Eric Swalwell Finds Out About Sudden Burst of ‘Investigative Reporting’
15th April 2026
If you doubt that our elitist media are a powerful component in the Democrat Party messaging machine, see what happened to Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. His career collapsed. Within about 48 hours, he went from the leading Democrat in a very fragmented field for governor of the Golden State to an exit ramp out of Congress.
It was a conservative pouncing party when CNN media reporter Brian Stelter touted Swalwell’s sudden misfortune as a “real testament to the power of investigative reporting.” Assembling a set of damning allegations of sexual assault certainly looks like investigative reporting. But the assembly can often look remarkably organized and timed for political effect.
In this case, California Democrats have been growing increasingly panicked at the polls in their “jungle primary” for governor – where the top two vote-getters (regardless of party) advance to a general-election runoff. It had become disastrously possible that the Top Two could both be Republicans – Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. Democrats needed to shrink their field of candidates. So voila, “investigative reporting” dropped a bomb on Swalwell – from the liberal San Francisco Chronicle and liberal CNN.