Eric Swalwell Shows His Lack Of Character In Resignation Statement
Eric Swalwell resigned from the House, but didn't take full responsibility for his behavior, and also played the victim on the prospect of an expulsion vote from the House.
Eric Swalwell is 45 years old, and at some point in the near future, the odds are that he will try to stage a political comeback. That is the only explanation I can think of for Swalwell's resignation statement, which contained enough ambiguity and blame of others to suggest that he is going to try to reemerge after he thinks the scandal has blown over.
Here was Swalwell’s resignation statement:
Swalwell talks about taking responsibility, but he doesn’t give any indication that he thinks he did anything wrong. Sexual misconduct and sexual assault are not mistakes. Those are choices that hurt and harm women. A mistake is something that wasn’t intended to happen. What Swalwell did was make a choice.
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Swalwell maintains that he didn’t commit rape or criminal sexual assault. Those are acts that he is alleged to have committed. The criminal investigation will hopefully be able to reveal the facts.
Former Rep. Swalwell’s complaints about the expulsion vote reveal that the threat of expelling him from Congress is why he is resigning. Swalwell didn’t have a realization or moral awakening. He knew that enough Democrats would vote to expel him, so resignation was his only option.
House Democratic leadership was not defending him, and immediately released a statement after the allegations surfaced, calling on him to end his campaign for governor of California.
Even Swalwell’s friends called for his expulsion.
I believe that a person who has changed or rehabilitated deserves a second chance, but Swalwell is showing that it would have been a mistake for House Democrats to fend off the expulsion vote. Swalwell hasn’t taken full responsibility and spent a statement that should be about apologizing to the people he hurt, including the alleged victims, who are never mentioned, raising a complaint about due process.
Eric Swalwell is an attorney. He knows that there is no right to due process in Congress. The fact that Swalwell brought up due process suggests that he is going to go the Donald Trump route and claim that he was politically targeted and denied his rights.
Women are the majority of the Democratic Party and the backbone of the party.
Eric Swalwell showed that he is still only thinking about himself as he resigns from Congress, which is why there should be no place for Swalwell in the Democratic Party now or in the future.
What do you think about Swalwell’s resignation? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
He says he didn't do anything wrong, so I'm a bit confused. What responsibility should he take for behavior he says he didn't do? But I'm glad he did resign to spare the country, the state and the party from a godawful circus.
I’m probably gonna get a lot of pushback from this. I know that women, myself included, have been victims of sexual abuse by men since the dawn of human civilization. The men have almost always gotten away with it. And most women don’t make these accusations lightly. But when the circumstances are “he said she said” at least at first, I guess I wonder why sexual assault is the only crime in which men are guilty unless proven innocent. I do think he should stop his run for Governor, because he’s under investigation for a serious crime, and he’s become a distraction. I think he should be investigated by the House regarding the crimes he’s been accused of and be allowed to defend himself before losing his seat. The pendulum has swung so far in favor of accusers these days that little proof is needed before publicly accusing someone of sexual assault. After all, this woman did stay as an employee and possibly in a relationship with him for several years, and then became involved with him again, apparently. So it’s not as cut and dried as it appears. It’s definitely an imbalance of power and he made, at the very least, a terrible error in judgment by getting involved with her for a multitude of reasons. I dunno, I still think we’re tarring and feathering the guy before he’s had a chance to defend himself. Y’all keep saying “alleged”, but the truth is that everyone has decided 💯 that he’s guilty of rape. I think the truth may be a little less black and white. Either way, he’s likely a scumbag for engaging in a relationship with a staffer. But that doesn’t mean he raped her. What if they were both completely shitfaced and had sex? Women want to be treated as equals, rightly so, but we want to be protected in a way that men are not when it comes to these situations. I happen to know a couple of men who were falsely accused of rape, and the only way they were able to prove it was because the women admitted they had lied for various reasons. Don’t equate this with women being encouraged to shut up for fear of wrecking some spoiled rich preppy guy’s future. There are very occasional circumstances where women do lie or mislead about particular accusations for whatever reason, Not often, but it happens. It’s almost considered blasphemous to say so. And the statistics that say that women rarely lie about sexual assault only count as a lie situations where the women admitted the lie or were somehow proven to be lying. It’s notoriously hard to prove you didn’t do something like a sexual assault, that the woman was a willing participant, or that it never happened. Those cases never are counted. I say let the guy be brought up on charges and have him go through a trial. It is, after all, a crime she’s accusing him of. If he’s found guilty he would obviously have to resign. Unless there’s a tremendous amount of evidence, or he admits that he did it, I’m not sure he should resign. In the meantime, if he’s found guilty loses his seat in the midterms that’s fair. Whatever happened, he definitely fell short of his oath of office and I actually wouldn’t vote for him given that he clearly, at the very least, made some terrible decisions.