Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has done many classless things during his time in Congress. But this past week, he might have outdone himself with a tweet insinuating a connection between Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Robert E. Crimo III, the Highland Park shooting suspect.
Inexplicably, Swalwell posted a tweet of Boebert holding a rifle juxtaposed with a picture of Crimo. Above it, he captioned, “Let’s start drawing straight lines.” Swalwell is highly educated, so one would think he knows the definition of a straight line. Yet, apparently not because there is none between Boebert and Crimo. There is not any connection between the two whatsoever. It was a senseless, baseless political hit job, and he owes Boebert an apology.
“Eric is symptomatic of what is wrong with the entire Democrat Party,” Boebert told me in an exclusive interview. “They claim to be the party of women, and they attacked me with sexist, baseless, and horrific claims. Heck, they attack all strong, independent women who speak up in opposition to their radical agenda.”
To prove Boebert’s point, consider another tweet of his insinuating the same kind of linkage between Crimo and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Swalwell’s targets were only GOP women who are Second Amendment enthusiasts. But Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who previously tweeted this picture, was not accused of anything by Swalwell. It raises the question — why does he feel compelled to try to bully only GOP women with such appalling smear tactics?
Moreover, when I asked her why Democrats like Swalwell only seem to mention gun crimes or care about homicides when they’re mass shootings, but ignore the thousands upon thousands of incidents of inner-city gun crime that happen each year, Boebert had a brilliant response, a response that had more gravitas than any of Swalwell’s attacks.
“Democrats ignore data and logic to push their party’s radical agenda to limit freedom and grow the federal government’s power,” Boebert said.
Comically, Swalwell had the audacity to tweet later about “debating on merits” when discussing Boebert. It exemplified the lack of self-awareness that encompasses many of his erratic claims.
“Maybe he feels superior when he attacks women. Maybe he wants to feel relevant — whatever the reason, he’s weaker for it,” Boebert said.
His latest example of misinformation, combined with his and other liberal Democratic legislators’ track records of hypocrisy, is indicative of how they prioritize propaganda over truth to try to influence the masses. Boebert elaborated on other examples of the despicable hypocrisy of the left-wing radicals in today’s Democratic Party.
“They claim to be the party of Hispanics, yet they allow criminals, illegals, and deadly fentanyl to flood majority-Hispanic communities in South Texas and Arizona. They claim to be the party of the working class, but they choose winners and losers between small businesses and big corporations. Americans are paying the price for their failed policies with $6-per-gallon gas and out-of-control inflation,” Boebert said. “Eric is a sad, little man, and he represents a sad, little party.”
There is right, and there is wrong. Swalwell’s pathetic attempt at cheap political points is wrong. Republican or Democrat, left or right, whatever one’s feelings toward Boebert’s politics, baseless, inflammatory rhetoric like Swalwell’s crosses a line and is dangerous. Disagree with her politics, criticize her voting record — that’s what politicians are supposed to do, and that’s fair game. But outright lying about a politician’s link to a domestic terrorist is abhorrent. It’s contemporary Bolshevism in action.
Swalwell can dislike her politics, and he can dislike her beliefs. But, if he has to lie and can’t defeat her with facts, then he can’t defeat her at all. He is a gutless propagandist with a lack of morality and ethics. He owes Lauren Boebert an apology. To tweet something like this, without any facts whatsoever, shows Eric Swalwell is unhinged and unfit for office.
