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Dem donors bankroll Eric Swalwell’s disturbing sex scandal?

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

The word “rape rooms” dredges up images of Saddam Hussein cruelly torturing his political enemies. But soon it could also conjure up visions of Eric Swalwell and his deep-pocketed donors.

The disgraced former congressman and front-runner to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California spent thousands of dollars renting hotel rooms where he’s accused of brutally raping multiple women—and his campaign donors paid for the whole thing.

All in all, Swalwell has spent nearly half-a-million dollars on hotel rooms since he entered Congress in 2013, according to a tabulation of campaign finance records conducted by The California Post, the West Coast counterpart of The New York Post, including $36,500 in the last year. But it’s a check-in from eight years ago that’s raising eyebrows.

July 18, 2018. That’s the day Swalwell rented a room at the Montrose West Hollywood and gave his campaign the bill.

That’s also the day Lonna Drewes accuses Swalwell of raping her in that very room. “He offered me connections to further my software company,” said the 50-year-old fashion model, who was then getting her business off the ground, in a press conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. “I believe he drugged my drink,” Drewes continued, adding she only had one glass of wine. “When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated, and I couldn’t move my arms over my body.”

“He raped me, and he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness,” she said, tears filling her eyes. “I thought I died.”

Unfortunately, it’s just one record in Swalwell’s alleged rape campaign, underwritten by liberal donors.

February 26, 2024, is the second date to remember. Campaign records show Swalwell requested his campaign send New York City’s ritzy Times Square Edition hotel two payments of $1,095.52.

Two months later, he would attend an awards ceremony and stay in that hotel…and a former staffer would accuse him of aggressively raping her.

According to her, it wasn’t the first time Fang-Fang’s former flame coerced her into having non-consensual sex.

The first time, she said, happened in 2019, when the two went out drinking together, and she woke up naked in his hotel room with no memory of what happened. But she knew they had sex.

Five years later, in April 2024, she again went out drinking with Swalwell and awakened in his hotel bed—but this time, the moment would be seared into her memory.

She was naked, and Swalwell was on top of her and acting “aggressive.” “I was pushing him off of me, saying ‘No!’” the woman, who has chosen to remain anonymous, said. “He didn’t stop.”

“I woke up the next morning naked, alone, in his hotel room,” she said, documenting her claims by texting family and friends that she had been “sexually assaulted” by “Eric.” CNN verified the texts.

The alleged assault took place two months after the campaign request, but finance records note the date of the request, not the day a politician actually spends the money.

So, there’s an excellent chance liberal Democratic Party campaign donors paid for that alleged crime scene, too.

And these are not Swalwell’s only purported victims.

Others tell similar stories of the ultra-left-wing Californian promising to help them, only to lure them into sex talk or proposition them.

Annika Albrecht was in college in 2019 when Swalwell added her to a Snapchat offering to “mentor” her, but the congressman quickly turned the talk sexual. Soon, he invited her to share a hotel room. “What I keep thinking back to is how lucky I am that I didn’t go to that hotel,” Albrecht told CBS News reporter Nancy Cordes.

Ally Sammarco, a former staffer, said she and Swalwell started direct messaging on social media in 2021, and the congressman asked her to contact him on Snapchat. Then he sent her a picture of his penis.

Left-wing “influencer” Cheyenne Hunt detailed Swalwell’s sexcapades in an online video, at Sammarco’s urging, and said she was “immediately slammed with DMs from other women who said, ‘I have a story to tell’” about Swalwell. Swalwell resigned from his congressional seat on Monday—the same day as “moderate” Republican Tony Gonzales—and dropped out of the 2026 California governor’s race, where he was the odds-on favorite to win. If elected, he had planned to “go on the offense” against Republicans by charging ICE agents with state and/or local crimes as a form of harassment.

Swalwell’s alleged victims say his pattern of abuse would likely have continued, as well.

“Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign [non-disclosure agreements] so they don’t speak up, right? And when I was 19, he tried hitting on me,” said Hunt.

“I think we just prevented another 30 to 40 years of him harming people, if he were in Congress,” Albrecht told CBS Mornings.

To make matters worse, the Fake News media apparently knew all about Swalwell’s abuse of women but did nothing about it.

Politico knew of multiple allegations of Swalwell’s sexual harassment seven years ago.

The Beltway website even had a story teed-up and ready to pin on the Democratic presidential hopeful in 2019 in order to force him out of the race…but it never posted the article.

“By the time they were reportedly ready to publish this story, Swalwell had dropped out of the 2020 presidential race,” wrote the conservative editor Michael Vespa at Townhall.com—but the story has bipartisan confirmation. “The energy disappeared to potentially take him out,” wrote Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo on X. “The victims if they were even willing to go on the record never did. He slithered back to his safe house seat.

“December 2025 was too early to take down Swalwell,” he said, so “we had to wait til his paperwork was ALL IN running for governor March 2026, so the head of the snake could be chopped off and he had no safe house seat to slither back to this time.”

But the only reason his House seat was “safe” was because media outlets like Politico and real politicos like Trujillo covered up the allegations.

One person who would not be surprised by the alleged crimes or their cover-up is President Donald Trump, who finally weighed in on the matter as only he could.

“He’s a sleazebag,” said President Trump. “Always has been. He’s a long timer, and he’s a bad guy. I don’t know anything about the charges, but he’s a bad guy.”

One of Swalwell’s now-former colleagues had some good advice for the West Coast horndog. “Go to church. Find Jesus,” suggested Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. “Why is everyone so horny around here?”

“Congress has paid out more than $17.2 million over the last 20 years to cover 268 settlements on Capitol Hill, according to the Office of Compliance,” said a June 2024 report from the House of Representatives. “In 2002 and 2007 those tallies topped several million dollars.”

If campaign donors aren’t paying to facilitate congressmen possibly raping staffers and strangers, the U.S. taxpayer is picking up the cost of sweeping the allegations under the rug.

Everyone should be outraged and demand more of their media.

The Horn can pledge that we’ve never covered up a scandal for political gain, and we never will. We always bring you the full story and let you decide.

Do you think Swalwell is guilty? Should his donors demand their money back? Should the media play favorites by suppressing vital information?

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”