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demmiblue's JournalManhattan DA launches investigation into sexual assault allegation against Eric Swalwell
“We urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division at 212-335-9373,” the DA’s office said in a statement to CNN. “Our specially trained prosecutors, investigators and counselors are well-equipped to help you in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered manner.”
The former staffer told CNN that she was heavily intoxicated after a night of drinking with Swalwell in New York City in April 2024 when she woke up to him having sex with her in his hotel bed.
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/11/politics/manhattan-da-investigation-eric-swalwell?cid=ios_app
Your own personal Jesus...
This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.
— Steven D. Greydanus (@decentfilms.bsky.social) 2026-04-11T16:21:21.608Z
Adam Parkhomenko: I'm very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did [re: Swalwell]. I'm disgusted by all of it.
I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social
— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2026-04-11T00:27:17.258Z
BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct...
BREAKING: three *more* women have come forward to @cnn.com and accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct, including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos:
— Alex Ip 葉清霖 (@alexip718.com) 2026-04-10T22:44:29.299Z
www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN of the incident, which she said happened in 2024 after she had stopped working in Swalwell’s office. “He didn’t stop.”
She said it was the second time Swalwell had nonconsensual sexual contact with her while she was drunk. In 2019, when she was still working for him, she said she woke up naked with him in a hotel room after a night of heavy drinking. She said she had no memory of what happened but could feel physically that they’d had sexual contact.
Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman – including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/us/eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-allegations-invs
Trump: "My Admin stands ready to use full Economic Might of US to strengthen Hungary's Economy...
Trump: “My Admin stands ready to use full Economic Might of US to strengthen Hungary’s Economy, as we have done for our Great Allies in the past, if PM Orbán and the Hungarian People ever need it. We are excited to invest in future Prosperity that will be generated by Orbán’s continued Leadership!â€
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-10T20:41:35.372Z
Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office
Source: WSJ
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs, according to people with knowledge of the comments. That radius appears to be expanding as the president repeats the line. Another person who met with Trump earlier this year said the president quipped about pardoning anyone who had come within 10 feet.
In one conversation with advisers in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, some of the people said. The people said they weren’t aware of specific pardons being offered to specific people for specific acts.
The unconditional power to pardon is one of the most sweeping powers offered to the presidency. This term, Trump has wielded clemency far differently than any other president, dispensing some 1,600 grants to date. Many have gone to allies and donors, or those who had hired them, coming after a social pull-aside or a round of golf. Some have received bipartisan criticism, including one to a crypto billionaire whose company boosted Trump’s own digital-currency company, and another to a former Honduran president convicted of conspiring with cartels to ship cocaine to the U.S. In Trump’s first term, he signed fewer than 250 pardons and commutations.
The president has repeatedly raised the specter of pardons with White House aides and other administration officials, particularly when staff have suggested they could face prosecution or congressional investigations over decisions, people familiar with the comments said. Trump is known to joke about matters that he later seriously pursues, and the frequent references have led some aides to believe he is serious about the pardons, too.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32?st=8iABpV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seems like they all know they are commiting crimes?
— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T21:22:22.979Z
Amanda Ungaro on X: Hello Melania, I was around you for 20 years.... Because I will expose everything I know.
events and everything else.
So shut your mouth when speaking about me.
Because I will expose everything I know.
Follow this thread.
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T06:53:48.979Z
Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today.
Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane.
1/2
Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who allegedly introduced Melania to Trump in 1998, fathered Ungaro's child. They were engaged in an ugly custody battle. Zampolli leaned on ICE and his Trump connections to DEPORT Ungaro.
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T06:55:13.852Z
Zampolli also allegedly represented Melania when she was a model...
This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen. Trump on the NATO chief calling him "Daddy":
This is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-04-09T21:42:27.597Z
Trump on the NATO chief calling him “Daddyâ€:
“He said it very affectionately: ‘Daddy, you’re my daddy.’â€
Detroit whistleblower fired after reporting alleged drunken meltdown by top DDOT official
Mayor Mary Sheffield’s administration notified DDOT Chief Safety Officer Corey Holmes, who oversees safety for buses and their passengers, that he was terminated for “misrepresentation of authority” after conducting his own investigation into the erratic behavior of DDOT Chief of Staff Jennie Whitfield.
DDOT Executive Director Robert Cramer suspended Holmes on March 9, just six hours after Metro Times began asking questions about Whitfield.
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The chain of events began shortly before midnight in late January, when security guards and other employees said Whitfield barged into the downtown transit center while appearing to be inebriated, harassed employees, poked a guard in the chest, and nearly fell from a balcony while chasing a pigeon around the building with a bottle of water.
When a security guard convinced Whitfield to leave, he urged her passenger, a former Detroit General Services Department employee, to drive Whitfield home “so she could get some rest,” according to witness statements. Instead, Whitfield drove the car away, insisting “she was ok to drive herself home,” the guard wrote in a complaint.
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-detroit-news/detroit-whistleblower-fired-after-reporting-alleged-drunken-meltdown-by-top-ddot-official/
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