The Liberty Daily 
(The Daily Signal)—Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., a good friend of former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who was forced to resign from the chamber due to sexual assault and rape allegations, is now under a House Ethics investigation himself over alleged sexual misconduct.
The committee launched a probe into the Democrats’ Deputy Whip regarding allegations of sexual misconduct on Monday.
Gomez, founder of the Congressional Dads Caucus, admitted on Monday that he made “personal mistakes outside” his marriage, but that the acts were “consensual in nature.”
“Although my actions were consensual in nature and haven’t violated the law or House Ethics rules,” Gomez added, “that doesn’t diminish the impact that these mistakes have made on those I care about the most.”
However, the attorneys for one of his accusers posted a statement on Wednesday contradicting Gomez’s claim.
“Contrary to Representative Gomez’s assertion in his statement, his actions were not ‘consensual in nature’ with respect to our client,” the attorneys Lisa Banks and Sarah Nesbitt said in a statement posted on X on Wednesday.
The woman also spoke with the Ethics Committee “about her experience of sexual harassment and assault by Representative Jimmy Gomez,” the statement added.
Additional allegations, if proven true, could further raise questions about Gomez’s past conduct.
Gomez, who consistently referred to President Donald Trump as a pedophile and even released a statement claiming that Trump’s name does not belong next to a child’s bank account in response to the president’s announcement of the “Trump Accounts,” has also been linked to a 2023 incident in which he allegedly kissed a Democratic staffer two decades younger than him.
According to the New York Post, the incident involved the now 51-year-old congressman allegedly “making out, French kissing a Democratic staffer outside a backyard party hosted by Swalwell to celebrate the start of the August congressional recess.”
The aide, as noted by the Post, “was sitting on the hood of the car and they were going at it,” according to a source who was smoking a cigarette in front of Swalwell’s home about a mile from the Capitol.
“They were down the street a little bit. But it wasn’t that discreet,” the source continued.
A second source, who was waiting for an Uber, recalled that “someone pointed it out and it took me a second to recognize who it was.”
A spokesperson for Gomez, however, told the outlet the accounts were “not true” and the interaction between him and the young female staffer “didn’t happen.”
