Sunshine is the best disinfectant, but serious scrutiny so concerns some Democrats that you’d think they, themselves, were the infection. Democrats would like you to think they’re nothing but a naked body behind a thin sheet of Saran Wrap – totally transparent and honest. But dig just a little and that clear wrap becomes aluminum foil. Democrats are terrified of a little scrutiny, and should tell you a whole lot.
Eric Swalwell, the, gassy, buffoonish Congressman from California who regularly steps into a field of metaphorical rakes, even in friendly interviews, is absolutely terrified that the FBI might release their file of the Bureau’s investigation into his being honey-potted by the Chinese Communist Party. In the past, Eric has insisted he was completely exonerated after he was targeted by our enemy, so why would the release of information the FBI gathered that led to that conclusion scare him?
That’s an important question to ask, especially given how Swalwell was a very loud voice in the calls for the Epstein files to be released. He wanted everything out in that case, mostly so his fellow Democrats could weaponize every garbage scrap of paper in it, no matter who stupid or fraudulent it clearly was. Eric doesn’t want that to happen to him.
There’s also the reality that the only person’s word we have to go on when it comes to just how “sweet and innocent” he was in the affair is him. Granted, he could be stupid enough to not know, but he could also be lying. After all, why would a moderately attractive woman want to have anything to do with him in nature? It was pretty obvious he was played, but the extent to which he was (and by extension, us, since he would have betrayed all of us, inadvertently or not) we don’t know. That file might help us understand.
But he’s running for Governor of California, so that he’s terrified and threatening to sue to keep those secrets sealed tells you pretty much everything, doesn’t it? He’s previously denied anything sexual happened – surely Fang Fang wishes that were true – but won’t go into any details about any of it or give interviews with anyone with the integrity to ask about it; he’s just hoping to run out the clock.
Maybe he will be able to do it, too. Time will tell, just as time will tell if the people of California will support a Forrest Gump with honey pot problem who pays his wife for “child care” for her own kids. All kinds of gross, those Swalwells…
But the Swalwells aren’t the only trash in the Democrats’ dumpster. On the other side of the country, Westly Moore – who goes by Wes to hide his rich kid upbringing – the Governor of Maryland wants you to know he has nothing to hide…while being terrified at the prospect of anyone looking into the probably fiction he has woven about his own life.
Westley served in the military and talks about it often. But he won’t release his military records, for some reason. He swears his service was honorable, even being awarded some medals. Only he wasn’t, at least not at the time he claimed it. Weirdly, it was “awarded” later, after the “mistake” of him not having been given it was noticed, or so we’re told. Don’t know too much more about his service, beyond what he’s claimed.
If Westley’s file backs up his story, why wouldn’t he want it released?
But when the Baltimore Sun decided to ask some questions about the state’s Governor and his biography, the Moore-ons ran to Semafor for protection.
Pro-tip: If you’re a “news” organization and members of one party run to you for cover and security when they’re facing tough questions, you’re doing something wrong. When it works, you’re an embarrassment.
Their headline, “Maryland’s biggest newspaper is going after the governor’s 2028 campaign.”
Why is a media outlet vetting a Democrat who was never really vetted somehow “news” or “going after” that politician? What happened to that “We speak truth to power” crap the media always cries when they’re screaming at the President?
Gone. Semafor worked intimately with Moore’s people to preemptively deflect any questions about his biography, his service, his family and his fortune. That’s a whole lot of work for someone with nothing to hide.
Realistically, Semafor should have been asking these questions, or demanding answers to stories like those uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon showing Westley’s claims that his great-grandfather was run out of the country by the KKK were completely made up. But that’s too much like work, and way too honest for a left-wing media that serves more as a security blanket for “progressive” politicians and an emotional tampon for Democrats desperately searching for a savior.
If basic information about your life coming out has you terrified, you probably shouldn’t be anywhere near the levers of power. If you have something to hide, feel free to hide it in the private sector. But if you’re afraid of people you seek to represent getting a peek beyond how you’ve chosen to represent yourself, maybe you’re the problem…
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.