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Woman says Eric Swalwell drugged, raped and choked her: 'I thought I died' 04/14/26(Tue)19:19:09 No.1506253
Woman says Eric Swalwell drugged, raped and choked her: 'I thought I died' 04/14/26(Tue)19:19:09 No.1506253
Woman says Eric Swalwell drugged, raped and choked her: 'I thought I died' Anonymous 04/14/26(Tue)19:19:09 No.1506253 [Reply]▶
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/woman-says-eric-swalwell-dru gged-raped-choked-thought-died-rcna 331693
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is facing a new sexual assault allegation from a woman who said he drugged, raped and choked her in a California hotel room.
"He raped me, and he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness," the woman, Lonna Drewes, said Tuesday at a press conference with her attorneys of the alleged 2018 encounter. "I thought I died."
An attorney for Swalwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has previously admitted to making “mistakes” but has called accusations of sexual assault “flat false.”
Drewes said she had contact with Swalwell on a few separate occasions and that the first two encounters were friendly. "He offered me connections to further my software company," she said.
On the third encounter, she said she believes he "drugged my drink."
She said he lured her to his hotel room by telling her he needed to get some paperwork before they went to a political event.
By the time she got there, she said she couldn't move - and Swalwell then raped and choked her.
“I would never have engaged in a consensual sexual encounter with Eric Swalwell,” she said.
The encounter had "a profound impact on my mental health," she said. "I did not want to live anymore."
She said she did not have any contact with Swalwell afterwards. She did not file a police report at the time, but that she "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."
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>>1506394
>https://www.businessinsider.com/e-jean-carroll-trump-trial-svu-episod e-rape-bergdorf-goodman-2023-5
>E. Jean Carroll wasn't surprised 'Law & Order: SVU' aired Bergdorf Goodman rape scene 7 years before she made Trump allegations
>"It tickled me to death," Carroll told CNN in 2019 after the "SVU" clip surfaced. "It's a great, huge coincidence, but it is a magnificent one, I must say."
You would think that rape would be a really traumatic event that sticks with you forever, but she seems to be doing pretty well.
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>>1506402
>Show uses real new york locations
>Sexual assaults happen all the time in dressing rooms for obvious reasons (Woman alone, clothes already off, isolated location)
>"Oh but the idea of this happening at a famous New York store in real life is too similar for it to be a coincidence!"
Oh and hate to burst your bubble but that wasn't even what happened in the episode. It was literally just a bit the villain of the week used as an example of a rape fantasy.
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There’s usually a rape in every episode of SVU and there’s been 590 episodes and it’s set in Manhattan. There’s only so many ways to rape so it stands to reason that there’s a good possibility that there will be similar rape in the show to what a previously raped viewer had experienced when they were raped
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>>1506421
SVU/CSI writers are hacks that either copy the general details of a criminal complaint, pop culture ruling, or something from their own imagination. They need a new episode every week and "truck stop bathroom", "internet incel livestream" and "prom night at makout point" were all already episodes.
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>>1506384
His own words for one.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegatio ns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey _Epstein
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>>1506567
BY LARRY NEUMEISTER, JENNIFER PELTZ AND MICHAEL R. SISAK
Published 1:00 AM GMT+1, May 10, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was raped, finding Trump responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. The judgment adds to Trump’s legal woes and offers vindication to Carroll, whose allegations had been mocked and dismissed by Trump for years.
She nodded as the verdict was announced in a New York City federal courtroom only three hours after deliberations had begun, then hugged supporters and smiled through tears. As the courtroom cleared, Carroll could be heard laughing and crying.
Jurors also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll over her allegations. Trump did not attend the civil trial and was absent when the verdict was read.
Trump immediately lashed out on his social media site, claiming that he does not know Carroll and referring to the verdict as “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.” He promised to appeal.
Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, shook hands with Carroll and hugged her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, after the verdict was announced. Outside the courthouse, he told reporters the jury’s rejection of the rape claim while finding Trump responsible for sexual abuse was “perplexing” and “strange.”
