Swalwell Calls Out Trump’s Unlawful War and Discusses Gov Race

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Enter promo code comfort. That's meundies.com/comfort code comfort. Donald Trump is panicking as even people from his own cult are calling for his impeachment. That's right. At a CPAC convention, the head of CPAC slap tried to hype up the CPAC crowd and said,

"Who here wants to see Donald Trump get impeached." And then the crowd started clapping for Trump's impeachment at the CPAC event. You're watching this clip.

“How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?”

No. That was the wrong answer. I was trying to do that. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No.

Can someone bring some coffee out for the...

Well, that either demonstrates that they want to have them impeached or the type of voter who flocks to Donald Trump. But at that same CPAC event, you had Todd Blanch, Donald Trump's deputy AG panicking over the fact that if Democrats take control of the House and Democrats take control of the executive branch in 2008, that Blanch and all of Trump's cabinet are likely going to be prosecuted.

Here's what he says. Let's play it. Everybody's afraid that the next administration, if we don't win, we're going to all be investigated. Think about that. This is not a thoughtful country.

This is America. And the existing administration is afraid that they're going to get indicted. And why are they afraid? Because that's exactly what happened during the last administration. All of President Trump's cabinet, everybody who worked in the White House, his secret service

detail had to go to the grand jury. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi is trying to raise her hand up and say, "Look, I'm exhibit A everybody as earlier on Friday morning while the markets were also tanking." She said, "You know, being a citizen in our country, it's not a right. It is an absolute privilege to be a citizen."

And Donald Trump's going to pick who he wants to be as a citizen. Because it's Donald Trump's determination. If you have the privilege to be one here, watch what she says. Play this clip. I'd about their marriage to get in this country.

You can't do that. Being a citizen in our country is a privilege. It's not a right. And Donald Trump is going to have everyone in this country who deserves to be here who's a citizen. And yeah, sure it could be faster.

It could be easier.

“But I think we're moving a lightning speed, given what we're up against.”

Think about the old dominion. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's approval is absolutely tanking on the economy. It's net negative like 33. The lowest in presidential history at this time on cost of living net negative 41. His overall approval is 36% and it's just continues to crash each week.

Amongst white, non-college male voters. He's at a net negative 4% right there. When just this past December 2025, he was a plus 10. So it's all a crashing down for Donald who is also curious about the 25th amendment being invoked against him as well.

Let's play this clip. But I wouldn't talk. It's like the question this young lady, yes, sorry about I embarrassed. I don't want to embarrass you because I think you're of, I think she's a friendly reporter.

So I'm sorry. But you know, I can't say what we're going to do because if I did, I wouldn't be sitting here for long. They'd probably, what is it called? The 25th amendment?

I want to bring in Democratic Congress member Eric Swallwell.

“He's also running for Governor, the great state of California,”

the state that I call home. Congress member Swallwell.

It's great to see it as always.

I want to get into what's going on in California, what's going on with the airports in California. We'll get there. But I want to first just have you react to just this historical moment that we're in. As this disastrous war rages on and Iran as Americans can't afford things at home.

And as we see a deranged Donald Trump do his on-core. I guess to COVID doing the exact same stick as we head into Easter, but about this disastrous war in Iran as our economy implodes. And as we lose lives overseas. I saw your CPAC clip intro.

“Sounds like there's a lot of conservatives who want the president to be impeached.”

And I bet they're pretty pissed that this guy promised he'd lower costs on day one. And instead, he's done the exact opposite with his stupid tariff tax. That is raised the cost of almost everything that we bought. He said he would have no more wars. Instead, he's added wars to the map.

And it's costing us money. By the way, in California, as you see when you go to the gas station, we are paying almost $2 more per gallon today because of these wars. Then we paid on the first day of Joe Biden's presidency. So he's costing us in every way.

And if you listen to that room, sounds like people are pretty pissed off about. You know, with all of the destruction he's unleashed. And with all of the money that they've spent on this destruction.

I've always thought, we imagined a world regardless of who the person is.

Came into power and they used the money in order to build housing and to give people health care. And to help people get the type of education they want and help people find jobs. And the amount of effort spent right now hurting people. If you use those same funds and help people, I don't just seem like the entire country would benefit or the state of California, the state's across this country would benefit.

It's obviously there, but so easy to say $200 billion supplemental for a war in Iran, where we're chasing Netanyahu into a war over there and no one even knows what the hell we're even doing. You know, to kill people, why is it so difficult to spend money here to actually help the American people that could have a return on investment? Two things would happen if he did that.

First, he'd help people in bring down costs and lift up opportunity and two, he'd be more popular.

