Former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) could face decades behind bars if he is convicted of rape, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. Swalwell resigned on Tuesday afternoon following multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, including two allegations of sexual assault. One stems from an alleged 2018 incident in West Hollywood, California, while other claims are reportedly under investigation in New York City by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “Let’s just put it this way. Based upon an allegation that’s already been made of possibly drugging, choking, and then raping a woman,” Pirro said. “You’re talking about decades in prison.” Pirro said her office is reviewing tips she has received since Tuesday. She posted to X, urging “anyone with credible information or complaints involving similar conduct in the District of Columbia to contact my office’s hotline 202-252-0809.” “We’ve gotten some, but we’re trying to make sense as to whether or not they involve this jurisdiction or whether they involve a crime at all,” Pirro said. “We have to go through a process where we actually review that and not just count the numbers.” She added that while there are no other members of Congress currently on her radar, she believes the culture of exploited power dynamics on Capitol Hill appears to be going strong. “The old boy network is alive and well, and it is infuriating, especially with someone like me who’s been prosecuting these cases since the early ’80s,” Pirro noted. “There is silence, and there is secrecy, and unfortunately, there’s a failure by Congress to hold its own members accountable,” she added. “But when you think about it, who has more power than someone in Congress? You know, their power is wielded on a daily basis. They make laws, they repeal laws, they amend laws. This is an incredible imbalance in the power between a perpetrator and a victim,” she said. “Those of us who’ve been in the trenches, biting this stuff for decades, just keep thinking it gets better, but it doesn’t. And this has to stop.” Swalwell has not been formally charged in connection with the allegations, including the 2018 California incident described at a press conference on Tuesday. “He raped me, and he choked me. And while he was choking me, I lost consciousness,” model Lonna Drewes alleged. “And I thought I died. I did not consent to any sexual activity.” “My delay in taking action against Eric was driven by fear, not doubt. Fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties,” Drewes added. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the allegations, CBS News reported. Despite his resignation from Congress and decision to exit the California governor’s race, Swalwell said Monday that he “will fight the serious, false allegation made against me,” prior to the second rape accuser coming forward. “However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make,” he stated. In total, five individuals have publicly accused the former congressman of misconduct, including allegations that he sent inappropriate images over Snapchat to young women, CNN reported.

Actress Sydney Sweeney is once again appearing in an American Eagle ad campaign, months after a previous promotion sparked widespread backlash.  “What brand am I wearing?” Sweeney asks in the new commercial while sporting denim shorts. “Yeah, that one,” the “Euphoria” star says as the words “SYD FOR SHORT” flash across the screen.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Sydney Sweeney (@sydney_sweeney) The new ad spot references the original jeans campaign, which made headlines for months and delivered a significant boost to the company’s sales.  Last summer, all hell broke loose over the campaign featuring Sweeney in various seductive poses while saying she had “good jeans.” The double entendre with the word “genes” made leftists deem the ad racist, noting that Sweeney is white with blond hair and blue eyes. In one of the ads, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.” American Eagle responded to the backlash at the time with a statement defending the campaign. “‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story,” the company said. “We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.” Despite leftist calls for a boycott, the denim collection did exceptionally well, with most of the featured pieces selling out.  American Eagle’s chief marketing officer, Craig Brommers, told USA Today that the company’s stock jumped by 22% thanks to that campaign. “A vast, vast, vast majority of Americans understood that the campaign was about jeans,” Brommers told the outlet, crediting Sweeney’s “duality” of being both casual and glamorous as the reason for the campaign’s success. “American Eagle has a store in all 50 states and during that campaign, we saw new customer acquisition grow in every single county in America,” he added. “It is a fact that it was the most successful campaign in the history of the American Eagle brand.”  “The world is curious and the world will be talking when we launch the campaign,” Brommers said. “As we learned in the fall campaign, there is noise, but there are also facts as well, and we’re excited to see where this campaign takes our brand.”

More than 1,000 celebrities, many of whom are overwhelmingly leftist, expressed their “unequivocal opposition” to the upcoming merger between Warner Bros. and Paramount. Actors Bryan Cranston, Alyssa Milano, Cynthia Nixon, Jane Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Don Cheadle, Jason Bateman, and Ted Danson added their names to the letter, along with big-name directors like J.J. Abrams, David Chase, and Denis Villeneuve. “This transaction would further consolidate an already concentrated media landscape, reducing competition at a moment when our industries — and the audiences we serve — can least afford it,” the letter says. “The result will be fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs, and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world. Alarmingly, this merger would reduce the number of major U.S. film studios to just four.” It goes on, “We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good. The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised.” The letter ends with a call to action, namely that California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other regulators block the deal. Paramount released a response Monday morning. They promised to “create a company that can greenlight more projects, back bold ideas, support talent across multiple stages of their careers, and bring stories to audiences at a truly global scale.” “We hear and understand the concerns that some in our creative community have raised and respect the commitment to protecting and expanding creativity,” their letter states.  “We understand the concerns raised as a result of the disruptions caused to our industry by COVID, entry of big-tech, and changes in consumer behavior, but we promise this: Paramount remains deeply committed to talent, and this merger strengthens both consumer choice and competition, creating greater opportunities for creators, audiences, and the communities they live and work in.” Warner Bros. agreed in December to an $82.7 billion deal with Netflix. Paramount responded with several hostile takeover bids over the following months, culminating in a surprise twist as the streaming giant bowed out in February. “… this transaction was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price,” Sarandos and Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said in a statement at the time, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

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Candidates will likely take aim at health insurance companies on the campaign trail this election cycle, according to new polling. Eighty-one percent of likely voters said they “would be more likely to vote for a candidate who wants to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse in government health care and health insurance programs,” according to a new survey conducted by the Insurance Watchdog Coalition and OnMessage Public Strategies. “The cost of health insurance is near the top of the list of affordability issues now, for a big chunk of American voters,” OnMessage pollster Wes Anderson told The Daily Wire. “I’m sure the insurance companies want themselves not to be in the spotlight, but I think gravity is gonna take us that way, because for too many middle-class families, their health insurance costs are starting to rival their mortgage payments,” Anderson added. The poll also found that Americans have a 78% unfavorable opinion of health insurance companies, with only 17% viewing them favorably. Respondents said Congress should prioritize health insurance companies, while pharmaceutical companies were also cited as an industry deserving greater scrutiny. Support for more aggressive action against insurers was also high. Ninety percent of those polled said they believe health insurance companies should be broken up, and 70% said they would be “more likely” to back a political candidate who supports such a move. Similarly, 84% of respondents said they would back a candidate who “takes on insurance companies to lower costs,” while 86% said they would be “less likely to vote for a candidate funded by big insurance companies.” The findings come as healthcare costs remain a major issue in Washington. The Trump administration in February launched what it calls “TrumpRx,” an initiative to “find the world’s lowest prices on prescription drugs.” Broader healthcare policy debates are continuing following the expiration of some Affordable Care Act subsidies at the end of last year. The administration has also proposed drastic changes to the current system through what it has branded “The Great Healthcare Plan.” “The Great Healthcare Plan stops sending big insurance companies billions in extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead send that money directly to eligible Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice,” according to the White House, adding that the plan would also include “a cost-sharing reduction program for healthcare plans.” The path forward on health insurance policy will likely fall on Congress, as both parties are in a heated battle for control of the legislative branch for the second half of Trump’s term. Republicans currently hold narrow majorities in both chambers, and issues like healthcare could be deciding factors for voters in November. The survey was conducted from April 8-11 among 1,000 likely voters across the United States and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.