Fox News host Jesse Watters marveled at how the Democrat machine carried out a swift and ruthless “political assassination” on Eric Swalwell, who was one of the party’s rising stars.
On Tuesday’s edition of “The Five,” Swalwell’s fall from grace at breakneck speed was the topic of discussion, with Watters saying that the party knew about his sordid conduct for years and only “pulled the trigger” when he became a threat to their stranglehold on political power in California.
The disgraced Democrat resigned from Congress on Tuesday after a hellish week that saw him go from a top candidate in the California governor’s race to the unemployment line amid a flurry of sexual assault allegations, including one woman who said that he drugged and raped her in a hotel room, choking her until she lost consciousness.
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“Well, the Democrat machine’s pretty slimy, if you think about it. Nancy Pelosi was Eric Swalwell’s mentor. She put him on the House Intel Committee, kept him there even after Fang Fang,” he said, referring to Christine Fang, the Chinese spy who the now former congressman was sleeping with. “Jeffries put him on the J6 committee, so he was sponsored.”
“He was a rising star, and they used him as a weapon to hurt Trump, and they looked the other way at all these shenanigans until he threatened their power in California, and then kaboom, coup, nuked on the eve of the primary,” he continued.
“First shot fired Friday in the hometown paper, San Francisco Chronicle, that hurts, it was local,” Watters went on. “And then over the weekend, you just see a domino of endorsements collapse. CNN gets the woman in the spot shadow. The network CBS now has three women’s faces out there, and then Monday, he takes himself out. They didn’t even need this woman on Tuesday, who accused him of choking her, raping her, and drugging her.”
Watters was referring to Lonna Drewes, who held a Tuesday press conference in Los Angeles with her high-powered attorney, Lisa Bloom, where she came forth with her story of the alleged hotel room rape.
BREAKING: “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.”
“I would never have engaged in a consensual sexual encounter with Eric Swalwell.” – Lonna Drewes pic.twitter.com/DiLBy1lA5c
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“This was highly orchestrated, professionally organized, this was a political assassination,” Watters said. “And I think it was only possible because the Democrat machine knew about all of this for years, and everybody in Washington’s admitting they knew about it, everybody’s admitting this was all out there. Did the reporters dig? No. Did the Democrats protect the women? No, not at all.”
The host then likened the hit on Swalwell to the party’s move to put down Old Yeller.
“I think it all happened the way Biden went down, they covered up his brain, then he blew himself up at the debate, became a liability, threatened all their seats, and the coup happened, same thing here,” he explained. “So the Democratic machine is ruthless. They survive on blackmail, coverups, and coups. Now, Trump took on the Republican machine in 16 and won, but so far the Democrat machine remains unbeaten.”
“And I’m not saying Swalwell’s a victim,” Watters concluded, using his fingers to form a pretend pistol pointing at his head. “He did this to him – he put the gun to his head, but the Democrat party pulled the trigger.”
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