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Multiple women have come forward to accuse him of various forms of sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault. More allegations may be brewing, as rumors swirl, but Swalwell is asserting his innocence.
The “sexual assault allegations are flat false,” he said in a video statement published on Friday. “They are absolutely false. They did not happen. They have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have.”
The embattled lawmaker and leading gubernatorial candidate appeared to confess to extramarital impropriety, while rejecting any claim of non-consensual activity: “I’ve certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife.
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