White House says it's 'plausible' Congressional Dems knew of Eric Swalwell's alleged sexual misconduct

In Wednesday’s White House press briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt called for journalists to "do their jobs" and press Congressional Democrats over how they may have known about the allegations of sexual misconduct against now-former Rep Eric Swalwell, who resigned on Tuesday, and why they "never did anything about it."

Noting a video he released of Swalwell in Las Vegas with a woman, Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec asked, "this scandal has erupted now, accusers coming forward, many others coming forward, as well as questions regarding his extremely close relationship with Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego, and I want to know if the administration had any comment on the fact that Senator Gallego seemed to be very vocal about wanting the release of the Epstein files, and yet, when questions come to his own involvement with Eric Swalwell, he doesn't seem to want to provide anything."

Leavitt replied, "Yeah. Look, I think the accusations and allegations against former Representative Swalwell are despicable and disgusting. I think it's also quite plausible, as you point out Jack, that there were many other Democrats in this town on Capitol Hill who knew about his perhaps illegal behavior, certainly his disgusting and inappropriate behavior, and why were they silent for so long?"

"I think those are questions that must be raised of these sitting representatives, including Mr. Gallego, and I hope that the journalists in this room will do their jobs and the journalists on Capitol Hill will do their jobs to ask Democrats in power how they knew about such despicable behavior from one of their elected representatives for so long, but never said or did anything about it. So that's what we hope to see as far as the White House and the President is concerned," she added.

Speaking after the press conference, Posobiec noted past pressure campaigns against figures such as Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, adding, "where is that kind of energy when it comes to Eric Swalwell? … Where’s the energy for Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who we know is a close friend?"

"They traveled together. They appeared shirtless on vacation together. They have text messages back and forth that they've tweeted out," said Posobiec, adding that Gallego had been pressuring in 2025 to "release the files" related to Epstein. "Okay, those files are out. But what about your files with Swalwell? What about the Swalwell files? Where's that same level of energy? And we just don't see it …  that's what this comes down to me about, is who else in government knew about this, especially this network of close friends."

Swalwell resigned on Tuesday after multiple women came forward alleging sexual misconduct at the hands of Swalwell. Attention has turned to Gallego, with Rep Mike Lawler writing a letter to the Democrat Senator demanding he "release all communications exchanged between yourself and the alleged predator" in light of his  "personal and professional relationship with Eric Swalwell."

Lawler said Gallego and Swalwell’s friendship "is well-documented," with Gallego serving as Swalwell’s National Campaign Chairman in 2020. "You traveled the country together and attended events side by side. Further, you went on a trip together to Qatar, posting photographs riding camels shirtless, indicating that the trip was not merely business meetings. And just in the past few months at a campaign event for the Congressman’s gubernatorial race, he referred to you as his 'best friend in the world.' Furthermore, it is well documented that you were roommates while serving together in the House."

He later added, "If you truly had no knowledge of his sexual assault allegations and inappropriate conduct towards young women, you should have nothing to hide. In the interest of full transparency, you must release all text messages, emails, group chat messages including over Signal, social media communications, including Facebook, Instagram, X, Snapchat, TikTok, as well as any photos and videos."