Reporter Who Admits She Had Info on Swalwell Abuse During Chinese Spy Investigation But Didn't Pursue It Blames... Conservative Media

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian has become one of the faces of the Eric Swalwell story. She’s not particularly happy about it.

She’s not one of the victims, nor one of Swalwell’s former partners. She’s not a campaign staffer. She’s not in the official Democratic Party apparatus, period. In fact, she started out being particularly congratulatory to herself about it.

See, Allen-Ebrahimian is one of the reporters who broke the story for Axios, in 2020, that Swalwell had been linked with a Chinese spy who was known to sexually target California politicians for information to pass along to Beijing.

While the reporters did not explicitly say so, the implication was that Swalwell — a candidate for president that cycle, in case you’ve forgotten — had slept with a spy and neglected to tell us. Even though he wasn’t married at the time, this was still compromising and damning.

Then came the fusillade ofsexual abuse allegations against Swalwell, who was prohibitively the frontrunner for governor among Democrats in California.

Allen-Ebrahimian chimed in again, saying that she’d actually heard these rumors back during the Fang Fang story, but she couldn’t pursue it because (get this) it wasn’t part of her beat, which was Chinese infiltration of American politicians by compromising them.

Social media and conservative outlets pilloried her, not just because of the admission but because of the inchoate logic: Your beat was China getting compromising information on American politicians, and you had information that would gravely compromise an American politician, but you couldn’t pursue it because that was outside of your wheelhouse?

This was already absurd, and one did begin to feel bad about Allen-Ebrahimian; she’d begun the story puffing out her chest a bit and ended as a figure of derision. Perhaps too much of one? No, as she amply proved late last week by saying the real reason behind the liberal media’s failure to report the Swalwell story in a timely manner was actually … conservative media.

It’s a new strain of logic forlegacy media failures, I’ll give her that much.

Let’s start from the beginning of the former Axios reporter’s crash-out, which began with a now-deleted humblebrag: “Rumors about Eric Swalwell’s sexual misconduct have swirled in D.C. for years,” Allen-Ebrahimian wrote.

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