2026-04-14T06:19:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
两名曾指控众议员埃里克·斯沃威尔行为不端的女性告诉CBS新闻，尽管在斯沃威尔放弃竞选加州下一任州长并宣布辞去国会席位后，她们感到“清白得到了昭雪”，但仍有工作要做。
“他其实是被逼到了绝路，因为他们当时正计划将他驱逐……所以我认为他这么做是为了保全面子，”曾率先在CNN报道中详细披露指控的艾利·萨马科对CBS新闻说道。“但我也觉得自己的清白得到了证实，他终于明白自己的政治生涯已经到头了。”
首次以指控者身份公开露面的安妮卡·阿尔布雷希特表示：“对我而言，只有当他再也无法伤害任何女性，并且为他所伤害过的女性承担后果时，正义才算实现。”
近期，多名女性指控斯沃威尔存在性行为不端行为，包括性侵指控以及未经请求发送露骨信息和裸照，他的政治抱负就此破灭。这位民主党众议员周一宣布将辞去国会职务，此前一天他刚宣布退出加州州长竞选。
斯沃威尔誓言将回击他所谓的“虚假指控”，并声称这些指控是出于政治动机，旨在破坏他的州长竞选活动。
安妮卡·阿尔布雷希特、艾利·萨马科以及网红夏延·亨特接受了CBS新闻采访，谈论针对民主党众议员埃里克·斯沃威尔的指控。CBS News 摄
阿尔布雷希特和萨马科强烈否认自己是竞争对手候选人或政党协调的竞选活动参与者。
“我们之前互不相识。我之前根本不认识其他任何女性，”萨马科说道。“我对她们一无所知。我们是通过这次事件才联系到一起的，我真的很高兴我们能站出来。”
这一切始于大约两周前，阿尔布雷希特表示她联系了夏延·亨特——一位网红，也是她多年的好友，请求她分享一段视频，讲述自己遭遇斯沃威尔的经历。她表示自己不得不这么做，因为一想到斯沃威尔会成为加州州长，她就“感到身体不适、恶心反胃”。
“从我联系夏延制作视频，到舆论爆发、所有报道刊发，只用了11天时间，”阿尔布雷希特说道，称这段时间是“我们人生中最漫长的11天”。
亨特告诉CBS新闻，视频发布后，她“立刻就收到了铺天盖地的消息”，其他女性纷纷向她指控斯沃威尔的不当行为，她在两小时内就和其中几位通了电话。
亨特表示，其中一名女性描述了一场“彻头彻尾的性侵。那时我才意识到，这件事的规模比我们任何人预想的都要大”，而且“性质严重程度完全不同”。
曼哈顿地区检察官办公室周日向CBS新闻证实，在《旧金山纪事报》刊登一篇报道，披露一名匿名前工作人员指控斯沃威尔在加州和纽约实施性侵后，该办公室正在对针对斯沃威尔的指控展开调查。斯沃威尔否认了这项指控，并威胁要对该女子采取法律行动。
亨特告诉CBS新闻，她听闻的那起所谓性侵案与曼哈顿地区检察官办公室正在调查的案件并非同一桩。
“他曾以为自己能逍遥法外。他行事完全不受约束。他从未想过自己的行为会带来后果，”萨马科说道。
“我认为我们阻止了他再祸害他人长达三四十年的可能性——如果他继续留在国会的话，”她说道。
“作为州长，他会拥有更多权力和职权。而且他也会觉得自己的清白得到了证实，你懂的，他可以竞选更高的职位，”她补充道。“他曾竞选总统，当时没有任何关于他的负面消息曝光。所以我认为这让他更加肆无忌惮，继续为所欲为。”
阿尔布雷希特和萨马科都告诉CBS新闻，她们与斯沃威尔的互动经历颇为相似。
萨马科表示，她是在2021年认识斯沃威尔的，当时她24岁，在弗吉尼亚州前州长特里·麦考利夫的竞选团队中担任初级职位。
她说自己在推特上给斯沃威尔发了消息，因为两人的成长背景相似——都在共和党父母的家庭中长大。她原本以为他根本不会看到自己的消息，但他“回复得相当快”，两人在接下来的一天里继续互发消息，之后转为短信交流——CBS新闻已查看过这些短信。
在短信中，他表示希望帮助她在政坛发展事业，两人一直保持联系。“我当时感觉好极了，”她说，并补充道，“我非常兴奋，也受宠若惊。”
萨马科表示，斯沃威尔后来开始给她发一些“我觉得含义有些怪异”的信息，但她当时“相信他是一位知名人士，不会拿自己的信誉冒险”。
最终，他要求她通过Snapchat沟通，这是一款发送后会自动删除消息的应用程序。她说，自己觉得一名40多岁、已婚且有孩子的男性使用这样的应用程序有些反常，但她害怕失去如此重要的职业人脉。
她说，聊天内容最初还是专业性质的，但后来逐渐变得越来越露骨。
“他给我发他的照片……很多照片里他都在喝酒。他会问我是不是也在喝酒，或者让我和他一起喝一杯，”萨马科说道。她表示，斯沃威尔从未直接要求她给自己发送任何露骨照片，但有一天晚上，他给她发了一张自己生殖器的照片。
“我当时震惊了，”她说。
她告诉CBS新闻，“我想我没有回复”，然后他就转移了话题。
阿尔布雷希特表示，她是在大学一次班级旅行中认识斯沃威尔的。她和其他几名学生与他会面，讨论他们认为重要的议题，斯沃威尔看起来兴致勃勃、充满热情。
会议结束时，她说他让学生们创建一个群聊，以便他可以继续和他们讨论相关议题。阿尔布雷希特表示，群聊创建后，他几乎立刻就加了她的Snapchat好友。
“我当时非常惊讶，也很困惑。我没想到真的是他，”她说。阿尔布雷希特问群里的其他人，斯沃威尔是否也加了他们的Snapchat好友，但他们都说没有。阿尔布雷希特补充说，她是群里唯一的女性。
和萨马科一样，阿尔布雷希特也梦想着从政，她说斯沃威尔开始以“职业指导”的名义和她聊天，告诉她可以帮助她实现有朝一日成为幕僚长的理想工作。
她说，Snapchat上的消息“开始变味，变得越来越调情”，但她以“柏拉图式且专业的方式”进行了回应。最终，她说斯沃威尔的信息越过了界限，变得“具有性暗示且不得体”。
阿尔布雷希特表示，有一天晚上，斯沃威尔邀请她去酒店见面，“意图非常明显”。她说自己没有回复。
“我一直在想，我没去那家酒店真是太幸运了，”阿尔布雷希特说道，她指的是《旧金山纪事报》的那篇报道，该报道披露一名女子称，2019年9月她和斯沃威尔外出喝酒后，醒来发现自己赤身裸体躺在他的酒店床上，对当晚发生的事情几乎毫无记忆，斯沃威尔对此予以否认。
“接到那些女性的电话，听她们讲述自己如何和他一起喝酒，然后突然醒来发现躺在他身边、完全不记得是怎么到那里的经历，真是太可怕了，”阿尔布雷希特说道。
亨特表示，她从两名女性那里听到了类似的指控，自她发布最初的视频以来，已有超过30名女性联系她，指控斯沃威尔存在各种形式的不当行为。
亨特还回忆起多年前她在国会山工作时，就通过耳语网络收到过关于斯沃威尔的警告，她告诉CBS新闻，有人对她说：“离斯沃威尔远点。不要在社交媒体上和他互动。不要单独和他见面。”
但尽管斯沃威尔即将离开国会，人们仍有一些担忧。
“我现在就想看到他下台，”阿尔布雷希特说道，她指出斯沃威尔宣布辞职的声明中，仍保留了他可能在一段时间内继续担任议员的可能性。
“他给人的印象是一个顾家的男人，一个斗士，一个女性的捍卫者。但事实绝非如此，”萨马科在谈到斯沃威尔时说道。
“如果这些就是那些站出来倡导女性权益、号称是女性保护者，还说‘我们要追究他人责任’的人，那么在闭门背后他们却在做这种事，这对于任何在政坛工作的人来说都是巨大的反差，”她补充道。
亨特表示，站出来指控的女性“得到了支持，她们的勇气受到了极大的尊重”。
但“这场战斗还没有结束。我们才刚刚开始，”她说，并补充道，“显然，我们需要另一场清算。”
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2 Swalwell accusers discuss his downfall and the fear of coming forward: “He thought he was untouchable”
2026-04-14T06:19:00-0400 / CBS News
Two women who have accused Rep. Eric Swalwell of misconduct told CBS News that, while they feel “vindicated” now that he has dropped his bid to become California’s next governor and will resign from his seat in Congress, there is still work to be done.
“He was pushed into a corner, essentially, because they were planning to expel him… so i think he did that to save face a little,” Ally Sammarco, whose accusations were first detailed in a CNN report, told CBS News. “But I also felt very vindicated that he realized it was over for him.”
Annika Albrecht, who is publicly coming forward as an accuser for the first time, said, “For me, justice won’t be until he can’t ever harm a woman ever again, and he has faced the consequences for the women that he has harmed.”
Swalwell’s political ambitions have unraveled in recent days as he’s been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, including allegations of sexual assault and sending unsolicited explicit messages and nude photos. The Democratic congressman announced Monday that he will be resigning from Congress, one day after he said he was dropping out of the California gubernatorial race.
Swalwell has vowed to fight what he called the “false allegations” and has claimed they were politically motivated to hurt his gubernatorial bid.
Annika Albrecht, Ally Sammarco and influencer Cheyenne Hunt spoke to CBS News about the allegations against Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. CBS News
Albrecht and Sammarco vehemently deny any accusations they were part of a coordinated campaign from a rival candidate or party.
“We didn’t know each other before. I didn’t know any of the other women,” Sammarco said. “I knew nothing about them. We got connected through this process, and I’m so glad we did.”
That process started about two weeks ago, when Albrecht says she contacted Cheyenne Hunt, an influencer and friend of many years, asking her to share a video with her story about Swalwell. She said she felt compelled to do so because she felt “physically sick and nauseous” at the idea of Swalwell becoming governor of California.
“Eleven days is how long it took from when I reached out to Cheyenne to make the video to when the dam broke and all the articles were published,” Albrecht said, calling them “the longest 11 days of our lives.”
Hunt told CBS News that after posting the video, she was “immediately slammed” with messages from other women accusing Swalwell of inappropriate behavior, and she was on the phone with some of them within two hours.
Hunt said one of the women described a “full-on assault. That was when I realized this was a lot bigger than any of us knew,” and was a “different level of severity.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed to CBS News on Sunday that it is investigating allegations against Swalwell after the San Francisco Chronicle published a story detailing an unnamed former staffer’s accusations of sexual assault in California and in New York. Swalwell denied it and threatened to take legal action against the woman.
Hunt told CBS News the alleged assault she was told about is separate from the one being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
“He thought he was untouchable. He acted with total impunity. He never thought that the consequences of his actions would follow him,” Sammarco said.
“I think we just prevented another 30 to 40 years, potentially, of him harming people if he were to stay in Congress,” she said.
“As governor, he would have had even more power and more authority. And he would have felt vindicated too, you know, that he could run for higher office,” she added. ” He ran for president and nothing came out about him. So I think that empowered him to continue doing what he was doing.”
Both Albrecht and Sammarco told CBS News they had had similar interactions with Swalwell.
