April 13th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8773-8138-1187-7381-3811. Well, the breaking news in the last few minutes is this. Eric Swalwell is right. Eric Swalwell is resigning from the House of Representatives. And I think he’s resigning from the House because he knows otherwise he would be expelled. And so, uh, he’s not going to run for governor. He is now expelled from the House of Representatives. There’s an ethics investigation that may end that. There’s an investigation in New York over whether he violated, um, tax, uh, laws there, uh, with the illegal alien from Brazil who worked for him. And, uh, there’s no investigations taking place on whether he raped somebody and committed other sexual acts of a criminal nature. And so he just put out this statement. I’m deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes and judgments I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make. All, uh, Right. So he’s been lawyered. And what he’s trying to say is, okay, maybe I was handsy, maybe I cheated on my wife, but I didn’t rape anybody. That’s what he’s worried about. I. I’m aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members. Expelling anyone in Congress without due process within days of an allegation being made is wrong. But it’s also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress. I will work with my staff in the coming days to ensure they are able, in my absence, to serve the needs of the good people of the 14th congressional district. That’s kind of a weird lawyered statement, if you will. So he’ll be willing to admit to certain things, and he will not be willing to admit to criminal things. That’s what I expect will take place here. He’s been lawyered up. So let’s go through some of this. First of all, this guy lived a life of abusing women. Honestly, of abusing his wife by cheating on her. Uh, and not, apparently, once. These are the allegations and other acts of abuse of other women. He’s a real pig, a real scumbag, and maybe worse. I wonder how many of these people are in Congress. You know, they have that big, big sort of slush fund where they make these deals and they cover them up. And, uh, there was a vote some time ago in the house and over 300 members voted not to make the names available of those who’ve participated in that sort of thing. But when you watch these people now who come out and attack Kavanaugh without any evidence whatsoever and so forth, or attack ICE or talk about Donald Trump and all the rest, and then you see who some of these people really are. Now, this came out a few days ago. Four women detail horrific sexual assault misconduct claims against Swalwell, including ex staffer who alleges he raped her. New York Post, Annie Gause. Four women have accused married Eric Swalwell of horrific acts of sexual assault and misconduct, including a former staffer who claims he raped her. The California governor candidate. His campaign was hanging by thread Friday. Well, it’s not hanging anymore. It’s over. One of the women, a former staffer, claimed he raped her when she was drunk and left her bruised and bleeding during the alleged 2024 attack. She M also claimed she woke up naked next to him in a hotel room in 2019 after a heavy night of drinking and felt physically like they had had sex. Now, of course, the defense there will be. Wait a minute. That’s 2019. And then you accused me of something. 2024. Why didn’t you leave me? I don’t care what the defense is. The fact is this guy’s a pig. Another woman who said she first met Swalwell online alleged that she also awoke next to him in a hotel after a drunken night out, adding he allegedly kissed her and touched her leg without consent. And social media influencer Ali Samarco. Who are these? All these influencers claimed he had sent her nudes on Snapchat after they started talking about politics on X. So he knows if in fact he did it, and he probably did that. There’s no escaping that. Kind of like wiener. Remember wiener, Mr. Producer? Oh, yeah. Kobe hall remembers Wiener. I think over there at Media. In fact, if you take a really close look at Kobe Hall, I know who was Kobe Hall. But if you cut a close look at him and Swalwell, uh, there is a resemblance. Physical resemblance. Of course. I would never accuse Kobe hall of being a pervert or pedophile or anything of that kind. Or a woman abuser. I don’t believe he is Mr. Producer. Do you believe he is? No. No way. Democrats came out in force on Friday demanding Swalwell pull out of the governor’s race, including Nancy Pelosi. Now, Pelosi was sort of the mob queen who protected this guy from Fang Fang. Fang Fang, Hakeem Jeffries, Peter Aguilar Catherine Clark all issued a joint statement demanding Swalwell immediately end his campaign. The California Teachers association called him to quit. So all the lefties now trying to cover their backsides, that’s what they’re doing. Now there’s this guy from Arizona, uh, who’s best friends with Eric Swalwell. He’s said to be a pig, too. Now, I don’t know if he’s a pig to this extent, but, uh, he’s said to have. Well, to have cheated on his wife. Now, do I know that that’s a fact? I hear it is, but I don’t personally know. The fallout from accusations of sexual misconduct against Representative Eric Swalwell may affect more than just him, says the New York Post, as some are raising questions about his best friend. Senator Ruben Galleo, Democrat of Arizona. And in his staunch defense of his disgraced congressman, Swalwell on Monday expressed his intention to resign from Congress. That’s today, following damning allegations that he raped and sent nude pictures to younger women, including staffers. That’s like that schmuck Gonzalez from Texas. They ought to kick his ass out of Congress, too, quite frankly. I mean, I think this is the tip of the iceberg here. Swalwell had been facing an investigation by the House Ethics Committee prior to the resignation. Galeo, whom, um, Swalwell once described as my best friend in the world, leapt the Swalwell’s defense as disturbing rumors circulated that the East Bay congressman had sexually harassed staffers