April 14, 2026 • 18 mins
A fifth woman has come forward, accusing Congressman Eric Swalwell of rape. Lana Drewes just held a powerful, emotional press conference where she detailed a horrific account of what she says happened in a Beverly Hills hotel room in 2018. She describes being incapacitated from one glass of wine and then being choked so violently she lost consciousness. Drewes announced she was going straight to law enforcement from the presser to make a criminal report against Swalwell.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, April fourteenth, and as we
record this, a woman in Los Angeles is on her
way to the police department to report the Congressman Eric
Swolwell drugged, choked and raped her. And with that, welcome
to this episode of Amy and TJ. This would be
(00:24):
the fifth accuser and the second woman, Robes, to come
forward and share a story. Accusation of this is not
just inappropriate behavior. This is now two accusations of a
horrible criminal Actcrobes.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, this isn't sexual harassment, This isn't sexual abuse. This was,
as she described it, a violent rape that involved drugging
and you mentioned choking. She actually sat in front of
cameras with microphones in her face and said after she
(01:03):
went through this, she says she didn't want to live.
This was a powerful emotional account of what she claims
happened in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And we should tell you all now we are hopping on.
She just wrapped the press conference. We knew this press
conference was happening. We were told that there would be
some new details. We were not expecting this. And key here,
Robes key, is that the first accuser came out. Sure,
maybe people are putting it together. But she did an
interview in which she did not show her face, that
she was blacked out. She hasn't given her name. This
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woman sat in front of a room full of cameras,
her name is Lana Dreuze, and put her name and
face on it and told her story. Robes, this is
not the other. The other. Look, we have to believe
a woman when she comes forward like this, but talk
of alcohol and really getting wasted and didn't remember one
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night and then the other that were flashes. This is
not the case at all with this woman's story.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I have to tell you, just listening to her tell
her story, you could hear a pin drop and I
had chills from head to toe multiple times listening to
her recount this. And I just have to say just
in terms of my impressions, and everyone can have their impression.
And of course this is her version events. This is
all alleged. He of course denies any wrongdoing, denies so
(02:27):
far any of the accounts and certainly any criminal accounts
that have been made that would describe behavior that could
be yes punishable by police. So he's denied everything. However,
listening to her tell her story Damn. She was very believable.
She was composed, she was emotional, but in a very
(02:48):
genuine way. I thought listening to her, I felt for
her and I believed her.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Frankly, she felt brave. She felt brave sitting there and
hearing part of her story robes and I know it
was a part that you jumped on the most, and
you were like, I feel her. There is that the
reason she hasn't come forward in all this time and
we're talking about it's been eight years. She lived in fear,
and she was in circles that were influential and didn't
want to rock the boat. And when you were listening
(03:19):
to her, you were like, Yep, that reads Yep, that
makes sense, Yep, I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, because here is a woman.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She was a model in Beverly Hills, but she also
owned a fashion software company, and she was hoping to
get connected to folks in Silicon Valley. She describes Congressman
Eric swall Well as a friend and someone who said, hey,
I can hook you up. I've got connections. Let's have
some meetings. So she had a couple of meetings with him.
This was another meeting and she said, I knew he
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was married. I knew his wife was pregnant. So she
went into this not feeling threatened or feeling like maybe
something else was going on. She felt like this was
a legit business friendship that could actually serve her well
in her in her professional career. And when she talked
about why she didn't tell, she did tell friends. She
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did say this, and she didn't document it in several ways. Personally,
she went to a therapist for years, but she didn't
want to go to police, and she didn't want to
say anything publicly out of fear that her she wouldn't
be believed that he was a powerful political figure who
had She said, his family has ties to law enforcement.
He's a big deal in this area. And to go
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up against him and to say something happened and then
to be pitted against him, she said he said.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
She just she felt too afraid to come forward.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Her delay was driven by fear, not doubt is how
she placed it. But her name is Lana Drews. She was,
as you mentioned, robes, working as a model at this
company out there now her press conference, and I wanted
to make sure we said this exactly how she said
it quote. I believed he drugged my drink. Now, she
goes on to tip this story of Robe. She says,
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she met him and they were together socially on three occasions.
