Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design — and so Dems can keep their grubby hands on California
New York Post ^ | April 15, 2026, 10:13 p.m. ET | Miranda Devine

Posted on 04/16/2026 2:07:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.

Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his ­remains.

Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently it will move to keep power in the state it has controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.

California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of the Democrats’ vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars off the taxpayers and recycled it through unions and “grassroots” donations back into the party.

That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts massive organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health services and hospice care.

California Democrats, like presidential aspirant Gov. Gavin Newsom, another Pelosi protégé, turn a blind eye to the fraud as the price of prospering in the ­machine.

Illegal migration, turbocharged under President Joe Biden by his Homeland Security secretary, California hit man Alejandro Mayorkas, also served the machine well, by artificially inflating the state’s census counts and enabling voter fraud.

The census inflation led to extra House seats for California and more electoral votes, and thus more power in presidential ­elections.

In return, the machine sponsors and protects useful buffoons like Swalwell, who was one of “Pelosi’s boys” from the minute he threw his hat into national politics as a 31-year-old San Francisco councilman with a mischievous grin and a lackluster legal career behind him.

She most likely sponsored Swalwell’s 2012 upset primary defeat of Democratic incumbent Rep. Pete Stark, a 40-year party veteran she couldn’t control.

From...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: believewomen; california; democratcorruption; democratfraud; demracketeering; dis4dishonest; fraudsquad; governor; metoo; professionalliars; riggedelections; swalwell; voterigging

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

1 posted on 04/16/2026 2:07:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
GROK Summary of Article
2 posted on 04/16/2026 2:10:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah we already knew that, what I dont understand is why they even allowed him to run in the first place for Governor, they knew about what he had done, heck they have known since 2013 so they could have just told him not to run and he would have remained congress prick


3 posted on 04/16/2026 2:14:17 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda

They allowed him to run when they thought he had a chance.

Then two republicans took the lead and the top two get to run in the main election

so,,, fartwell was splitting SOME democrat votes.

There may be more to follow if there is not someone moving up to at least the number two spot


4 posted on 04/16/2026 2:18:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda

My guess is the only reason he was “permitted” to resign congress is that the GOP immediately forked over Gonzalez.


5 posted on 04/16/2026 2:19:58 PM PDT by daler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bkmk


6 posted on 04/16/2026 2:25:08 PM PDT by sauropod
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why was Swillwell allowed to run for Governor?

Heck, for about 15 minutes Michael Avenatti was celebrated as the next democRAT presidential candidate.

Alcee Hastings is a democRAT impeached Judge who was later elected as a Democrat to congress.

What a Surprise!


7 posted on 04/16/2026 2:25:23 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

As Trump said to the Iranian dissidents, now it is up to you Californians to vote out the scoundrels, a chance that may not come again for a generation.

Maybe someday.

“My parents always voted Dem all the time, every election and I guess I always will vote Dem until I die someday.”- Californian. 🗳️


8 posted on 04/16/2026 2:33:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda

That’s it. The dems can’t be the all-knowing and all-in-control political machine after someone screws up and is removed and duck responsibility to putting him there in the first place. Same as with Biden, they picked him, lied for him, and then dumped him all for the same reason: they thought at the time it was the best way to maintain their power.

Everything is a means to that end for dems. When something ceases to be, it’s flushed lie a turd.


9 posted on 04/16/2026 2:42:48 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda

“Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design”

Well duh, this was a hit by his own party and the rat voters are such clueless idiots they don’t even realize what happened here.


10 posted on 04/16/2026 2:49:59 PM PDT by gibsonguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess Miranda reads FreeRepublic.


11 posted on 04/16/2026 2:51:10 PM PDT by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s too bad Swalwell won’t turn against his Dem traitors who decided to make him political roadkill.

He knows where so many bodies are buried.

And no longer has to owe them something. I’m sure they aren’t going to grant him some sort of pardon or say he’s in a 12 step sex offender group so let him go home now.

“Hello, everybody. I am Eric.”
Group: “Hello, Eric.”


True story——David Duchovny of X Files fame struggled with being a sex addict. Off and on in his 17 year marriage to actress Tea Leoni, the pair separated and reunited. He denied addiction in 1997 but in 2008 “I have voluntarily entered a facility for the treatment of sex addiction,”
and at another point said he was obsessed with online porn.

I thought about his problem when I recently saw The Family Man where the Nicolas Cage husband character was told by his guy friend: “Half of the guys in this city would give their left nut to be married to your wife.” (Played by Tea Leoni).
Cage character had been doubting if he could cope with being a husband.


12 posted on 04/16/2026 2:52:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: daler

“is that the GOP immediately forked over Gonzalez.”

Gonzalez was a dead duck. He lost the primary to Brandon Herrera

https://brandonherreraforcongress.com/


13 posted on 04/16/2026 2:52:54 PM PDT by Fai Mao
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

Its ironic the left says how much they hate billionaires and hate billionaires who especially BUY elections, yet Steyer is literally BUYING this election..all you see are ads for HIM..and you can bet that Steyer is the one who paid off these women to “Come forward” yeah I dont think for a second they came out of the goodness of their heart, they were all told “Ok its save to come out now, its time to destroy this prick now here’s your money” and you can say the same for the Katie Porter tapes of her being a nutcase, Steyer paid for it all


14 posted on 04/16/2026 3:00:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: frank ballenger
He knows where so many bodies are buried.

I wouldn’t go that far. But he knows who knows where the bodies are buried.

15 posted on 04/16/2026 3:11:28 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: daler

Democrats don’t do anything for no reason.

Just like when they threw Cuomo under the bus. Hochul is far worse.

We need to seriously keep praying for that election.


16 posted on 04/16/2026 3:14:24 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
From the article: Eric Swalwell’s fall from grace...

Fall yes. From "grace", absolutely not. He was always a filthy frontman for the left. There's no grace there.

17 posted on 04/16/2026 3:15:38 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: frank ballenger

I could never stand Tea Leoni


18 posted on 04/16/2026 3:17:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Fledermaus

So you were safe. Great feeling.

I actually can’t see what the fuss is about with her. To each their own.


19 posted on 04/16/2026 3:20:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: frank ballenger

I like to watch that movie every Christmas because of Tea Leoni. My wife, not so much.


20 posted on 04/16/2026 3:22:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson