Ruben Gallego (cropped, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Arizona senator Ruben Gallego, now an aspiring 2028 presidential candidate, is in the news thanks to his bromance with the disgraced former California congressman Eric Swalwell, who is facing mounting allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, not to mention the emergence of a video that shows him rolling around on a bed in Las Vegas with an escort. Gallego was Swalwell’s Capitol Hill roommate and longtime wingman, so some people are reasonably starting to wonder what Gallego knew, when he knew it, and whether he got in on the action. Gallego attempted to answer those questions on Tuesday, telling reporters, “This man led a double life. I was manipulated, I was lied to.” Given that everybody in D.C. seems to have known about Swalwell’s extracurricular interests, Gallego is either the stupidest man in Washington or, perhaps, not on the up-and-up. The legacy media is now interested in the story and, it turns out, there may have been some signs Gallego isn’t a stand up guy. 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. READ MORE: On Ruben Gallego, We Told You So FLASHBACK: ‘Likely To Give Birth Any Day’: Ruben Gallego Served Pregnant Wife With Divorce Papers. She Was Blindsided.