way. I did not want to live anymore. 

I cried all the time for years. At the time, I was in a dating relationship with a boyfriend I was fully committed to.…

I’ve never cheated in my life, and I would never have engaged in a consensual sexual encounter. That reality further underscores the non-consensual nature of what occurred.

My delay in taking action against Eric was driven by fear, not doubt, fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties. I have never doubted what happened. I stand with the other women who have come forward, and I will be making a report to Law Enforcement shortly with my attorneys.

Gonzales Gone

Swalwell isn’t the only congressman who won’t be a congressman much longer. Gonzales announced his resignation yesterday as well, having already dropped out of the GOP primary because of an affair in 2024 with staff member Regina Ann Santos-Aviles. She committed suicide by setting herself ablaze.

Gonzales admitted the adultery last month on a conservative radio program.

But last week, the San Antonio Express-News divulged that Gonzales, who represents Texas-23, begged a staffer to send him nude photos in June 2020.

“Gonzales texted that she was a ‘smart girl’ in response to frustrations she had expressed about dating,” the newspaper revealed:

He used a diamond emoji to convey that she was special and shouldn’t “settle.”

Then, he asked when she normally went to sleep. Next, he asked what she would wear to bed.

Soon, it was “What kind of panties do you wear?”

The father of six then asked for nude photos and told the woman he wanted to have sex with her, then continued pressing her for the photos.

H/T: RedState, New York Post