Democratic Party Strategist Says POLITICO Had Swalwell Story in 2019, Dropped Ithttps://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/16/now-you-tell-usdemocratic-party-strategist-says-politico-had-swalwell-story-in-2019-dropped-it-n3813968But, according to Michael Trujillo, a widely quoted Democratic political strategist in California, POLITICO was preparing a story in 2019 on Eric Swalwell, but promptly dropped it when Swalwell dropped out of the Democratic presidential race.
Yep. Exactly the sort of behavior you would expect from what Ed calls the "protection racket media," and what I call the Pravda Media.
One note on the Swalwell stuff - (this isn’t confirmed) but a reporter with Politico was working on verifying the rumors on Swalwell when he was running for President. (he’s no longer with the publication) Two days before he was scheduled to sit down with this reporter Swalwell dropped out of the race. The energy disappeared to potentially take him out, 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 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. Hate the strategy fine, but for folks unsure if this would work, we had to make sure he couldn’t get away like he did in 2020.
The Dem Party "needed" Swillwell to attack-dog Trump, so Swillwell didn't get Me-Too'ed.
