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Bill Maher Trashes Eric Swalwell: "Fucking Creep"

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher joined in the wave of renewed scrutiny 
around former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who he described as a “f*cking 
creep” — which has prompted fresh debate in Washington over how long 
allegations and rumors can circulate inside political and media circles 
before ever becoming public.

Swalwell, once a prominent Democratic figure and frequent cable news 
guest during the Trump era, saw his political career collapse in a 
matter of days earlier this month after a series of sexual misconduct 
allegations surfaced publicly, including claims of rape and sexual 
assault. He has since suspended his California gubernatorial campaign, 
resigned from Congress, and acknowledged “mistakes” while denying the 
more serious accusations.

The speed of that fall has only intensified questions about what was 
known, and when. That surfaced again on Saturday when Bill Maher 
addressed the situation on air, describing what he said was a long-
standing perception of Swalwell that never made it into mainstream 
reporting until recently.

WATCH:

	Bill Maher on Eric Swalwell: "We had him on a couple of times. 
	Ask my staff: I never liked him. I don’t have good gaydar — but 
	I got creepdar. I always thought this guy was a f*cking creep. 
	I never liked him."

	https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2045491220541997305

“Speaking of creepy stuff, have you been following the Eric Swalwell 
case here in California?” Maher said. “I got to say, we had him on a 
couple of times. Ask my staff. I never liked him. I don’t have good 
gaydar, but I got creepdar. I always thought this guy was a f*cking 
creep.”

Maher then broadened the point beyond Swalwell himself, arguing that 
similar patterns have played out repeatedly in American politics.

“I hear this so many times,” he said, pointing to figures like Bill 
Clinton, Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein. “You know, it was an open 
secret in Arkansas. It was an open secret,” he said of Clinton-era 
allegations, drawing a comparison to other long-circulating claims that 
only later became public scandals.

“What is going on here, where it takes so long for the open secret to 
become public?” Maher asked. “I seem to remember that back in the old 
days … when JFK was President, we heard, well, the media used to 
protect politicians, and they knew what JFK was doing, but it was just 
something they didn’t report on. Is it any different now? Apparently 
not.”

The reference to John F. Kennedy underscored Maher’s broader argument: 
that media institutions, while more expansive today, still exercise 
selective judgment over what becomes public and when. Those comments 
come as new reporting and commentary continue to surface suggesting 
that concerns about Swalwell’s conduct were known inside political and 
media circles.

Former Democratic strategist Michael Trujillo warned in a now-deleted 
post that Swalwell’s past behavior would eventually surface during his 
gubernatorial run, referencing allegations involving interns and 
inappropriate conduct. Trujillo later said he removed the post after 
receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Swalwell’s campaign.

Separately, Politico reported that Swalwell had “developed a reputation 
for unsavory and sometimes unwanted behavior toward women,” citing what 
it described as longstanding “whisper networks” among political 
insiders that rarely extended into public reporting.

The result is a familiar pattern in which reputational information 
circulates informally inside elite political and media environments but 
remains unreported until it becomes politically unavoidable.

That dynamic is now drawing renewed attention as Swalwell’s career 
unravels in real time, with questions mounting not only about the 
allegations themselves, but about why they took so long to surface 
publicly in a sustained way. And as that debate continues to grow, one 
question is increasingly hanging over the story: if everyone in 
Washington and California knew, why didn’t anyone say anything sooner?

[Takes one to know one, I guess, but I don't remember Maher saying 
anything before now.]

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