By Dave Workman
The New York Post is reporting that disgraced former California Congressman Eric Swalwell attended a February 2024 gala event hosted by the anti-gun Brady Campaign in New York City on the same night he allegedly committed sexual assault of a former staffer.
The Brady organization quickly called on him to resign when news first broke of Swalwell’s alleged sexual misconduct. On top of that, AOL is reporting that after the Post reported Swalwell’s attendance at the Brady event, “the press release listing Swalwell alongside other luminaries including Sen. Chuck Schumer, actor Bradley Whitford and comedian W. Kamau Bell was conspicuously taken offline.
“Video of the event was also completely scrubbed from the anti-gun advocacy group’s YouTube page,” AOL reported, “which left the streams of the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 events available for viewing at the time of writing.”
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms quickly zeroed in on these deletions. In a release to the media, CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said, “Brady United and Swalwell were best friends until these lurid allegations surfaced. While Swalwell is entitled to a presumption of innocence and due process, that’s certainly not the way the Brady organization has treated gun owners in general.
“By pushing background checks, waiting periods and other extremist gun control measures,” Gottlieb stated, “Brady makes it clear they consider all gun owners and gun buyers guilty until proven innocent. Instead, maybe they should background check who they work with.”
The Post report, published exclusively Wednesday, contained details of the alleged incident, which Swalwell has denied. The report said the incident occurred at the “swanky” Times Square Edition hotel, where rooms go for $1,000 a night. Swalwell and the former staffer had attended the Brady Campaign awards event and then “went out drinking.”
CNN reported the alleged rape occurred when the victim was intoxicated. It was part of a broader report on other alleged incidents of sexual misconduct. Swalwell, a career anti-gunner, has denied those allegations as well.
The Post report focused on the incidents in reference to taxpayers footing the bill for his hotel stay, and for another hotel visit in July 2018 at the Montrose West Hollywood hotel, the newspaper is reporting.
Brady United President Kim Brown released a statement prior to Swalwell’s resignation: “We unequivocally believe the courageous women who have shared their experiences of sexual harassment and assault by Rep. Eric Swalwell. The detailed reporting of their accounts makes strikingly clear that Swalwell is unfit for office.
“Swalwell’s desperate denials, victim-blaming, and legal scare tactics are far too commonly used to smear victims of sexual abuse while chilling others from coming forward,” Brown said. “Let that stop now. As one of the victims bravely noted, the ‘only person’ Eric Swalwell has to blame for the accountability he now faces is Eric Swalwell.”
But for CCRKBA’s Gottlieb, the Brady group will not be able to distance itself from the disgraced ex-congressman.
“What Swalwell allegedly did was despicable,” Gottlieb observed. “What the Brady Campaign is doing—making his name invisible on their website—is both cowardly and futile. History has recorded their past association, and that’s a stain you cannot wash away.”
