Hey remember back in 2021, when you were still forced to mask up, follow arrows in grocery stores and wear your mask into restaurant until you sat down? Yea… 2021 was a helluva year.. That’s when BFFs Eric Swalwell and Ruben Gallego popped off to Qatari to ride on camels in the desert, shirtless, with no masks or anything else….The trip, paid for by the U.S.-Qatar Business Council, involved four House Democrats and one Republican (RINO Lisa McClain of Michigan) who went to Qatar in 2021
Ruben Gallego, the Arizona senator who will live in infamy for, among other things, posing shirtless with Eric Swalwell while riding a camel in the Qatari desert, is taking heat for his response to Swalwell’s sexual misconduct scandal.
Gallego, who endorsed Swalwell’s… pic.twitter.com/zwlSkdbtVK
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 14, 2026
Swalwell is now out of the governor's race, but his friends are still looking for political shelter. This photo of Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) has not aged well. Notably, Gallego and Swalwell accepted roughly 100k to frolic at the Four Seasons in Doha. https://t.co/r1mvhw1nWY pic.twitter.com/ne83LlB7cz
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 13, 2026