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    Divorcing Ruben Gallego isn't what Kari Lake imagined

    Kathleen William Posted on

    All year long, Kari Lake has been looking at Ruben Gallego's divorce files and wondering, “What is he hiding?” Now we have the answer.

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    All year long, Kari Lake has been hinting that Ruben Gallego is using the courts to cover up something dark and disgusting in his divorce from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.

    “What is Ruben Gallego hiding?” Lake asked in February.

    And in March, in April and until Wednesday, when the Arizona Supreme Court declined to keep the Gallegos' divorce records secret.

    In campaign ads and interviews, Lake has warned Arizona voters that Gallego is “hiding.” something BAD in these records.”

    “He is desperately trying to bury his divorce documents, which many people believe reveal VERY disturbing insights into his character,” Lake said in August. “What is Ruben hiding?”

    Not much, as it turns out.

    Ruben submitted the application shortly before Kate was born

    On Thursday, Gallego's divorce files were unsealed – the result of the conservative Washington Free Beacon's 10-month-old lawsuit to open the files and reveal what Lake has been teasing all year.

    The records tell us pretty much what we already knew.

    Gallego filed for divorce just weeks before his wife gave birth to their son, saying their marriage was “irretrievably broken” – the standard formula often used in Arizona divorce cases.

    Gallego filed a motion to seal the record, pointing out that then-Phoenix Vice Mayor Kate Gallego had not yet been served with divorce papers and was “probably due to give birth any day.”

    Okay, that's not a flattering picture of Ruben Gallego. Aside from the reason he asked for his file to be kept secret from the public, it's nothing we didn't already know.

    The Gallegos announced their impending divorce in December 2016, the same month it was filed.

    The information in divorce is nothing new

    The Free Beacon said Thursday that Kate Gallego was “blindsided,” pointing to a February 2017 filing that said she “did not have sufficient information to form a belief” about her husband's claim that the Marriage cannot be restored.

    If she was surprised, that's nothing new either.

    “It's painful when a marriage ends and it's something I never wanted or expected,” Kate Gallego wrote when she announced her split on Facebook in December 2016.

    Opinion: Bad news for Lake. She lost the lawyers

    Ruben Gallego has long linked the divorce to his post-traumatic stress disorder, which was the result of intense combat during his deployment in the Iraq War in 2005.

    Lake, meanwhile, has done her best all year to portray the Marine veteran as something of a monster – whose sinister details would come to light once Gallego's divorce certificate was unsealed.

    “The people of Arizona deserve to know what kind of man he is before they cast their vote,” she said Wednesday. “He’s hiding something bad.”

    Lake thought Gallego was a monster. He wasn't

    The following is not included in the divorce petition.

    No allegations of domestic violence. No claims of secret affairs.

    No haggling over property division before the divorce was finalized in April 2017.

    In fact, in the seven years since their divorce, the Gallegos have remained amicable and co-parented their son. Each supported the other's campaign.

    In his June ruling that the files should be unsealed, Yavapai County Judge John Napper called the divorce case “one of the most diverse divorce files I have ever seen.”

    The couple says they tried to keep the recordings secret to protect their son.

    As for Lake, who apparently thought that the deep, dark secrets revealed in Gallego's divorce filing would be her ticket to the Senate – she has suddenly fallen silent.

    Oh, she's still busy reposting the manufactured excitement of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and others and rehashing what we already knew.

    What acknowledgment the answer to all the questions about the deep, dark secrets he was supposedly hiding?

    Maybe she's working on an apology post?

    Reach Roberts at [email protected]. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @LaurieRobertsaz and on threads at @LaurieRobertsaz.

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