She offered to help him, excuse me, he offered to
help her out. But the third occasion, let's move to
that one rose and she starts to describe they were
supposed to go to an event together again twenty eighteen.
Is supposed to go to some event, but he says
he needs to go back up to his room.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Correct, And she said, beforehand they had she had one
glass of wine. One one glass of wine. And she said, look,
she was considering running for city council. She had an
interest in politics, So yes, she was going to a
public event with him, so she knows she only had
one glass of wine. He said, according to her, oops,
I got to run up to my hotel room to
retrieve some paperwork.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She said.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
By the time she walked into his room, she couldn't
move her arms. She started to feel the effects of
what she believes was a drug that she believes he
put in her drink.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What she described as not somebody had just had one
glass of wine. I don't care how much of a lightweight,
what she described sounds fishy. Now robes before we continue
with her story. The reason this stands out so much
because we couldn't understand why the other accuser said he
also raped her. Couldn't remember whole parts of the night,
couldn't remember going from the bar to the hottel, couldn't
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remember anything in between. Now robes that, well, folks have
been blackout drunk before. You happen to be blackout drunk
on the two times and can't remember anything the two
times you met up with this congressman. Robes that might
lend itself a little more to that story. And what
could have could have She's not alleging, right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
She doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
She doesn't even know enough to allege, and she knows
she was drinking, So I actually give her credit. She
wasn't trying to say I only had one and I
don't know how she was like I was heavily drinking.
But you are correct. When I was listening to Anna
Drew's tell her story, I immediately went to the former
staffer and thought, I wonder if she even considered that
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maybe something was put in one of those ris to
make her literally remember nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That was how back to Lana. Yeah, I just would
insert that in there. But yeah, she says she has
the one drink goes upstairs. Can't move a body, she said.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You couldn't move her arms, She couldn't move her body.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But she knew what was going on, and she said
he raped her and he choked her so much that
she says she actually lost consciousness. She said she thought
she was dying. Yeah, she used that phrase. I thought
I was dying.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Now I didn't hear. They didn't go into details. I
think robes about the aftermath, what happened immediately after, How
does she get away from her, how does she get home?
Whatever happened. They didn't give those details, and they didn't
give all details. She did let us know that at
the time she did not do a rape, kip, but robe.
She did plenty of other things that will be seen
as if even if not evidence, it'll certainly lend to
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her credibility.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, this is something that police look for when they
are putting together a criminal investigation and get ready to
make charges. Did she tell people close to her at
the time she claims it happened.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
The answer is yes. She also says she logged it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In her handwritten calendar that this happened on this date.
And then she also documented the assault during multiple therapy sessions.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
At a sexual assault center.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Ha, that's a if they got those records.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And the fact if she did all of this in
twenty eighteen and said nothing publicly, it absolutely corroborates or
at least makes it so much more believable that she
didn't go forward because she was afraid. She was afraid
of being put in that position of being forced to
perhaps even maybe lose her business or lose clients, or
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just becoming that woman no one wants to be. No
woman wants to be that woman who's pointing the finger
at a powerful man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's a scary, scary endeavor.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But the fact that she did all of those things
to try and heal herself speaks to me to her credibility.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And again, this is in twenty eighteen is when this
happened into a robe. Since then, there have been plenty
of other times that she was after him, times when
his profile was higher. There were times she could have
hurt him if she wanted to hurt him. There were
times she could have blackmailed him if she wanted to
blackmail him. In some way, form or fashion. If she
wanted to favor even from him, she had plenty of
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chances to do so, Robes, and she's just that lends
greatly to credibility.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yes, again, watching her, listening to her description of what happened,
hearing how she acted in the aftermath of everything, it
all seemed very credible.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Of note because she felt safe, she felt empowered, She
felt like she would be believed now and that makes
a lot of sense too, because other women have come
forward and there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Might be more. We will explain what her attorney said
in this press conference. That will have Eric Swallwell certainly concerned,
but it'll raise more eyebrows about just how many women
potential victims there are out there. Stare all right? We
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continue here on Amy and TJ. Robes are just mentioned.
