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WhiskeyGrinder

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15. All of this was in the original SF Chronicle article
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:53 PM
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https://archive.ph/IDj4E

Five years later, the woman said, she attended an April 2024 charity gala where Swalwell was honored. The woman, who no longer worked for Swalwell, said they met for drinks afterward, during which she became so inebriated that she remembers only snippets of the night, including pushing Swalwell away and telling him, “No,” while he allegedly forced himself on her.

The woman texted a friend three days later that she was “sexually assaulted” by Swalwell. She wrote in a series of messages reviewed by the Chronicle that she had “blacked out” but “woke up once during it and even told him to stop at one point.”

“This happened one other time when I was working with him, but I convinced myself I was an equal party in it even though same pattern: I blacked out and he had sex with me,” she wrote, referring to the 2019 incident.

The Chronicle spoke with the friend and the woman’s then-boyfriend, whom she said she told about the alleged 2024 assault when she got home the next day. Both described her as still disoriented that morning, and her then-boyfriend said he encouraged her to report Swalwell to the police.

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I'm taking a wait an see approach MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #1
Well said, friend Grim Chieftain Yesterday #3
Also the Rapist PEDO in the Damaged WH... Cha Yesterday #12
I know, and it just makes me soooooooo pissed. a kennedy Yesterday #20
I am also sitting back and collecting data.... FarPoint Yesterday #6
Particularly as Kash Patel in on record Retrograde Yesterday #7
To believe this was republican ratfuckery requires suspension of reality Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #23
I thought I heard them say one alleged incident was only a couple of years ago at a hotel in NYC. There should Vinca Yesterday #2
Most places don't keep their security videos for years. LisaL Yesterday #16
The truth will prevail. Soon, I think. Joinfortmill Yesterday #4
About the instance in the hotel room, does the woman claim they were both too drunk? Katinfl Yesterday #5
The problem is that it is impossible (literally) to prove one didn't do something. So the burden is on the "victim," SheltieLover Yesterday #8
I didn't know that that about Kash Patel MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #10
Just read it in another thread. SheltieLover Yesterday #11
Yeah MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #14
I must have missed something along the way, but fargone Yesterday #17
Isn't some of the "evidence" texts? SheltieLover Yesterday #18
Thanks. If texts are involved I missed that. fargone Yesterday #21
... SheltieLover Yesterday #27
Meanwhjle, Trump was found liable for sexual assault and the Republicans did not call for him to Redleg Yesterday #9
I want so much for this not to be true but after reading the whole CNN article -Yikes. Marie Marie Yesterday #13
Yeah. This is no Franken situation. druidity33 Yesterday #19
He needs to drop out so focus moonscape Yesterday #24
All of this was in the original SF Chronicle article WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #15
Thank you for your opposition to this "wait and see" bullshit. hunter Yesterday #22
That would make one wonder if she had been drugged. MichMan Yesterday #25
Sure sounds like it to me LeftInTX Yesterday #28
I have an old fashioned attachment to the presumption of innocence. TomSlick Yesterday #26
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