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Gallego Dismisses ‘Gossip’ After Report on Sexual Relations With Staffers 61%
By Joshua Rhett Miller62%
7/16/2026, 8:51:23 PM
Topics: Politics, U S Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 26.7% saturation with 108 hits. Analysis detected 673 faulty-reasoning hits from 404 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.8% and a BS Rank of 61% (8,346 of 21,175 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 60.60% of the article peer group.
Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego is allegedly engaged in sexual relationships with two House staffers, according to a report from the New York Post.
One source claimed that the Democratic senator and potential 2028 presidential candidate admitted to prior relationships with aides of Texas Democrats; a second individual said they recently learned of the alleged trysts, the Post reported.
The romantic encounters reportedly occurred during Gallego's decade representing Phoenix in the House of Representatives from 2015 through 2025.
A third source confirmed one of the encounters, according to the outlet.
Both relationships occurred while Gallego, who is known as "very flirtatious," was unmarried, the sources said.
Gallego, a 46-year-old married father of three, refused to address the accusations on Thursday, telling an NBC reporter, "I'm not going to engage in gossip."
The lawmaker then declined to deny the report when asked if it was accurate.
A spokesperson for Gallego did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.
The alleged relationships fit a broader "pattern of mistakes and missteps and judgment calls" by Gallego, one source told the Post.
One of the staffers had been in her 20s and much younger than Gallego at the time, according to the Post.
"What else could there be out there?"
the anonymous source told the outlet.
Gallego's personal life has attracted increased scrutiny following the April resignation of California Representative Eric Swalwell amid sexual assault allegations.
Gallego has denied being the second man in a video posted to social media allegedly showing Swalwell in bed with a woman.
At the time, Gallego rejected what he characterized as false claims circulating online.
"This is an example of the lies," he told reporters in April.
"No, I was not sitting next to him, I was not in the room, I was nowhere, I don't even know where it happened."
The Senate Ethics Committee last month dismissed a complaint filed against Gallego by Florida Representative Anna Paulina Lina, who accused the Democrat of campaign finance and sexual misconduct violations, the Post reported.
Luna also posted on X in late April that she "heard of 4 women who have had multiple and uncomfortable/inappropriate advances/comments/touching, etc." involving Gallego.
"This is not made up and the Senate is being awfully quiet about it," Luna wrote.
Newsweek reached out to Luna's office for comment.
Contact Newsweek editors on this story: Jason Lemon and Sam Wilson.
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