You said she has come forward now, and she's come
forward because other women came forward. Well, now that she's
come forward, shouldn't we expect possibly phones to be ringing
at a Manhattan DA's office, at the Los Angeles Police
Department of Beverly Hills, wherever they are Robes this How
(10:39):
far does this go? Yet?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Because the timing all is interesting because remember his former staffer,
who was twenty one at the time, detailed what she
said was the first time he sexually assaulted her. As
twenty nineteen, we are hearing from Lana that her incident happened,
she says, in two thousand eighteen. So this is all
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in the same kind of period of time. And look,
if this is true, I believe from just the experience
we've had covering these types of stories, when a person
acts like this, it oftentimes isn't an outlier. It isn't
an individual or a singular event. This typically is a sexual.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Desire and a pattern.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And so if you've already got now the fifth woman
coming out and what they describe is so atrocious and violent,
and if he had been getting away with it year
after year after year, if this is all true, I
can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
There aren't more women there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It seems like there almost certainly are more women roams.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You said this to me before. In cases maybe not
a drug, but it's hard to imagine that this was
the first time he'd done it. If he did it,
that she was the first or a one off, that
means it's possibly happened. How many possible times you're telling me,
a US congressman who actually ran for president and wanted
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to be the governor of California, was out there drugging
and raping people. Robe. That's geez, Robe. This is an
unbelievable story, he is. This is not a one off.
And look, we believe that first victim that first. You
have to listen to that story, Robes. But there are
parts of that story you might ask a follow up
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question about. There are parts of that story you might
question about memories in it. What this lady's story is,
at least from a press conference unimpeachable, Robes.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
She has a way to put it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
She's got receipts upon receipts upon receipts, she says. Now
we haven't seen them yet, but as we sit here,
she says, she was getting up from that press conference
and going directly to police.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That was powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
When she said, I will be making a report to
law enforcement immediately.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I could see this could make me emotion.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I could see the strength coming back to her because
when she was telling the story, she was vulnerable, she
was emotional. You could see and feel how powerless she
felt and she has felt in that moment and all
of the years that have followed, even telling us that
she wanted she had suicidal thoughts based on what she
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had experienced because she felt so powerless, helpless, And to
see her say I will be making a report to
law enforce it. Immediately, I saw the strength come back
in her voice, and I felt I just felt a
bunch of pride rushing up in me, because in this moment,
when you saw her and you heard her story, and
you take in the consideration of all the other stories
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that are out there, you start to get an idea
of what one man who is unchecked with this kind
of power, the damage that he can cause. Now again
we need to say it multiple times. Eric Swolwell has
denied all of these allegations. He has not been charged
with any crime. But still this is a picture that
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is emerging that is chilling and should be paid very
close attention to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And romees we mentioned we don't know how far this
will go, but this is beyond messages and unwanted right
misconduct is different from criminal and robes. They are paying
the picture now of a potential monster. It is just
hard to understand. And we are rogues that you thought
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it was interesting that when the Manhattan DA put out
a statement saying they were looking into this. They had
a call out essentially, there any other victims out there,
we want to hear from. It had a phone number,
didn't they attach to it?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
They did for their Special Victims Unit.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's one of the last things Lana's attorney did at
Lisa Bloom said, we want to hear from you, gave
a website, gave a number. We want to hear not
just from potential survivors, but also witnesses to anything. So
not even if you just saw you're aware of something,
we want to hear. She says she's already heard from
three women.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Wow, and that's not shocking, but it's still so sickening
to hear.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Just more phone calls are likely being made. Robes, I
just taught this is a member of Congress rogues. We
talked about governor of California. He's trying to be he's
trying to he presided over the impeachment trial. This is
a high profile, big influential guy that was raping people.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you know for years twenty eighteen, by the way,
it's the year of me too. That actually also is
shocking to me.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I would have thought naively so I guess that all
of these powerful men who may have been behaving badly,
who had gotten away with it for decades, years, whatever,
when that reckoning took place, I would have thought that
even if you're that guy, you might check yourself and think,
you know what, I'm might actually go down. This is
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not worth it, any sexual fantasy I have or anything
I'm getting out of doing this isn't worth me losing
my entire life and livelihood. And yet, if this is
true the timing, actually this was happening, if it happened.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
In the midst of me too, think about that King.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Now you tell me maybe some of the other accusers
about the messages and whatnot. Do you know the years
the range for those.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, I thought I had seen like twenty twenty one. Yes,
it seemed as though that the dates we've gotten the
first one was.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Twenty eighteen and nineteen, or were we had in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So now we have yeah, that's it, twenty eighteen, and
then all the way up to twenty twenty four. So
it seems as though these instances and some of the
ones from these social influencers. I'm not trying to act
like it's not a big deal, But they are a
far cry from what we're hearing from these two women,
the former staffer and now this former model, Lana drus
But I do think it's really really significant that she
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did not only put her name to it, but her
face to it and her own voice to it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That was powerful Robes. There might be more fallout, are
they You're all really gonna somebody's gonna start asking who knew?
