Disgraced former congressman Eric Swalwell complained as he resigned that he had been denied “due process.”
Not really. He simply lost all of his political support amid horrific allegations of sexual assault.
But at long last, Swalwell has at least finally acknowledged that due process rights exist. These are the rights that he and other Democrats have denied to their political enemies for more than a decade.
Eric Swalwell questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Getty Images The left’s attack on due process began, ironcally, with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. When a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict former police officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown in 2014, Al Sharpton, the New York Times, and others attacked the grand jury system itself.
It did not matter that Brown had attacked Wilson, even reaching inside Wilson’s police car and trying to take his gun, then charging toward him on the street.
According to the left, even the flimsy protections that grand juries offer to defendants were too generous for police to enjoy.
Then came Donald Trump, and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Lonna Drewes said she thought she was friends with the congressman but claimed he spiked her drink before choking and sexually assaulting her in West Hollywood. REUTERS Democrats made up a hoax about Russian “collusion,” and forced the appointment of a special counsel. The late Robert Mueller took the job, even though he knew there was no evidence of wrongdoing
Innocent people’s lives were ruined as partisan prosecutors tried to bring down the president.
The attack on due process rights intensified with the Senate confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Judge Kavanagh had coasted through his hearing, but was then hauled back before the Senate to face unsubstantiated accusations by Stanford professor Christine Blasey Ford.
Not content with Ford’s uncorroborated claims from decades before, Democrats began hurling all kinds of sensational allegations, including gang rape, at the respected conservative judge.
Swalwell was among those who declared Kavanaugh guilty by accusation alone.
The following year, Swalwell, who was on the House Intelligence Committee, was part of Adam Schiff’s impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
The entire affair was cooked up by Schiff, who held closed-door hearings in the Capitol basement. He prevented Republicans from asking questions about the so-called “whistleblower,” and auditioned the witnesses, making sure that only anti-Trump voices would appear in public hearings. He and Jerry Nadler also barred Republicans from calling their own witnesses.
Swalwell later returned as a House manager for Trump’s second impeachment trial, an unconstitutional farce in which Democrats doctored evidence, omitting key parts of the president’s Jan. 6 speech in which he urged supporters to protest peacefully.
Lately, Swalwell joined fellow Democrats in sensationalizing the Epstein files, berating FBI director Kash Patel for supposedly hiding information that, Swalwell insinuated, implicated President Trump.
So when Swalwell complains that his due process rights have been violated, the best that can be said is that he is something of an expert on the subject.
Like Robespierre in the French Revolution, who was ultimately destroyed by the Terror he had unleashed against others, Swalwell has learned his own lesson a little too late for sympathy.
