On Ruben Gallego, We Told You So

Arizona senator Ruben Gallego (D.) is in the news—and here's what you need to know: The aspiring 2028 presidential candidate is either deaf, dumb, and blind or a degenerate liar. There's really no other possible explanation for his supporting role in the saga of Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.).

Gallego was Swalwell's Capitol Hill roommate and longtime wingman. With Swalwell dropping his bid for governor of California and resigning his seat in Congress in the face of numerous accusations of sexual assault and sexual harassment—plus a video depicting him rolling around on a bed in Las Vegas with an escort—some people are quite reasonably wondering: What did Gallego know and when did he know it?

Gallego, the chairman of Swalwell's short-lived 2020 presidential campaign and a backer of his gubernatorial bid, responded to the news of impending and explosive allegations against his best friend forever with a statement that Swalwell was being victimized because he's just that good. "When you are in first place, is when they target you," Gallego said on X. "Eric is a fighter and he will win the Governors [sic] race." That was just one week ago.

Now Gallego says he never knew his own roommate, a man the Arizona Mirror—a Democrat-funded fake news rag—described as "one of Gallego's closest friends in Congress."

So did Gallego get in on the action? Looking like "a deer in the headlights," according to our friend Rachael Bade—Gallego told reporters that, actually, he was victimized by Swalwell, too. "This man led a double life," he said. "I was manipulated, I was lied to." Just the kind of man Americans want dealing with Xi Jinping.

Gallego also said his friendship with Swalwell "clouded my judgment" but identified no actual missteps, which is just the sort of statement Swalwell issued a few days back when he apologized for unidentified "mistakes in judgment in my past" while vehemently denying all of the allegations against him.

We welcome the legacy media's interest in Gallego's transgressions, but we can't resist reminding them that there may have been a few signs the Arizona senator wasn't on the up and up.

When Gallego filed for divorce in 2016, he managed to seal even the existence of the case on the docket, citing the fact that he was a "high profile public official." The Free Beacon waged a successful battle to unseal those records, which revealed that Gallego blindsided his pregnant wife, who was "likely to give birth any day," when he served her with divorce papers—and then demanded she pay his legal bills. He remarried a lobbyist 14 years his junior in short order, announcing their engagement in 2020 with great fanfare even though they were actually already married. Yes, you read that right.

The media weren't much interested in any of this. The Associated Press told us at the time, "Ruben Gallego divorce records unsealed but reveal little about Democratic Senate candidate." The records, the news wire said, "offer little insight into the high-profile marriage or the reasons it fell apart." National Public Radio, then on the taxpayer dime, quoted a Tucson divorce attorney who said the records reveal "a relatively speedy and clearly amicable separation," adding, "It's likely the Gallegos had agreed to most of the terms of their separation before filing for divorce."

Gallego is either one of the few people on Capitol Hill who hadn't gotten wind of Swalwell's misdeeds or an enabler and participant in them, and either scenario is a non-starter for a serious presidential contender. It is worth bearing in mind that the Democratic establishment shivved Swalwell when he became a liability in a crowded primary. When Gallego's turn in the barrel comes and the press touts the power of "investigative reporting," well, you heard it here first.

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