What are you really telling me? Y'all been walking the
halls with him for the past eight years and nobody
because stuffs starting is like it was an open secret
here in DC.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Don't forget and we haven't validated any of this, but
there are videos circulating online of people catching him kind
of bragging about certain kind of behavior or being bored
with his wife, and so look, it would I would
imagine other people might have had an idea, but maybe
they didn't know how significant and violent some of these
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accusations actually are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
This is a relevant story that a very relevant story
that seems to be just getting started. Probably it was
just last Thursday. He was trying to be the governor
of California.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
He thought he had a pretty damn a good chance
to rose.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
How could he unbelievable story, but again he is an
innocent man and to proven otherwise in a court of law.
We always have to remember. But folks, we appreciate you
spending some time with us. This was a significant update.
Just wanting to hop on and let you know what
was going on. It's always appreciate you spending time with
us on TJ on behalf of my dear Ammy Robot.
We will talk to you also
Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, April fourteenth, and as we
record this, a woman in Los Angeles is on her
way to the police department to report the Congressman Eric
Swolwell drugged, choked and raped her. And with that, welcome
to this episode of Amy and TJ. This would be
(00:24):
the fifth accuser and the second woman, Robes, to come
forward and share a story. Accusation of this is not
just inappropriate behavior. This is now two accusations of a
horrible criminal Actcrobes.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, this isn't sexual harassment, This isn't sexual abuse. This was,
as she described it, a violent rape that involved drugging
and you mentioned choking. She actually sat in front of
cameras with microphones in her face and said after she
(01:03):
went through this, she says she didn't want to live.
This was a powerful emotional account of what she claims
happened in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And we should tell you all now we are hopping on.
She just wrapped the press conference. We knew this press
conference was happening. We were told that there would be
some new details. We were not expecting this. And key here,
Robes key, is that the first accuser came out. Sure,
maybe people are putting it together. But she did an
interview in which she did not show her face, that
she was blacked out. She hasn't given her name. This
(01:37):
woman sat in front of a room full of cameras,
her name is Lana Dreuze, and put her name and
face on it and told her story. Robes, this is
not the other. The other. Look, we have to believe
a woman when she comes forward like this, but talk
of alcohol and really getting wasted and didn't remember one
(01:59):
night and then the other that were flashes. This is
not the case at all with this woman's story.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I have to tell you, just listening to her tell
her story, you could hear a pin drop and I
had chills from head to toe multiple times listening to
her recount this. And I just have to say just
in terms of my impressions, and everyone can have their impression.
And of course this is her version events. This is
all alleged. He of course denies any wrongdoing, denies so
(02:27):
far any of the accounts and certainly any criminal accounts
that have been made that would describe behavior that could
be yes punishable by police. So he's denied everything. However,
listening to her tell her story Damn. She was very believable.