and asked him to sign NDAs non disclosure agreements. When you are in first place is when they target you. Eric is a fighter and he will win, the governor’s race gala said last Tuesday. Now he’s changed his stripe since then. His Democrat influencers spread allegations that a shocking story about Swalwell was about to drop. Gallejo cast doubt on their claims on Friday after a San Francisco Chronicle reported that Swalwell had sexually assaulted a former staffer while drunk. Congress, uh, Senator Gallejo made an abrupt U turn and rescinded his endorsement. I regret having come to his defense on social media prior to knowing all the information. I’m equally as shocked and upset about what has transpired. He said he has, um, who has been floated, I.e. gallego, as a potential 2028 contender for the White. Are you kidding me? Can’t we do better than this slop? And he was torched for a sudden about face about his pal Swalwell. Two have been close political and personal friends and have ties. Leo chaired Swalwell’s 2020 presidential bid and the two at campaign events together. Swalwell reportedly attended Galeo’s wedding in Puerto Rico in 2021, and the two were heavily criticized for accepting an $85,000 trip to Doha, Qatar. Everybody goes to Qatar, Mr. Producer. Yeah. Posing shirtless together while riding on camels, The Arizona Democrat allegedly spent $13,000 on campaign funds on Fine Raiser, an AI, uh, startup launched by Swalwell. Swalwell’s pitching of his startup, the congressional members have brought up conflict of interest concerns. Galeo also gave 8,000 to Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign. Uh, he was also chairman for Swalwell’s 2020 presidential campaign. An important question everyone should be asking, what did Senator Ruben Galleon know and when did he know it? Wrote Democratic influencer Yashir Ali on X. This word influencer has taken off, hasn’t it, Mr. Producer? And most of them don’t know who the hell these people are. The idea that Ruben Galileo didn’t know this was going on is ridiculous. Added Republican operative Matt Whitlock, the public is now scrutinizing Gallego’s own history with women. He reportedly served divorce papers to his pregnant ex wife and later got into a relationship with his current wife, Sydney Barron, who was 25 when they met. Swal attended their wedding. That’s kind of a weird way of putting it. So his wife is pregnant, he serves divorce papers on her, then he marries this 25 year old woman. Swalwell continues to insist the allegations are false. Okay, is there more? I fear there is. This is from, uh, msn.com and we know they’re always truthful, but we know it’s truthful because it’s them. Regurgitating what Fox News reports, California reported, claims Eric Swalwell’s conduct was known raises questions about local support. Now, if Eric Swalwell’s conduct was known, why didn’t they report it, Mr. Producer? East Bay political journalist and author Steve Tavares said in a Saturday social media post that allegations surrounding Eric Swalwell’s behavior toward women were widely known among local officials shortly after he entered Congress in 2013. So this has been going on for years, ladies and gentlemen, and the Democrats knew it and they kept it secret. And then they backed him for Congress and they kept it secret then. And then he was a big public figure and they kept it secret still. And he ran for president in the Democrat primary for about 14 minutes, and they kept it secret. And then he wants to run for governor. And up till recently, they kept it secret again. Shortly after Being elected to Congress in 2013, his behavior towards women was known by all levels of local government in the Alameda County Democrat Party, Tavares wrote. Well, did Tavares know about it? I tried repeatedly to get the stories out. I can’t force women to speak out. When they chose not to, I didn’t push. I also knew that Swalwell was known to threaten litigation. Swalwell faces calls to resign and of course he is. Tavares also emphasized his long standing coverage of Swalwell. I’ve covered Eric Swalwell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council. Didn’t get it twist. Don’t get it twisted. Nobody has been more critical of Swalwell over the years. In a separate April 6 edition of his East Bay Insiders newsletter, Tavares outlined that he described as challenges facing Swalwell closer to home, particularly within Alameda County Democratic circles. Let’s be honest, this was a cover up of Democrats, elected Democrats, Democrat operatives and the media. And the media. Let’s be honest. For a candidate who could plausibly contend for governor in the nation’s most powerful state, Eric Swalwell’s base has supported almost strikingly thin, Tavares wrote. The reasons are both ideological and personal. Despite his high profile opposition to President Trump, m many Democratic insiders in Alameda county do not view Swalwell as a reliable progressive. Ooh, he’s not a reliable leftist. Over time, his position, support of law enforcement, past rhetoric on border security, unwavering backing of Israel. It placed him out of step with the prevailing politics of the deep blue East Bay. So like so many Democrats, he’s a chameleon and he changed positions. Now he’s a bomb thrower. The left, well, now he’s got his own problems. Early in his congressional career, Swalwell, unseated two well regarded local figures, Pete Stark, who was a nut, and later Ellen Corbett. Moves that, while politically successful, left lingering resentment. Well, look, lingering resentment. But nobody, uh, nobody pulled the plug on this guy, did they, Mr. Producer? Except the women who came forward. And there’s a lot of suspicion now because two Republicans are leading in this, what they call, I think jungle pac, which they set up. The two top. The two top vote getters run off against each other for governor. That way they blew out the Republican Party. The problem is there were too many Democrats splitting the vote among themselves. So it literally helps the Democrats when Swalwell goes out. You understand what I’m saying, America? More when I return.