Sammarco said she met Swalwell in 2021, when she was 24 and working in an entry level role on a political campaign for former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
She said she messaged Swalwell on Twitter because they had similar upbringings – both grew up in homes with Republican parents. She figured he wouldn’t even see her message, but says he responded “fairly quickly” and the two continued messaging each other over the next day before moving to text messages, which CBS News has reviewed.
In the messages, he said he wanted to help her further her career in politics, and the two kept in touch. “I felt like a million bucks” she said, adding, “I was thrilled, and I was flattered.”
Sammarco said Swalwell eventually began to send her messages that “I thought had a weird connotation to them,” but she said she “trusted that he was an established figure who wouldn’t put his credibility on the line.”
Eventually, he asked her to communicate via Snapchat, a messaging app that deletes messages after they’re sent. She said she thought it was unusual for a man in his 40s who was married and had children to be using such an app, but she was afraid of possibly losing such an important professional connection.
She said the messages again started out professional but then slowly became more explicit.
“He was sending me photos of his face….he was drinking in a lot of them. He would ask me if I was drinking too or tell me I should have a drink with him,” she said. Sammarco said he never directly asked her to send him any explicit pictures of her, but that one night he sent her a photo of his penis.
“I was shocked,” she said.
She told CBS News, “I don’t think I responded,” and said he changed the subject and moved on.
Albrecht says she met Swalwell while on a class trip in college. She and a group of other students met with him to discuss issues they thought were important, and Swalwell appeared interested and passionate, she said.
At the end of the meeting, she says he asked the students to create a group chat so he could continue discussing the issues with them. Albrecht said after that group chat was created, he added her on Snapchat almost immediately.
“I was really surprised. I was confused. I didn’t think it was him,” she said. Albrecht said she asked the others in the group if Swalwell had also added them as contacts on Snapchat, but they said he had not. Albrecht added that she was the only woman in the group.
Albrecht, like Sammarco, also dreamed of working in politics, and said Swalwell began talking to her “under the guise of professional mentorship,” telling her he could help her achieve her dream job of one day becoming a chief of staff.
She said the Snapchat messages “started to take a turn and they started to get flirty,” but she responded in a “platonic and professional manner.” Eventually, she said, Swalwell’s messages crossed the line into “sexually inappropriate.”
Albrecht said one night, Swalwell invited her to a hotel to meet him, and it was “very clear what the connotation was.” She says she didn’t respond.
“I keep thinking about how lucky I am that didn’t go to that hotel,” Albrecht said, referring to the Chronicle’s report detailing the accusation of a woman who said that after going out for drinks with Swalwell in September 2019, she woke up naked in his hotel bed with little recollection of the night, which Swallwell denies.
“It was terrifying to get on the phone with those women and hear their stories about how they were drinking with him and suddenly woke up in bed next to him with no recollection of how they got there,” Albrecht said.
Hunt says she has heard similar accusations from two women, and that more than 30 women have reached out to her with some form of misconduct accusation against Swalwell since she posted her initial video.
Hunt also recalled how she was warned about Swalwell through a whisper network years ago when she was working on Capitol Hill, telling CBS News that people told her, “Stay away from Swalwell. Do not engage with him on social media. Do not be alone with him.”
But while Swalwell is set to exit Congress, there is still some trepidation.
“I want to see him out now,” Albrecht said, noting his statement announcing his resignation leaves open the possibility he could remain in his seat for a while.
“He gave off this perception that he was a family man. That he was a fighter. That he was a defender of women. And that couldn’t be further from the truth,” Sammarco said of Swalwell.
“If these are the people that are out there championing women and, you know, protectors of women, and ‘We need to hold people accountable,’ and then behind closed doors they’re doing this, that is a huge discrepancy for anybody who’s working in politics,” she added.
Hunt said the women who have come forward have “been embraced and that their bravery is being so greatly respected.”
But “this fight is not over. We’re just getting started,” she said, adding, “It’s clear that there needs to be another reckoning.”
Watch more of the interview Tuesday on “CBS Mornings” and the “CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil.”
Caitlin Yilek contributed to this report.