She was composed, she was emotional, but in a very
(02:48):
genuine way. I thought listening to her, I felt for
her and I believed her.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Frankly, she felt brave. She felt brave sitting there and
hearing part of her story robes and I know it
was a part that you jumped on the most, and
you were like, I feel her. There is that the
reason she hasn't come forward in all this time and
we're talking about it's been eight years. She lived in fear,
and she was in circles that were influential and didn't
want to rock the boat. And when you were listening
(03:19):
to her, you were like, Yep, that reads Yep, that
makes sense, Yep, I get it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, because here is a woman.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She was a model in Beverly Hills, but she also
owned a fashion software company, and she was hoping to
get connected to folks in Silicon Valley. She describes Congressman
Eric swall Well as a friend and someone who said, hey,
I can hook you up. I've got connections. Let's have
some meetings. So she had a couple of meetings with him.
This was another meeting and she said, I knew he
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was married. I knew his wife was pregnant. So she
went into this not feeling threatened or feeling like maybe
something else was going on. She felt like this was
a legit business friendship that could actually serve her well
in her in her professional career. And when she talked
about why she didn't tell, she did tell friends. She
(04:08):
did say this, and she didn't document it in several ways. Personally,
she went to a therapist for years, but she didn't
want to go to police, and she didn't want to
say anything publicly out of fear that her she wouldn't
be believed that he was a powerful political figure who
had She said, his family has ties to law enforcement.
He's a big deal in this area. And to go
(04:30):
up against him and to say something happened and then
to be pitted against him, she said he said.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
She just she felt too afraid to come forward.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Her delay was driven by fear, not doubt is how
she placed it. But her name is Lana Drews. She was,
as you mentioned, robes, working as a model at this
company out there now her press conference, and I wanted
to make sure we said this exactly how she said
it quote. I believed he drugged my drink. Now, she
goes on to tip this story of Robe. She says,
(05:01):
she met him and they were together socially on three occasions.
She offered to help him, excuse me, he offered to
help her out. But the third occasion, let's move to
that one rose and she starts to describe they were
supposed to go to an event together again twenty eighteen.
Is supposed to go to some event, but he says
he needs to go back up to his room.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Correct, And she said, beforehand they had she had one
glass of wine. One one glass of wine. And she said, look,
she was considering running for city council. She had an
interest in politics, So yes, she was going to a
public event with him, so she knows she only had
one glass of wine. He said, according to her, oops,
I got to run up to my hotel room to
retrieve some paperwork.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She said.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
By the time she walked into his room, she couldn't
move her arms. She started to feel the effects of
what she believes was a drug that she believes he
put in her drink.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
What she described as not somebody had just had one
glass of wine. I don't care how much of a lightweight,
what she described sounds fishy. Now robes before we continue
with her story. The reason this stands out so much
because we couldn't understand why the other accuser said he
also raped her. Couldn't remember whole parts of the night,
couldn't remember going from the bar to the hottel, couldn't
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remember anything in between. Now robes that, well, folks have
been blackout drunk before. You happen to be blackout drunk
on the two times and can't remember anything the two
times you met up with this congressman. Robes that might
lend itself a little more to that story. And what
could have could have She's not alleging, right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
She doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
She doesn't even know enough to allege, and she knows
she was drinking, So I actually give her credit. She
wasn't trying to say I only had one and I
don't know how she was like I was heavily drinking.
But you are correct. When I was listening to Anna
Drew's tell her story, I immediately went to the former
staffer and thought, I wonder if she even considered that
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maybe something was put in one of those ris to
make her literally remember nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
That was how back to Lana. Yeah, I just would
insert that in there. But yeah, she says she has
the one drink goes upstairs. Can't move a body, she said.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You couldn't move her arms, She couldn't move her body.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But she knew what was going on, and she said
he raped her and he choked her so much that
she says she actually lost consciousness. She said she thought
she was dying. Yeah, she used that phrase. I thought
I was dying.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Now I didn't hear. They didn't go into details. I
think robes about the aftermath, what happened immediately after, How
does she get away from her, how does she get home?
