The Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Swalwell pal Sen. Ruben Gallego's skeletons are climbing out of the closet

 

Swalwell pal Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post

By

Steven Nelson

Published July 16, 2026

 Updated July 16, 2026, 2:39 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his “very flirtatious” habits with others may come back to haunt him, The Post has learned.

The 46-year-old lawmaker admitted to the two relationships — both with aides to Texas Democrats — to one source while a second person said they had recently learned of the romantic entanglements.

A third source confirmed one of the dalliances, both of which are said to have been consensual and occurred during Gallego’s decade representing Phoenix in the House.

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Sen. Ruben Gallego, a Democrat from Arizona, looks at a phone while riding the Senate Subway during a vote at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. Sources tell The Post he had sexual relationships with two House staffers.

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The relationships are part of a broader “pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls,” one source said, noting the imbalanced power dynamics of an elected official dating staffers. One of the women was in her 20s and much younger than Gallego at the time.

“What else could there be out there?” this person asked.

Last month, the Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint brought against Gallego by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) that alleged campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct against the Democrat, who was elected to the Senate in 2024.

The panel, chaired by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), “didn’t ask” about Gallego’s relationships with the staffers — likely because it was unaware — and instead “focused squarely on what Luna presented to them,” an insider said this week.

“Ethics looked in the wrong place,” this person summed up the congressional probe.

Gallego’s office and the two House staffers did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment. 

Minutes after this article was published, the senator gave a non-denial to an NBC News journalist on Capitol Hill, uttering, “I’m not going to engage in gossip.”

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Gallego is considered a 2028 presidential contender by Democrats.

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When asked if The Post’s reporting was accurate, Gallego again said, “I’m not going to engage in gossip.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sputtered, “I’m not — I’m focused on this right now” when asked by Fox News about Gallego’s conduct.

Sources said it’s believed both relationships occurred while Gallego was unmarried.

Rumors have swirled about Gallego’s personal life following the April resignation of his best friend in Congress, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), amid claims by multiple women that Swalwell sexually harassed or assaulted them. Gallego has denied knowledge of Swalwell’s alleged misconduct.

Luna claimed in a CBS News interview April 16 that a woman was preparing to speak out about an “incident” involving Gallego and Swalwell “at the same time, and the event was sexual in nature, allegedly.”

On April 23, Luna claimed on social media that “I have now heard of 4 women who have had multiple and uncomfortable/inappropriate advances/comments/touching, etc. from Senator Gallego.”

Gallego responded to the Ethics Committee’s dismissal of Luna’s complaint by calling the allegations “right-wing conspiracies peddled by far-right activists like Anna Paulina Luna, the White House, and their allies” and demanding an apology.

“The good news about DC is everyone talks, and eventually the reporters come forward with your texts,” Luna responded in an X post. “Do yourself a favor and keep raising for your legal defense fund. Once a creep always a creep, and you’re gonna need it.” 

Gallego married his current wife, Sydney, in June 2021 — three years after they met at the June 2018 Congressional Baseball Game.

He filed for divorce from his first wife, Kate,10 days before Christmas in 2016 when she was nine months pregnant. The divorce was granted in April 2017.

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AZ. Senator Ruben Gallego with Sydney Gallego and their kids: daughter Isla and son Cooper.

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Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) was already under a Senate ethics investigation.

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Luna responded to The Post’s report on X: “Time to resign. Glad people are going on record about this creep.”

“This scumbag doesn’t deserve the privilege of representing the people of Arizona,” wrote Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.). “Ruben Gallego should follow his buddy Swalwell’s lead and resign.”

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) added: “Congress needs to step up, do the right thing, and force expulsion.”

Relationships between lawmakers and their own staff members were banned in 2018 and there’s a post-Swalwell push underway to ban relations with all congressional staff.

Sexual encounters between elected representatives and staff from other offices generally are not banned by congressional ethics rules. Other conduct such as sexual harassment is not allowed.

Internal investigations can turn up damaging information.

For example, The Post reported April 18 that Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) — a close friend of Gallego and Swalwell and the third member of their so-called “Cool Kids Clique” — was spotted kissing a Swalwell aide at a DC house party in the summer of 2023.