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>>1506563
>lol it's not that she didn't remember the exact date, it's that she has no idea when it allegedly happened.
I've been by a family member's bedside as they died from cancer and I have no recollection of what year they died or what time of day.
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>>1506568
>Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
http://archive.today/2023.07.19-172557/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-j udge-rape/
>Kaplan said New York’s legal definition of “rape” is “far narrower” than the word is understood in “common modern parlance.”
>The former requires forcible, unconsented-to penetration with one’s penis. But he said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for — forced digital penetration — meets a more common definition of rape.
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>>1506627
>>no, there is no evidence that Trump raped Carroll
What consession? There was a lot of evidence presented at trial. Victim testimony is evidence for one. Trump confused her for his ex wife. Trump has boasted about sexually assaulting people in the way he was accused of doing in this trial.
>>but the judge said that other people think he raped her!
>lmao how much of an NPC do you have to be to think that this counts as evidence?
That's not about evidence, that's about explaining the definition of rape.
And the judge said this while dimissing a defamation lawsuit that was calling trump a rapist. The common parlance version of terms does not always match up to the exact legal ones.
It's not random trivia the definition of rape varies from place to place. It's not like one single person had a different definition. Some states do consider forced penetration with an object to be rape, but new york only considered that sexual assault at that time.
And that currently meets the definition of rape in new york, though the law is not ex post facto obviously: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/new-york-rape-definiti on-expanded-bill-kathy-hochul-e-jea n-carroll-donald-trump
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>>1506705
https://youtu.be/yygkF6zdMvA?
What did you think of her interview on Anderson Cooper?
I found it undermined her case. When she was making comments like "I think most people think that Rape is sexy" or "I wasn't forced". It seemed like she was acting strangely
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>>1506850
She did not say "I wasn't forced". Here's the transcript:
https://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/24/acd.01.html
Why are you leaving out the full context of the comments that you quote?
> "I think most people think that Rape is sexy"
You leave out the prior sentence and the sentence afterwards.
>This was not—this was not sexual. It just hurt. ... I think most people think of rape as being sexy. They think of the fantasies
Even on it's own it's clearly talking about what other people think, not what she thinks. With further context it's obvious She's contrasting the painful reality of something to the unrealistic fantasies people have.
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>>1506766
No, I didn't say that was the best evidence. I literally pointed out there's a lot of other evidence too. I didn't give an exhaustive list.
You can look at this article for a brief overview of some things presented at trial:
https://law.temple.edu/aer/2023/05/15/evidence-advocacy-and-carroll-v- trump/
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>>1506563
Trump didn't remember what year he was married to his wives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ex-wives-access-hollywoo d-big-fat-hoax-highlights-trumps-de position-e-rcna82878
>While Trump's attorneys have hammered Carroll for her inability to remember the exact year of the alleged attack, Trump had problems recalling some major milestones in his life, including when and how long he was married to each of his three wives.
>He said he and his first wife were married in "about '78 to the early 90s." The couple married in 1977 and divorced in 1990.
>Asked when he married Maples, Trump said, "I'd have to get the exact dates for you. I can do that very easily."
>Trump was married to Maples at the time of the alleged rape.
>Asked when he married his current wife, Melania Trump, he replied. “I don’t want to even give you the answer. I’m not going to dignify it.”
And he couldn't recall if he cheated on them or not.
>Asked if he was seeing women outside of his marriage to his first wife, Trump — whose relationship with Maples was regularly splattered across the front pages of the New York City tabloids during the late 1980s — replied, "I don't know."
>Pressed on whether he'd been public about his relationship with Maples while he was still married to Ivana Trump, he said, "I don't think I was public about it."
>Asked again if he and Maples had been dating before his divorce, he maintained, "I don't know, really. It could be a lapover," he said, apparently referring to an overlap, "but I don't really know."