The popularity tracks exactly with what people expected and are not seen from this guy. And all they see is that he has more fucking plans for a ballroom in the East Wing than he does to lower costs or to carry out this war in Iran, which he can't justify or explain what he's going to do next. So talk to us about California, people refer to this as a jungle primary. And people get awfully nervous who look at that jungle primary and they get worried.

They see two Republicans and ten Democrats and people have been very proud. I think in California of the way Newsom has stood up to Donald Trump and pushed back against him and been a leader internationally as well during a time when that was needed because California is also the fourth largest economy of the world. And so people are saying, "What's going on with this jungle primary and what do I make of it?" And who, how do you make that?

I mean, obviously you're in it, and what's your pitch to the voters? The Californians want a fighter and a protector and as I talk to folks from Reading to Redlands, you know, what I hear is they ask, "What are you going to do to fight and protect from?" And you mentioned Governor Newsom and there's no person in America who's more protected by their Governor than a Californian by Governor Newsom.

“And so the first thing you have to do is show how you're going to protect against a president who's ice agents or chasing Californians”

or the fields and factors where people work, who are dragging women by their hair and throwing them into unmarked fans and who are committing public executions, you have to protect the people first. And I offer an arcand of the sea, 10 years of being in the arena and taking on this guy in every imaginable way from investigations to impeachments to my own lawsuit against him that is the only one that survived this new presidency. It's me and the January six officers, but then also being in parallel able to write a new California story on lowering the damn cost.

There is a risk right now that two Republicans could get through and a crowded field.

Now, we are at the top consistently and all of the polling were consistently the only Democrat that has been in the top two. But if we had a Republican governor, God forbid, Donald Trump would have a Western White House. And what Californians want right now as it relates to Donald Trump is not a friend they want a fighter.

“You know, as I think about whether it's the California governor's race, governor's race is across the country.”

Heck, Iowa governor's race. So I have people like that on here, right? You know, I think about, I think about ice and border patrol on the streets, though, and what it's like living in California, seeing people terrorized and tortured. Here, seeing those scenes across the country, seeing the cruelty of Elon Musk and doge and taking people's private data and cutting these programs or cutting off aid to people with HIV. And just the true extent of the cruelty isn't even known yet. And I think when we read that, it'll be proportions that are so sick.

But I think I just imagine, imagine if there was the governor of a state where the leader of the country who rather than seeing ice on the streets when we were driving down our blocks, we saw homes being built. And rather than a musk who is cruel and taking away and mocking people on social media, and I'm not suggesting Elon would do it.

“But you actually saw Tesla homes being built that were $50,000, and they were going up and people were with their families playing up.”

And parks were being built. And to me, I just think of that, and I'm like, we know that's possible because, again, if you do all the opposite with the money, it's possible just to do that and have help people. So it seems like you running for the governor's race. I mean, it seems to me when I speak to voters what they're looking for is who can execute on that vision to see things getting built.

And connections being made and helping offer and people being uplifted and steady leadership. What do you think about that? Yeah, you can put your energy in one of two directions, right? You can put it in the direction of good and growth growth and wages growth and economic development growth in the number of houses in California. Or you can put it toward cruelty and evil is the president and so many others have done. What I have said I'll focus on on day one is to tell every agency in the state that they have 90 days to approve or deny every outstanding housing application.

So that we surge supply. I've always thought over 20 years in government from being a planning commissioner to a city councilman to a deputy district attorney to Congress that a goal without a deadline is a dream. And Californians when it comes to housing and affordability are done dreaming they want more doing.

“And so yes, you have to be able to see the optimism in Californians and see our way out and through this president.”

And so being a fighter protector is table stakes for being able to run, but building on the optimism of a great state that always remakes and reimagines itself.

That's the path forward. I could have named my campaign anything. Ben, I named it a new California because we have to write a new California story as it relates to post Trump, but also what we can do on affordability growth and modernization for the next chapter. Congress and work at people learn more about the campaign learn more about. Thank you. At Eric Swallwell, my name is Ellen the middle on social and Eric Swallwell dot com. And about 38 days to go until voters go to the polls and we're proud that from Senator Schiff to SCIU to California's firefighters and doctors.

We have broad support in this race. And now it's on me. It's my job to make my case across the state and close this thing out and be the one Democrat that gets through so that we can really do the work between June and November, which is building the best team to lead.

But also making sure we win the house seats in California that we're so critical to what we did last November with profit.

Congressman Swallwell, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. One is day plugged in, become a subscribers for a substack at mitesplus.com. You get daily recaps from around Phil Calsky and three episodes of our podcast in more exclusive content only available at mitesplus.com. But what I want to do is not to get a lot of students. The semester-by-tack lab Tobi-ch has often been handed in the internet. So it's a master's real-time. - I say, you can say that you're a jerk. - You're a jerk, right? But you don't understand.

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