Gomez confessed in June to cheating on his wife after CNN reported that the House Ethics Committee “learned of other allegations of sexual misconduct” against him while investigating the initial Post report.

“If the Ethics Committee comes back and says, ‘We are opening an investigation,’ question one [for Gallego] is: ‘Did you ever have relationships with any staff member during your time in Congress?'” a source said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more that he has to list, and he can’t lie about that because, you know, it’s a sworn [statement].”

A Democratic operative who has interacted with Gallego said she found news of the staffer relationships “not surprising.”

“I have witnessed firsthand his very flirtatious nature after a couple of drinks,” she said. “Maybe he thinks he’s being charming? I don’t know. Guy gives me the creeps. I’ve always steered clear.”

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Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., left, and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., were close friends in the House.

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There’s a long, bipartisan tradition of members of Congress having personal baggage. “Pro-life” Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) has been re-elected repeatedly despite the revelations in 2023 that he had urged abortions for both his ex-wife and mistress.

Many members of Congress resign in the face of sexual scandals, however, including former Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.), who stepped down in 2019 due to a relationship with a campaign aide.

Earlier this year, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) resigned over an affair with a district staffer who killed herself. 

In addition to the senator’s personal life, Gallego faces another headache in the form of a Justice Department investigation into his alleged misuse of campaign funds to attend the Super Bowl in 2023 as well as to take vacations to St. Barts, Disney World and Disneyland. Gallego said the Trump DOJ was “targeting” him for political reasons.

Despite the controversies, another Democratic insider told The Post Gallego still hopes to occupy the Oval Office someday.

“He wants to, but it’s getting harder,” this source said. “If he changes his behavior and actually locks in, he could do it. It would be hard. But I don’t see it right now. It’s unfortunate.”

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Islam in Germany > 75% of gang rapes committed mostly by Muslims in Germany; Migrant chases kids with knife at trainstation

 

In Germany, Foreigners, Mostly From Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey, Commit 53% of Gang Rapes

Jul 16, 2026 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald5 Comments

And those foreigners are from such countries as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey — in other words, they are overwhelmingly Muslims. More on those gang rapes can be found here: 

Germany: Record high 53% of gang rape suspects were foreigners in 2025, 751 victims gang raped

Remix News, July 10, 2026:

The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Note that the German government does not as a matter of course make such information public. It was only because Alice Weidel, the leader of the anti-Muslim immigrant party, the Alternative für Deutschland, made a request in the Bundestag that such information about the background of those gang rapists was released.

According to the statistics, 53 percent of the suspects — a total of 574 — did not have German citizenship in gang rape cases. Broken down by nationality, 110 suspects came from Syria, 64 from Afghanistan, 46 from Iraq, 44 from Turkey, and the rest from other countries, Focus Online reported.

German police Mercedes,

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Note that 53% of the suspects in gang rape cases were non-citizens, and overwhelmingly they were from Muslim countries. But many Muslims who have been naturalized, and who have committed gang rapes, are included in the government crime statistics only as “Germans.”

Among the victims, 80 percent were German citizens.

While the report discloses that 509 suspects came from Germany, data about a possible migration background among German citizens was not recorded separately. Previous studies have shown that when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, a total of 75 percent of gang rapes are committed by individuals with a foreign first name.

Doing the math - reveals that 563 of the 751 gang rapes were committed most likely by Muslims. 

Names such as Mohammad, Muhammad, Mahmoud, Ahmad, Ahmed, Ali, Hussein, and Khaled of course indicate that their bearers are Muslims. Three-quarters of all the gang rapists in Germany bear such names.

The high number of foreigners involved in gang rape cases comes at a time when more and more foreigners have been naturalized as German citizens. Millions of migrants also have dual citizenship and whenever they rape, murder or steal, their crimes are recorded as “German” in the federal crime statistics….

It is not only Muslims who are non-citizens who are responsible for gang rapes in such great numbers, but also Muslims who have been naturalized. But those first-generation citizens are now counted in the government crime statistics only as “German.” Their Muslim identity can, however, be deduced from their first names.

