Karoline Leavitt: Quite Plausible That Many Democrats On Capitol Hill Knew About Swalwell’s Illegal Behavior
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at Wednesday’s briefing talked about now-former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) alleged sexual behavior.
JACK POSOBIEC, HUMAN EVENTS: And one more for Karoline, as well as the administration in general, if I may. This past Saturday, I published a video of now-former Representative Eric Swalwell in bed. As the President said in Las Vegas, while Eric Swalwell was in Las Vegas in this video, I’m told, according to Geotagging, 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 wanted 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. WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITT: 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.