Whatever happened. They didn't give those details, and they didn't
give all details. She did let us know that at
the time she did not do a rape, kip, but robe.
She did plenty of other things that will be seen
as if even if not evidence, it'll certainly lend to
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her credibility.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh, this is something that police look for when they
are putting together a criminal investigation and get ready to
make charges. Did she tell people close to her at
the time she claims it happened.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
The answer is yes. She also says she logged it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
In her handwritten calendar that this happened on this date.
And then she also documented the assault during multiple therapy sessions.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
At a sexual assault center.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Ha, that's a if they got those records.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
And the fact if she did all of this in
twenty eighteen and said nothing publicly, it absolutely corroborates or
at least makes it so much more believable that she
didn't go forward because she was afraid. She was afraid
of being put in that position of being forced to
perhaps even maybe lose her business or lose clients, or
(08:40):
just becoming that woman no one wants to be. No
woman wants to be that woman who's pointing the finger
at a powerful man.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's a scary, scary endeavor.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But the fact that she did all of those things
to try and heal herself speaks to me to her credibility.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And again, this is in twenty eighteen is when this
happened into a robe. Since then, there have been plenty
of other times that she was after him, times when
his profile was higher. There were times she could have
hurt him if she wanted to hurt him. There were
times she could have blackmailed him if she wanted to
blackmail him. In some way, form or fashion. If she
wanted to favor even from him, she had plenty of
(09:19):
chances to do so, Robes, and she's just that lends
greatly to credibility.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yes, again, watching her, listening to her description of what happened,
hearing how she acted in the aftermath of everything, it
all seemed very credible.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And it is.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Of note because she felt safe, she felt empowered, She
felt like she would be believed now and that makes
a lot of sense too, because other women have come
forward and there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Might be more. We will explain what her attorney said
in this press conference. That will have Eric Swallwell certainly concerned,
but it'll raise more eyebrows about just how many women
potential victims there are out there. Stare all right? We
(10:17):
continue here on Amy and TJ. Robes are just mentioned.
You said she has come forward now, and she's come
forward because other women came forward. Well, now that she's
come forward, shouldn't we expect possibly phones to be ringing
at a Manhattan DA's office, at the Los Angeles Police
Department of Beverly Hills, wherever they are Robes this How
(10:39):
far does this go? Yet?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Because the timing all is interesting because remember his former staffer,
who was twenty one at the time, detailed what she
said was the first time he sexually assaulted her. As
twenty nineteen, we are hearing from Lana that her incident happened,
she says, in two thousand eighteen. So this is all
(11:02):
in the same kind of period of time. And look,
if this is true, I believe from just the experience
we've had covering these types of stories, when a person
acts like this, it oftentimes isn't an outlier. It isn't
an individual or a singular event. This typically is a sexual.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Desire and a pattern.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And so if you've already got now the fifth woman
coming out and what they describe is so atrocious and violent,
and if he had been getting away with it year
after year after year, if this is all true, I
can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
There aren't more women there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It seems like there almost certainly are more women roams.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You said this to me before. In cases maybe not
a drug, but it's hard to imagine that this was
the first time he'd done it. If he did it,
that she was the first or a one off, that
means it's possibly happened. How many possible times you're telling me,
a US congressman who actually ran for president and wanted
(12:07):
to be the governor of California, was out there drugging
and raping people. Robe. That's geez, Robe. This is an
unbelievable story, he is. This is not a one off.