The AfD wants a true picture of migrant criminals, whether they are citizens or not, to be made public. Once those figures are known, showing how great are the number of Muslim criminals in Germany who are guilty of both crimes of violence, such as gang rapes, assaults, and murder, and also of crimes of property, including street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting, as well as drug trafficking and pimping — the public will be so outraged as to demand quicker trials, longer prison sentences, and more frequent deportation after those sentences have been served.

During a session in the Bundestag earlier this month, Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Alice Weidel described a case from Nuremberg in which migrants allegedly subjugated underage girls with drugs and forced them into prostitution. Her speech was met with loud interjections in the plenary session, including laughter. According to the official Bundestag minutes, a specific MP, the Left Party’s Katrin Fey, laughed at this specific point in the address.

What could the left-wing MP, Katrin Fey, do? Unable to deny the truth of Alice Weidel’s story about a Muslim grooming gang in Nuremberg, she and her fellow members in Das Linke — the Left Party — could only feign amusement, as if Weidel’s unanswerable evidence were just too silly to require a response other than laughter. But Fey’s inability to respond, except with hollow laughter, was telling.

Now we have the following facts: Foreigners commit 53% of the gang rapes in Germany. These foreigners are overwhelmingly Muslims, from such countries as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria, and Turkey. And both citizens and foreigners who can be identified by their first names as Muslims constitute 75% of those who commit gang rapes. Thanks to Alice Weidel of the AfD, who has forced the government to make public these facts that it has been reluctant to reveal, the German public, now better informed, can demand that there be swifter trials, longer sentences, and stripping of citizenship for those convicted of major crimes, as well as more frequent use of deportation for these criminals. And of course, the most effective way to end the steady rise in crime in the country is to call a complete halt to Muslim immigration into Germany. That will only come when the AfD is swept into office in the next election, a result that sober psephologists tell us is now almost certain.

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Germany: Muslim migrant chases passersby, including schoolchildren, with a knife

Jul 17, 2026 9:00 am By Robert Spencer1 Comment

This is life in the new Germany. This is what it means that, as Angela Merkel vowed, “we can do this.” Germans can do it, all right, as long as they remain able to outrun the knife-wielding migrants. But what sane nation would do this to itself? What sane society would continue to elect leaders who do this to their country?

Afghan man chases passersby with knife, WhatsApp screenshot, Junge Freiheit

Afghan Man Chases Passersby with a Knife Here

translated from “Hier jagt ein Afghane Passanten mit dem Messer,” Junge Freiheit, July 15, 2026 (thanks to Medforth):

Germany | July 15, 2026:

RUHPOLDING. On Wednesday morning, an Afghan man apparently attempted to stab several people at the Ruhpolding train station. As the incident occurred early in the morning, schoolchildren were involved; they fled the station and subsequently hid. According to current information, no one was injured. The suspected knife attacker has been arrested. The Afghan man is reportedly an asylum seeker who is already known to the police.

In response to an inquiry by JUNGE FREIHEIT, a police spokesperson stated that the investigation against the Afghan man is currently limited to charges of making threats. Because the incident took place at the train station, the Federal Police are also involved in the investigation. Footage exclusively obtained by JF shows the Afghan man lunging at passersby with a drawn knife, making a stabbing motion toward a man’s back, and chasing after the victims.

A female witness told JF that the Afghan man had already been acting strangely on the train, speaking incoherently on the phone and causing a disturbance. A ticket inspector subsequently asked the man to leave the carriage, at which point he allegedly shoved her. When another conductor rushed over to assist, the Afghan man reportedly drew a blade measuring a good 15 centimeters in length.

The witness reported that a group of schoolchildren fled the train and sought refuge in a local bakery. Thanks to an emergency call placed immediately, police arrived at the scene within minutes. A police support station has currently been set up at the elementary school gymnasium to take witness statements and determine exactly who was threatened and pursued by the man.

Police told *JF* that investigators intend to release further details by the afternoon. When asked, the police could not yet disclose the man’s exact residency status, how long he has lived in Germany, or whether he resides in the Ruhpolding asylum shelter that features a swimming pool, citing the ongoing investigation.