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Indicted Republican lawmaker George Santos expelled from US House
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- Title
- US lawmaker George Santos, indicted on fraud charges, faces House expulsion vote
- Authors
- Makini Brice
- Published
- Dec 1 2023
- Word count
- 753 words
One would think such an historic event would deserve a better quote, but this seedy bastard shouldn't get any more of our attention. Off to jail, George!
Not answering questions was the only way he could prevent lying.
It really strikes me as a "I didn't want to be here anyway, I'm taking my ball and going home." sort of vibe.
It's so bizarre how it got this far.
His is a story I've been following because of how bizarre and ridiculous it is, and his inability to ever come clean about anything. There's an amazing clip on a talk show where he and one of his former election opponents are answering questions about themselves as candidates. The question is a simple one - what's your family's biggest holiday - and the opponent answers "new years" with a story about watching silly movies and eating Haagen-dazs ice cream. The host turns to Santos for his answer, and Santos just delivers the same thing, with the same detail about the ice cream. Even with a throwaway question like that, the dude comes off like he's just blatantly lying.
There's another one, where a newscaster asks him a pretty direct question about having bought content from OnlyFans. Santos tries to deliver a pretty typical "Oh until a few weeks ago I didn't even know what that is! Haha!" and the newscaster, without skipping a beat, goes "...just can't tell the truth" and his expression immediately hardens. It's like a cartoon, so on-the-nose you wouldn't believe it if you didn't just see it.
Looking forward to a full accounting of him because no doubt that story is going to be ridiculous.
Can you find links to either of those videos? I want to see for myself but I’m not sure what to search for.
Looks like the only fans one is part of this interview (around the 4 min mark). The best part is he responded to the tweet saying they forgot to mention his Oscar and gramy haha.
They were part of this video I saw recently. It's a good recap of the whole story on top of featuring those clips.
When you grift and lie so much even congressional republicans are offended.
Here's a list of his biggest lies which are really crazy.
Adam Serwer at The Atlantic had a sad about Santos's expulsion from the House without a formal conviction. But when you have direct testimony from a fellow House member about acts of fraud, it's hard to wait, I guess. Theory is that the Republicans wouldn't have voted to oust Santos if he had a hope of re-election, since their House majority margin is so thin.
Edit: Better link to Rep. Miller's story.
There is something to be said for "conduct unbecoming of a congressman".
Both of these derive from the fact that they represent and are responsible for a body of people, whereas an individual can, by definition, only represent and be responsible for themselves. We expect representatives to withhold from engaging in graft and corruption - expecting them to be particularly upstanding citizens seems to follow from the same reasoning.
Yeah... in a political environment this polarized, in a political party that has been shown to tolerate a lot of misconduct and unethical conduct for the sake of expediency and retaining power; if the modern Republican Party is willing to cut you loose without much of a fight, then you're just done. Any further investigation or formal litigation would just forestall the inevitable.
Thanks for the quality follow-up to this story. We can enter the refractory philosophical phase of the story now.
And as a character actor, my next career goal is to play Santos in the eventual biopic. I mean—what a role!
A good start!
Can't wait for a Bob Menendez treason trial for all his business arrangements benefitting his Egyptian friends.
He'll still be making headlines for a minute here with his criminal trials. Don't worry!