Day: April 15, 2026
Democrats Who Called Eric Swalwell Their ‘Friend’ Now Say They’re Stunned by Accusations Against Him
It was an open secret among the political class—except, apparently, to those who knew him best. Democrats who once described their closeness with former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) now say they are shocked by the string of sexual misconduct allegations against him–including rape–that ended his gubernatorial campaign and led to his resignation from Congress. The professions of ignorance come as reporters, former Capitol Hill staffers, and other political insiders say Swalwell’s alleged treatment of women has been an open secret in the nation’s Capitol.
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Democrats Who Called Eric Swalwell Their ‘Friend’ Now Say They’re Stunned by Accusations Against Him
It was an open secret among the political class—except, apparently, to those who knew him best. Democrats who once described their closeness with former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) now say they are shocked by the string of sexual misconduct allegations against him–including rape–that ended his gubernatorial campaign and led to his resignation from Congress. The professions of ignorance come as reporters, former Capitol Hill staffers, and other political insiders say Swalwell’s alleged treatment of women has been an open secret in the nation’s Capitol.
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Karoline Leavitt Says With Straight Face Trump Has Brought Down Gas Prices
‘Look at how gas prices decreased over the past year’
Karoline Leavitt Says With Straight Face Trump Has Brought Down Gas Prices
‘Look at how gas prices decreased over the past year’
‘Absurd’ perks for Haitian migrants may be extended, thanks to these 6 Republicans
The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.
Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.
‘If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.’
The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians “absurd,” echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.
RELATED: ‘Terrible betrayal’: Republican’s ‘compassionate’ immigration bill sparks intraparty clash
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Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.
“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post.
“As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control,” he added.
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‘Absurd’ perks for Haitian migrants may be extended, thanks to these 6 Republicans
The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.
Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.
‘If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.’
The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians “absurd,” echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.
RELATED: ‘Terrible betrayal’: Republican’s ‘compassionate’ immigration bill sparks intraparty clash
Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.
“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post.
“As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control,” he added.
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WATCH: Glenn Beck’s savage open letter torches Swalwell’s hypocrisy after sexual misconduct scandal forces campaign suspension
Last Sunday, Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign after reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN detailed multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies. He resigned from Congress the next day amid lost endorsements and staff departures.
Now Glenn Beck reads the open letter he wrote to Swalwell to illustrate the timeless law of reciprocity.
Glenn begins by rehashing Swalwell’s public opposition to Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. Tweeting #BelieveSurvivors, Swalwell argued that multiple accusers meant the allegations were likely true (or Kavanaugh was the “unluckiest person in the world”) and said victims “deserve to be heard” and their allegations investigated.
“Congressman, do you feel the same way today?” Glenn asks. “Because now you have 50 women — 50 — from your office claiming the same thing. … Should we bring them all in? Should we question them publicly, or is this time different?”
“At the time, you even pushed back on applying strict legal standards in public judgment, noting, ‘The testimony of a single witness can prove any fact,’” he continues.
“So perhaps we just bring in one woman out of the 50 and let her speak publicly and believe her because she, as you pointed out, is a survivor.”
Glenn accuses Swalwell of showing “little to no patience for caution,” putting “little emphasis on presumption of innocence,” and lending “little concern for due process in the court of public opinion” in Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings.
“And what’s truly sad is, at the time — unlike today — you were not alone. But boy, I bet you feel alone today,” he sneers.
“Isn’t it weird and a bitter symmetry that is happening here?” he asks. “You once argued that accusations carried its own moral force, that patterns of claims pointed towards truth no matter what, and that the accused should open themselves fully to prove their innocence.”
But now, Swalwell asks for “time,” “fairness, and “restraint.”
“The very principles you minimalized are the ones you now invoke,” Glenn says.
Calling him a “destructive, dishonest, selfish, slimy … force” who “never seemed to care about anything other than [his] own personal agenda,” Glenn grants Swalwell what he was unwilling to grant to others: “The allegations against you, however serious, however numerous, remain allegations.”
However, Glenn isn’t the least bit sorry that Swalwell’s career, ambitions, and reputation have been destroyed.
“There’s no one who deserves to feel that pain more than you,” he says.