And look, we believe that first victim that first. You
have to listen to that story, Robes. But there are
parts of that story you might ask a follow up
(12:29):
question about. There are parts of that story you might
question about memories in it. What this lady's story is,
at least from a press conference unimpeachable, Robes.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
She has a way to put it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
She's got receipts upon receipts upon receipts, she says. Now
we haven't seen them yet, but as we sit here,
she says, she was getting up from that press conference
and going directly to police.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That was powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
When she said, I will be making a report to
law enforcement immediately.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I could see this could make me emotion.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I could see the strength coming back to her because
when she was telling the story, she was vulnerable, she
was emotional. You could see and feel how powerless she
felt and she has felt in that moment and all
of the years that have followed, even telling us that
she wanted she had suicidal thoughts based on what she
(13:21):
had experienced because she felt so powerless, helpless, And to
see her say I will be making a report to
law enforce it. Immediately, I saw the strength come back
in her voice, and I felt I just felt a
bunch of pride rushing up in me, because in this moment,
when you saw her and you heard her story, and
you take in the consideration of all the other stories
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that are out there, you start to get an idea
of what one man who is unchecked with this kind
of power, the damage that he can cause. Now again
we need to say it multiple times. Eric Swolwell has
denied all of these allegations. He has not been charged
with any crime. But still this is a picture that
(14:05):
is emerging that is chilling and should be paid very
close attention to.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And romees we mentioned we don't know how far this
will go, but this is beyond messages and unwanted right
misconduct is different from criminal and robes. They are paying
the picture now of a potential monster. It is just
hard to understand. And we are rogues that you thought
(14:32):
it was interesting that when the Manhattan DA put out
a statement saying they were looking into this. They had
a call out essentially, there any other victims out there,
we want to hear from. It had a phone number,
didn't they attach to it?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
They did for their Special Victims Unit.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's one of the last things Lana's attorney did at
Lisa Bloom said, we want to hear from you, gave
a website, gave a number. We want to hear not
just from potential survivors, but also witnesses to anything. So
not even if you just saw you're aware of something,
we want to hear. She says she's already heard from
three women.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Wow, and that's not shocking, but it's still so sickening
to hear.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Just more phone calls are likely being made. Robes, I
just taught this is a member of Congress rogues. We
talked about governor of California. He's trying to be he's
trying to he presided over the impeachment trial. This is
a high profile, big influential guy that was raping people.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you know for years twenty eighteen, by the way,
it's the year of me too. That actually also is
shocking to me.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I would have thought naively so I guess that all
of these powerful men who may have been behaving badly,
who had gotten away with it for decades, years, whatever,
when that reckoning took place, I would have thought that
even if you're that guy, you might check yourself and think,
you know what, I'm might actually go down. This is
(16:01):
not worth it, any sexual fantasy I have or anything
I'm getting out of doing this isn't worth me losing
my entire life and livelihood. And yet, if this is
true the timing, actually this was happening, if it happened.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
In the midst of me too, think about that King.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Now you tell me maybe some of the other accusers
about the messages and whatnot. Do you know the years
the range for those.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, I thought I had seen like twenty twenty one. Yes,
it seemed as though that the dates we've gotten the
first one was.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Twenty eighteen and nineteen, or were we had in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So now we have yeah, that's it, twenty eighteen, and
then all the way up to twenty twenty four. So
it seems as though these instances and some of the
ones from these social influencers. I'm not trying to act
like it's not a big deal, But they are a
far cry from what we're hearing from these two women,
the former staffer and now this former model, Lana drus
But I do think it's really really significant that she
(17:01):
did not only put her name to it, but her
face to it and her own voice to it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That was powerful Robes. There might be more fallout, are
they You're all really gonna somebody's gonna start asking who knew?
What are you really telling me? Y'all been walking the
halls with him for the past eight years and nobody
because stuffs starting is like it was an open secret
here in DC.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Don't forget and we haven't validated any of this, but
there are videos circulating online of people catching him kind
of bragging about certain kind of behavior or being bored
with his wife, and so look, it would I would
imagine other people might have had an idea, but maybe
they didn't know how significant and violent some of these
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accusations actually are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
This is a relevant story that a very relevant story
that seems to be just getting started. Probably it was
just last Thursday. He was trying to be the governor
of California.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
He thought he had a pretty damn a good chance
to rose.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
How could he unbelievable story, but again he is an
innocent man and to proven otherwise in a court of law.
We always have to remember. But folks, we appreciate you
spending some time with us. This was a significant update.
Just wanting to hop on and let you know what
was going on. It's always appreciate you spending time with
us on TJ on behalf of my dear Ammy Robot.
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