Eric Swalwell Just Resigned From Congress and a Fifth Accuser Is Coming Tomorrow

Eric Swalwell spent years calling Donald Trump a Russian asset – on every cable network that would have him.

Now the man who made his career screaming about other people's moral failures just resigned from Congress amid sexual assault allegations from four women.

You need to find out what one of those accusers told CNN about what Swalwell did to her in New York.

What the San Francisco Chronicle Broke Wide Open

A former intern – hired into Swalwell's district office at 21 years old – told the San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell began pursuing her almost immediately after she started working for him.

He sent her a nude photo of himself.

In 2019, they went out for drinks and she woke up the next morning in his hotel room with no clothes on and no memory of how she got there – but she knew what had happened.

She was still working for him at the time.

Five years later, at a gala in New York City, she was deep into a night of drinking again – and she says Swalwell forced himself on her a second time.

That second incident is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Four Women Down and a Fifth Appearing Tomorrow

The San Francisco Chronicle story opened the floodgates.

A woman named Ally Sammarco – 24 years old in 2021, trying to break into Capitol Hill – says Swalwell gave her his personal cell number, migrated their conversation to Snapchat, offered to help with her resume, and then sent her an unsolicited nude photograph of himself.

She was looking for a job.

He gave her something else entirely.

Three additional women have now come forward with accounts ranging from sexual assault to repeated inappropriate conduct.

The House Ethics Committee launched a bipartisan investigation into Swalwell on Monday.

And a fifth accuser will appear at a press conference in Beverly Hills tomorrow with her attorneys.

One day after announcing he was pulling out of the California governor's race, Swalwell announced he is resigning from Congress entirely – saying his constituents deserve a representative who isn't "distracted."

That is one word for it.

The Pattern Democrats Spent Years Protecting

Eric Swalwell is not an isolated case. He is the product of a party that has spent two decades deciding which scandals count and which ones disappear.

Swalwell sat on the House Intelligence Committee – one of the most sensitive positions in the entire federal government – while the FBI knew he had been cultivated by a suspected Chinese Ministry of State Security operative named Christine Fang.

Fang bundled money for his 2014 re-election campaign.

She helped place an intern directly inside his congressional office.

The FBI gave Swalwell a defensive briefing in 2015 and he cut off contact – but Democrats kept him on the Intelligence Committee for years afterward, where he proceeded to lecture the country daily about foreign interference and national security threats.

Now four women – potentially five as of tomorrow – say the man who claimed moral authority over everyone else was assaulting his own staffers in hotel rooms.

Democrats knew this playbook. They used it on Al Franken in 2017 – 35 senators called for his resignation within 24 hours once the party decided he was expendable. Nancy Pelosi called on Swalwell to drop out of the governor's race. Adam Schiff – who endorsed Swalwell – urged him to step aside. Every single one of Swalwell's 21 congressional endorsements evaporated within 24 hours of the Chronicle story dropping.

The party that built its brand on believing women moved at the speed of light when the political math changed.

The question nobody in the mainstream press is asking is simple: how long did they know?

Swalwell was the frontrunner in a crowded Democratic primary for governor of California. His campaign chair was a sitting U.S. congressman. The Chronicle story did not materialize from nothing – sources were cultivated, documents were reviewed, NDAs were apparently circulating.

Somebody knew.

And the same Democrats now racing to condemn him are the ones who handed him every platform, every endorsement, and every Intelligence Committee briefing he ever received.

Sources:

• Cristina Laila, "MAJOR BREAKING: Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress Amid Sexual Assault Allegations," The Gateway Pundit, April 13, 2026.
• "The Poetic Justice in Eric Swalwell's Relationship with a Chinese Spy," American Enterprise Institute, 2022.
• Jonathan Swan, "Exclusive: How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politics," Axios, December 8, 2020.
• "Swalwell's Meltdown Over the Fang Fang Files," Self Reliance Central, March 31, 2026.
• "Chinese Spy, Fang Fang, Honeypot: Dem Faces Fresh Accusations As Old Scandal Creeps Back," The Daily Wire, April 2026.