He then points out the irony of the progressive Marxist apparatus Swalwell has been instrumental in.
“You were destroying the progressive enemies, and so they protected you. And in that, your arrogance grew. … You were untouchable. You were invincible — until you become an inconvenience,” he says. “And then Marxists and progressives do what they always do. Ends justify the means. You are expendable.”
The rise and fall of Swalwell, Glenn says, is a perfect example of God’s eternal law: “As you judge, so shall you be judged.”
To hear more of Glenn’s savage open letter to Eric Swalwell, watch the video above.
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WATCH: Glenn Beck’s savage open letter torches Swalwell’s hypocrisy after sexual misconduct scandal forces campaign suspension
Last Sunday, Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign after reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN detailed multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies. He resigned from Congress the next day amid lost endorsements and staff departures.
Now Glenn Beck reads the open letter he wrote to Swalwell to illustrate the timeless law of reciprocity.
Glenn begins by rehashing Swalwell’s public opposition to Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. Tweeting #BelieveSurvivors, Swalwell argued that multiple accusers meant the allegations were likely true (or Kavanaugh was the “unluckiest person in the world”) and said victims “deserve to be heard” and their allegations investigated.
“Congressman, do you feel the same way today?” Glenn asks. “Because now you have 50 women — 50 — from your office claiming the same thing. … Should we bring them all in? Should we question them publicly, or is this time different?”
“At the time, you even pushed back on applying strict legal standards in public judgment, noting, ‘The testimony of a single witness can prove any fact,’” he continues.
“So perhaps we just bring in one woman out of the 50 and let her speak publicly and believe her because she, as you pointed out, is a survivor.”
Glenn accuses Swalwell of showing “little to no patience for caution,” putting “little emphasis on presumption of innocence,” and lending “little concern for due process in the court of public opinion” in Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings.
“And what’s truly sad is, at the time — unlike today — you were not alone. But boy, I bet you feel alone today,” he sneers.
“Isn’t it weird and a bitter symmetry that is happening here?” he asks. “You once argued that accusations carried its own moral force, that patterns of claims pointed towards truth no matter what, and that the accused should open themselves fully to prove their innocence.”
But now, Swalwell asks for “time,” “fairness, and “restraint.”
“The very principles you minimalized are the ones you now invoke,” Glenn says.
Calling him a “destructive, dishonest, selfish, slimy … force” who “never seemed to care about anything other than [his] own personal agenda,” Glenn grants Swalwell what he was unwilling to grant to others: “The allegations against you, however serious, however numerous, remain allegations.”
However, Glenn isn’t the least bit sorry that Swalwell’s career, ambitions, and reputation have been destroyed.
“There’s no one who deserves to feel that pain more than you,” he says.
He then points out the irony of the progressive Marxist apparatus Swalwell has been instrumental in.
“You were destroying the progressive enemies, and so they protected you. And in that, your arrogance grew. … You were untouchable. You were invincible — until you become an inconvenience,” he says. “And then Marxists and progressives do what they always do. Ends justify the means. You are expendable.”
The rise and fall of Swalwell, Glenn says, is a perfect example of God’s eternal law: “As you judge, so shall you be judged.”
To hear more of Glenn’s savage open letter to Eric Swalwell, watch the video above.
Want more from Glenn Beck?
To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
‘No amount of fraud is too big or too small’: Vance’s anti-fraud task force targets every crook stealing from taxpayers
Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.
During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.
‘If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.’
President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.
On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.
“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.
The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.
RELATED: Vance’s task force shutters 221 hospices in ‘fraud king’ Gavin Newsom’s California
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During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.
“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”
Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.
“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.
RELATED: How a California crook committed $178 million worth of health care fraud — in just one year
Alex Wong/Getty Images
As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.
“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.
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‘No amount of fraud is too big or too small’: Vance’s anti-fraud task force targets every crook stealing from taxpayers
Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.
During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.
‘If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.’
President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.
On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.
“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.
The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.
RELATED: Vance’s task force shutters 221 hospices in ‘fraud king’ Gavin Newsom’s California
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.
“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”
Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.
“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.
RELATED: How a California crook committed $178 million worth of health care fraud — in just one year
Alex Wong/Getty Images
As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.
“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.
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