Segment 2
You know, you read about a guy like this and you think if he wasn’t a congressman, he’d probably be in prison. I’m not kidding. A piece from Politico. Now, Politico is a sleazy operation, but they’re reporting on a sleazy guy. So there you go. House ethic panel opens Eric Swalwell investigation. It’s looking at sexual misconduct allegations. I believe once you resign or you lose office or whatever, um, that stops. That stops. But they said Monday, they said today it’s investigating Swalwell facing charges and allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. And, uh, these allegations were first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle and then cnn. And off to the races it went. We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
All right. Okay, here we be. So health ethics committee today was launching an ethics investigation, but that’ll die now because the man’s resigning. And so now he knows his political career is dead, he probably knows his marriage is dead, and now he’s just trying to figure out how to stay out of prison. Politico, which really is a nasty piece of work, but nonetheless for a nasty guy. The whisper network. They caught up to Eric Swalwell. The whisper network. So all these people are whispering about this guy, but nobody’s speaking out. Except now these women have come out and I want to get into that in a moment. Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far he got. Hmm. How about that? Now who runs California? The Democrats. This is the problem with with corrupt one party rule. Five months before, Ariella Fodder, better known on social media as Mrs. Frazzled, helped set in motion the downfall of Representative Eric Swall while she was singing his praises on Instagram. You know how I love to tell you when I meet a politician who acts like a normal human and not a robot. She posted the day after California Democrat launched his campaign for governor. Eric is that. It was a fairly enidan post for Fodor, a prodigious professional poster, but it drew an unusual response. Three people privately warning her that Swalwell was no good. Well, I would have warned them that Swalwell is no good. And I didn’t even know all this stuff Mr. Producer. Those messages were the embers of a firestorm that in short order incinerated Swalwell’s campaign and is now engulfing what remains of his political career. He has no political career. Swalwell suspended his campaign Sunday and of course he’s resigning from Congress. We now heard about an hour ago, days after multiple news outlets reported on allegations he sexually harassed women, had sexual relationships with subordinate staff, and in two cases committed sexual assault. That would be rape. Swalwell has denied accusations he had non consensual sex with anybody. Excuse me. Though he acknowledged personal failings, the broad contours of Swalwell’s alleged behavior, if not the specifics, did not come as a surprise to many working in and around politics, especially in Washington. Here I have a question. We have aggregation sites, right, Mr. Producer, like Mediaite or the Drudge Report or Media Matters or these other left wing sites. They’re gossip sites. They basically work with Democrats most of the time. Um, they all talk to each other. The media do. A site calls itself Mediaite. It’s watching the media, it’s reporting on the media. They go to social events, they go to cafes together, they put out lists, they do all this. How did MediaITE not know about this? Or the Drudge Report not know about this? Or Media Matters not know about? How’s that possible? If there’s a whispering campaign and it involves Democrats, and these are Democrat institutions, Dan Abrams is a Democrat and the rest of them are Democrats, how is it possible? Seriously, Swalwell suspended his campaign, blah, blah, blah. Now, the broad contours of his alleged behavior, they should say misbehavior. If not, the specifics did not come as a surprise to many working in around politics, especially in Washington. The 45 year old cable news darling and Trump antagonist had developed a reputation for unsavory and sometimes unwanted behavior toward women. Well, did CNN know about this? Did msnlc? Did they know about it? Those warnings were shared in whisper networks, but rarely traveled outside the circle of, ah, political insiders. I just find that incredibly hard to believe. I think they viewed this guy as a bomb thrower against Trump, a bomb thrower against Republicans. I really do. And so they gave him a pass. That is until Swalwell sought a promotion to lead the nation’s most populous state and a pair of content creators worked to spill that open secret into public view. His breakneck, um, undoing is a testament to the striking power of a new media ecosystem in which influencers with huge audiences can not only publicize politicians but control the political conversation. This is so overrated. It’s not even funny. It’s so overstated. It’s not even funny. It may be that in this case that they were able to do what they did, but the influencers certainly on the right have no influence whatsoever. Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, they’re being mocked. Alex Jones, you know, Bannon Fuentes, they’re not even on the right. They even deny being on the right. They even deny being MAGA. But they are mocked. They are humiliated. Now online, they have no influence whatsoever. None. And the people who have defended them or promoting them and have grifted off of them, they’re going to go down with them. That’s the truth. On paper, it was a lopsided matchup. Swalwell had a national profile and support from many of the Democrat party apparatus. Fodder and another content creator, Cheyenne Hunt, along with behind the scenes help from Hunt’s friend, a woman who alleged she had been personally harassed by Swell and still remains anonymous, had their keyboards and iPhone cameras. It’s not that these onliners are so influential. It’s that the other media didn’t do their job. It’s that newspaper business, TV business. They didn’t do their job. Mediaite, the Drudge Report, they didn’t do their job. People were saying, they’re paid. This is backed by a billionaire. This is Roger Stone. This is MAGA. Fodder said in the end, it was three women in a group chat trying everything in our power. It really has just been us. Swalwell, uh, did not respond to requests for a comment on a detailed list of questions. This account is based on 20 interviews with Campaign staffers, content creators, lawmakers and people from major labor and business organizations. Many were granted anonymity to speak candidly about private discussions. Together, they tell the story of Swalwell’s political implosion and a political establishment not confronting its own enabling his rise. I doubt they have any circumspection. They’re utterly unethical. We’re willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked 1,000%, said a veteran Sacramento lobbyist who work with interests backing Swalwell. Do people see what they want to see or hear what they want to hear or not ask questions they didn’t want the answers to? A thousand percent. And that’s not just in Sacramento. That’s in Washington, D.C. where you have this horse relationship, this incestuous relationship between the media and the Democrats. Let’s be honest. There was ubiquitous cable news Hits and prominent roles in President Trump’s to impeachment. Swalwell had made himself a national figure in political and Democrat politics. But when he launched his campaign for governor on November 20, he was essentially stranger in California’s political circles. No, he wasn’t. They just finished saying Mr. Producer, did they not, about the whisper campaign in Sacramento. So he’s not a stranger there. And this guy Tavares, who’s a local reporter in his district, he knew about him. He didn’t say it was a secret either. So what are they talking about? He was so unfamiliar with his state’s capital city that while gazing at the view of the Capitol dome, um, from a near nearby high rise, he pointed at the construction for the sprawling 1.1 billion state office overall alongside it, and asked if they were building condos, according to someone who heard the comment. But as he courted political insiders, Swalwell’s blank slate became the pitch. People could see what they wanted to see. To progressive labor unions, he was an anti Trump warrior. To business groups, he was a moderate ex prosecutor, his campaign strategist would acknowledge. To lobbyists, he was light on policy, but argued that just meant he was still malleable. What a phony article here from Politico. We just didn’t know who he was. In California, there’s something for everyone. Pitch arrived precisely when Sacramento power players were feeling especially gloomy about the governor’s race. Many had waited to see if Kamala Harris would jump in, and then pinned their hopes on Alex Padilla. But both opting out of the race threw the contest wide open. Now it was November, and practically none of the major interests had chosen a candidate. Operatives were getting antsy. The top three contenders, Swalwell, Katie, uh, Porter and Tom Steyer. Three stooges, I might add, were all relative outsiders to the insular world of the Capitol. Swalwell relied on two of his House colleagues, Representative Adam Gray and Jimmy Gomez, who both served in the state legislature, to introduce him around town. Gradually, key members of Gavin Newsom’s circle joined his campaign. Oh, Gavin. And the governor’s chief consulting firm, Bearstar Strategy, stood up. A pro Swalwell independent expenditure campaign, Newsom never endorsed in the contest, but having his team on board boosted Swalwell’s credibility. But as Swalwell was cruising into the upper echelons of the political class, he was dogged by a social media post that Michael Trujillo, a longtime political consultant, had dashed off in early December. I guess Swalwell can enjoy today, but folks know he Slept with many of his interns while he was married, sexually harassed others while engaged, has a ton of weird texts late at night, saved on former interns phones. Still, he gets the will he have to answer for his sick behavior in the campaign? Right. Endorse at your own peril. You have been fully