Apparently, to go by recently unveiled testimony from at least one or perhaps two women, Eric Swallwell may have Bill Cosby-ed his victims.
Speaking as a former imbiber, nobody drinks themselves into a state of total black-out oblivion without ANY memories of sexual activity. It has to be a Mickey Finn-type thing, such as when Kim Novak told Scott Feinberg that she believes she was covertly drugged by either Tony Curtis or Sammy Davis back in ‘57.
I didn’t suspect this as I found it beyond the logical pale that Swalwell would jeopardize his career as blatantly as he’d been accused of doing.
Not to mention the seemingly selective recollections of his victims (see Megyn Kelly clip below) plus the much broader criteria for sexual assault these days, which is incontestable compared to 15 or 20 years ago or further back.
And so I under-reported the Swalwell situation last weekend. I under-interpreted it. He’d obviously sought to sexually manipulate X number of younger women but I couldn’t imagine that he’d been using Cosby-level methods. (Even JFK hadn’t resorted to Mickey Finn-ing their drinks.)
How could a married father of two and a serious Congressional legislator behave like a flat-out beast? Issues of basic decency aside, how could he subject himself and his all-important career to an absurd level of risk? How could he have been so thoughtless and reckless? So self-destructive?
A woman named Lonna Drewes at a news conference just now accused Eric Swalwell of drugging her drink and sexually assaulting her. Here's part of her statement. pic.twitter.com/6A2gTmtA3S
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2026