{"id":90958,"date":"2026-04-14T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/swalwell-accuser-he-raped-me-he-choked-me-i-thought-i-died\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:43:04","slug":"swalwell-accuser-he-raped-me-he-choked-me-i-thought-i-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/swalwell-accuser-he-raped-me-he-choked-me-i-thought-i-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Swalwell Accuser: He Raped Me, He Choked Me, &#8220;I Thought I Died&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> At a press conference in Beverly Hills, Lonna Drewes told a harrowing story of allegedly being drugged, raped and choked by outgoing Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). <a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/post\/another-woman-accusing-rep-eric-swalwell-sexual-misconduct-speak-beverly-hills-california\/18884790\/\">According to ABC News<\/a>, Drewes says she was a model and owned a fashion software company when she met Congressman Eric Swalwell in 2018.  &#8220;When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn&#8217;t move my arms or my body. He raped me. He choked me and while he was choking me, I lost consciousness and I thought I died. I did not consent to any sexual activity, although I did not undergo a rape kit,&#8221; Drewes said.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONNA DREWES: In 2018, while I was living and working as a model in Beverly Hills and I also owned a fashion software company, I had contact with Eric Swalwell on three separate occasions after meeting him socially. He offered me connections to further my software company and I also had an interest in local politics.  He invited me to two public events. I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant. He was my friend. On the third occasion, I believe he drugged my drink. I only had one glass of wine. We were supposed to go to a political event and he said he needed to get paperwork from his hotel room.  When I arrived at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn&#8217;t move my arms or my body. He raped me. He choked me and while he was choking me, I lost consciousness and I thought I died. I did not consent to any sexual activity, although I did not undergo a rape kit.   At the time, I disclosed the assault to the people closest to me. I also recorded these events in my handwritten calendar. The assault and its impact were later documented during my therapy sessions at a sexual assault center in Connecticut. It had a profound impact on my mental health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/14\/swalwell_accuser_he_raped_me_he_choked_me_i_thought_i_died.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a press conference in Beverly Hills, Lonna Drewes told a harrowing story of allegedly being drugged, raped and choked by outgoing Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). According to ABC News, Drewes says she was a model and owned a fashion software company when she met Congressman Eric Swalwell in 2018. &#8220;When I arrived at his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6246,8839,4445,4804,24211,2026],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}