We've Got a Good, Old Fashioned Congressional Sex Scandal on Our Hands as Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema is Accused in a Lawsuit of Having an Affair With Her Bodyguard and Telling Him to Buy Her Molly

Jerry Thornton1/15/2026 10:15 PM

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Let's have a little open and frank discussion, shall we? Like adults? There's not much happening right now capable of uniting these United States. We're a divided nation and there's not a reciprocal we can multiply by to get us back to 1. Health care? Please. Geopolitics? As if. Making it so people my kids' age can afford a home? Don't be naive. The only thing we could get everybody in Washington to vote the same way on is releasing the Epstein Files, and ever since then it's been WrestleMania, with everyone fighting over what the files actually say. The chances of anything bringing America together are next to zero.

But … next to zero is not zero. There might be hope for us yet. Because if there's one thing people across the ideological spectrum enjoy, it's a good political sex scandal. And since the aforementioned one seems to be going nowhere, maybe this one will do the trick.

Let me reintroduce you to former US Senator from the great state of Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema:

And the legal matter she finds herself in:

The Assembly NC - A new lawsuit filed in a federal court in North Carolina accuses Kyrsten Sinema, the former U.S. senator from Arizona, of pursuing a romantic relationship with a member of her security team, leading him to dissolve his marriage.
Among other things, the lawsuit claims Sinema wooed Moore County resident Matthew Ammel by purchasing him a Theragun personal massager, drinking Dom Perignon with him in Cindy McCain’s suite at a U2 concert, suggesting he score MDMA so she could “guide him through a psychedelic experience,” and taking him to a Taylor Swift concert. …
The plaintiff, Heather Ammel, is seeking damages from Sinema for alienation of affection. Under this controversial North Carolina law, a person can be held financially liable for “wrongful and malicious conduct”—i.e., initiating an affair. …
According to Heather Ammel’s complaint, her husband is an Army veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress after deployments to the Middle East. They married in 2010, and she was a stay-at-home mom. In 2022, he got a job as part of Sinema’s security detail.
A year later, the head of that detail quit, warning Matthew Ammel on her way out that “she had concerns [Sinema] was having sexual relations with other security members,” the complaint alleges.
One of the Senate’s few openly LGBTQ members—Sinema is bisexual—she embraced an eccentric reputation, once wearing a purple wig on the Senate floor.

However, while Sinema was narrowly elected in 2018 as a Democrat and was thought to be progressive—having been a former member of the Green Party—she soon became a thorn in the side of Senate Democrats, backing Republicans’ ability to filibuster voting rights legislation and other key priorities.
After the 2022 midterms, Sinema left the Democratic Party and became an independent. Sinema did not seek reelection in 2024.
Matthew Ammel began accompanying Sinema on work trips in 2023, according to the complaint. They went to Napa Valley, then to a U2 concert at The Sphere in Las Vegas. They began chatting frequently on the encrypted messaging app Signal. Sinema sent him pictures of herself wrapped in a towel, the lawsuit says. The senator volunteered to help him work through his mental health issues and suggested he pick up MDMA to aid in a “psychedelic experience.” (The lawsuit does not specify whether he did so.)
According to the lawsuit, Sinema messaged Matthew Ammel during the 2024 State of the Union address, which she said she wasn’t attending because “she didn’t need to listen to some old man, President Biden, talk about legislation that she wrote.” When Matthew Ammel, who was attending a baseball game in Pittsburgh, messaged Sinema that he was going to start a “fuck the troops” chant, Sinema responded that she would “fuck the hot ones.”

And from another paragraph of the lawsuit that didn't make this report for some inexplicable reason:

Now I'll interject here so our legal team can breathe a sigh of relief in their cold little hearts:

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… and add all the disclaimer words. Allegedly. Accused of. Not proven. No evidence presented. Day in court. Due process. All that stuff to keep us from getting sued by Sinema the way she is by Heather Ammel. Especially since this is just a civil case. The legal bar to hurdle in order to bring a lawsuit against someone is infinitesimal compared to the one needed to charge someone with an actual crime. Pretty much anybody can file a suit against anyone; it doesn't mean it's going anywhere.

Now with that business out of the way, let me ask you. Who better to unite America than Kyrsten Sinema? Sure, talking about getting "Fuck the troops" chant going, even if it was a joke told by an actual veteran, will cost her some support. But you have to give her tons of credit for her reply. "I'll fuck the hot ones?"

Besides, who can claim broader appeal than she can? Everyone in DC loves talking a good game about working across the aisle for the betterment of the country. Well she's not only done that - been a Democrat, a Green Party candidate, and voted with Republicans - she has sex with both genders, too. She's the ultimate uniter.

Granted, in some parts of the country she'll have to explain her opposition to the missionary position. I'm sure calling it "Boring!" is going to cost her some votes in the Bible Belt states, and she'll have to clarify her (pardon the pun) position on such a hot button issue. But anyone who can appeal to such a broad range of demographic groups as Molly users, former military, and the purple hair crowd, is someone who can find support across all voting blocs.

I'm sorry if (allegedly) the Ammel's marriage couldn't withstand her blend of psychedelic drugs, live music, massage therapy and (allegedly) violating ethics by having (alleged) sex with members of her security staff. But nevertheless, I say "Kyrsten Sinema for President: 2028."