Ruben Gallego Is Still Trying to Run Away From | Political News
We have not heard a lot about former Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-14) over the last couple of weeks, presumably because the investigations are persevering with into the disturbing allegations of inappropriate assault that had been made against him earlier this month, claims which resulted in his exit from the California gubernatorial race and his resignation from Congress.
Someone else who we’ve not heard a lot from past canned social media posts is Swalwell’s (now-former?) bestie, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), whose well-documented bromance was the stuff of legends in Capitol Hill Democrat political circles. At one level, they had been roommates in D.C. and going on abroad junkets with their respective wives, including one to Qatar, where they (Swalwell and Gallego) infamously posed for cringe photographs shirtless while using camels.
Hmm. I appear to recall Ruben Gallego and his boy Eric Swalwell using camels on a junket to Qatar. When they had been shutting down American companies during the pandemic.https://t.co/6JCmtKzolH https://t.co/2hLZJQcbsK pic.twitter.com/io4UhTuLrj
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 12, 2025
As RedState beforehand reported, when the story of the inappropriate harassment allegations first broke, Gallego’s first intuition was to attempt to solid doubt. As the week went on, however, Gallego, who was also chairman of Swalwell’s failed 2020 presidential marketing campaign, started to change his tune, saying he believed the ladies who had been accusing his best buddy of rape. Later, he went full-on “deer in headlights” when requested if he’d ever noticed suspicious conduct.
Gallego’s stock responses have been to recommend that Swalwell was dwelling a “double life” and that he had no concept of it past some “flirting” he had heard about but did not imagine, a moderately handy declare contemplating as just lately as November of 2025, Swalwell was lovingly referring to Gallego as an extraordinarily close pal, calling him his “best friend in the world,” a assertion Gallego embraced without objection.
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When last we checked, GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) had referred allegations that had been “inappropriate in nature” against Gallego himself (and which Luna said presumably had an ingredient of human trafficking to them) to Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), who in flip said he’d forwarded them to the Senate Ethics Committee for investigation.
Gallego has denied any wrongdoing, stating without evidence through a spokesman that the allegations had been “right-wing conspiracy theories being parroted by a fringe far-right member of Congress.” Interestingly, it was eerily related to how Swalwell had initially characterised the allegations against himself.
In an update to this story, it seems that Gallego is still attempting to run away from Swalwell. And it appears prefer it’s still not working, as he is now been caught not being upfront about how often he is frolicked with or related with Swalwell in current years:
NEW Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego caught in a LIE about Eric Swalwell
Claims he was “missing” and “not around” Swalwell after 2021
(Also, allegations start 2018)
FALSE – Receipts: pic.twitter.com/V9TxpHhmME
— Ben Petersen (@bennpetersen) April 28, 2026
YIKES 🚨 @RubenGallego just told @AnaNavarro he did not know about @EricSwalwell b/c he was “missing” and “not around” since 2021
Here are only A FEW of Gallego’s interactions and holidays with Swalwell from ’21 to ’23
SOURCE: https://t.co/d3CSKSosEjhttps://t.co/CrGVqfKwUZ pic.twitter.com/PSIzG2gZdw
— Brian Anderson (@AZBrianAnderson) April 28, 2026
There was also the November 2025 event, as we famous earlier.
If Ruben Gallego has nothing to cover, why does he seem to be fudging the small print on time spent with Swalwell over the last few years?
On top of all this, Luna is now saying 4 ladies have alleged inappropriate misconduct by Gallego. She even claimed there was a reporter, whom Luna’s been told allegedly has textual content receipts of Gallego being “very inappropriately explicit and inappropriate,” and she’s hoping the reporter will come ahead.
🚨 HOLY S-HT- Anna Paulina-Luna says ” These are no longer just rumors ” – (4) ladies have come ahead with allegations of inappropriate misconduct by Ruben Gallego
Inappropriate advances, feedback, Gallego had taken his own ear wax and rubbed it on one of these ladies
CHARGE HIM pic.twitter.com/PIrc6DDiXH
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) April 27, 2026
I’ve now heard of 4 ladies who have had a number of and uncomfortable/inappropriate advances/feedback/touching, and so forth. from Senator Gallego. This is just not made up and the Senate is being awfully quiet about it. https://t.co/LcYivkWHwC
— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) April 23, 2026
Like Luna, we’re, of course, just asking questions, and await phrase and potential next steps, if any, from the Ethics Committee as they appear into the claims. For what it is price, Gallego met with them on the Friday after Luna referenced the referral of the matter to Thune in a CBS News interview.
As always, keep tuned.
For a complete timeline of Gallego’s and Swalwell’s friendship over the years, click on right here.
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