warned. Just doing my public service today, he wrote. Okay, so he writes that, right? So what media outlet picked up on that? What media outlet picked up on that? What aggregation outlet picked up on that Media, uh, the Drudge Report. Media matters. No, because they’re all Democrats, they’re all leftists. Oh, they’ll throw a, you know, a Republican a, uh, bone every now and then, but that’s, that’s who they are. Swalwell had been on Trujillo’s radar since 2017 after he said he heard a story which has not been independently confirmed by Politico, but a friend of a friend who had a negative experience with the congressman. Throughout the years he had collected similar accounts, especially during Swalwell’s short lived presidential campaign. In 2019 when Swalwell went back to bring 1,435members of Congress, he, he found women who’d been willing to talk lost interest in sharing their stories. But now Swalwell was seeking a more powerful position. And what people have said rightly is the Democrat feel for governor has too many candidates. So why would the media pick up on it? Now this guy who wrote the Post in December, it was out there, these so called influencers, these three women, they’ve been pushing for months. Why now, Mr. Producer? Because it serves the Democrat party in California, does it not? Trujillo’s Post went viral, getting more than 140,000 views. And it caught the attention of the Swalwell campaign which sent him a cease and desist letter. Trujillo complied, but figured it was inevitable that Swalwell’s behavior would come to light. I thought, holy s. Everyone knows this is a thing. This will be the easiest story ever. Trujillo said he continued to pitch reporters on what he knew. I would like to know which reporters he pitched. Swalwell’s allies were quick to discredit the source as Trujillo is known for his social media bomb throwing. He’s also a longtime aide to Antonio Verrigay, uh, who is running for governor, was working on an outside committee to support the former LA mayor. So the rumors circulated enough that power brokers were compelled to bring them up to Swalwall directly. Now perverts and pedophiles and rapists and Women abusers don’t normally confess on the spot, do they, Mr. Producer? I wouldn’t think he must have said no. In endorsement interviews and over meals, he was asked if there was anything to the chatter, anything in the past that could damaged not only him, but his supporters. Swell insisted there was not. What an arrogant sob. People are asking him questions. He’s running for governor. He doesn’t even step out. Then that’s pretty shocking. Swalwell insisted there was not. He told people he was one of Trump’s favorite targets. Surely if there were any skeletons in his closet, the president’s MAGA legion would have found them. Mm mhm, mm, mhm, mm mhm. I asked Eric a lot of questions and people that were close to him questions. Is there anything you don’t have to tell me what? Said Ian Kildaron, a former state lawmaker who ended his own campaign for governor March and endorsed Swalwell. I told him there are no secrets in politics, and if there’s something, it will come out. He was indignant and adamant. Swalwell’s campaign aides encouraged Sacramento insiders to ask him directly about the rumors. Surrogates and staffers amplified his denials, passing the message along. There’s nothing to worry about. Allegations circulating are just rival campaigns looking to drag Swalwell down. Did Politico break this story? Mr. No, I think they should be writing a story about themselves. They’re called Politico, for God’s sakes. They want you to believe that they know everything. Politics. More when I return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
All right, continue. The Sacramento insiders use politics. Oh, by the way, we have breaking news. Another one bites the dust here. Bear with me. My wife just sent me this. One second. Tony Gonzalez. Remember the guy I mentioned at the beginning of the show? Another sleaze ball out of Texas, a Republican. He’s announced that he’s resigning now. So that’s two. There’s a couple more that need to go. Tony Gonzalez said he plans to resign from the House Tuesday, weeks after he admitted to having an affair with a staff member. That staff member committed suicide. There’s a season for everything, and God has a plan for us all, he said. Oh, they hide behind God. Seriously. Come in, come in. Hold on. Let me silence my, uh, laptop here or you’ll be hearing that all night. And also, I’m going to continue this. This is important, this lease crap that’s going on in the House of Representatives, probably in the Senate too. So I wasn’t planning on it, but this is going to pour over to the next hour as well. I want you to remember, folks, Nancy Pelosi was the one pushing Swalwell for governor. Nancy Pelosi was the one who protected him when the fang fang fang fang thing came out and insisted he should stay on the intelligence committee. I want to remember this now. She knows all about Sacramento. She was in control of so much coming out of California. Now you know damn well she had to heard of this. I’ll be right back.