Washington — Troubled Rep. George Santos said he hopes to be removed from Congress before very long and will “wear it like a respectable symbol.”
“I realize I will get ousted when this ejection goal goes to the floor,” the New York conservative expressed Friday on a X Space facilitated by moderate media character Monica Matthews.
“I have crunched the numbers again and again,” he said, snickering, “and it doesn’t look great.”
The Morals Panel delivered a 56-page report recently that said there was “significant proof” that Santos disregarded government regulation. The report claimed Santos channeled huge amounts of cash through his mission and organizations to pay for his own costs, remembering for corrective systems like Botox, at extravagance stores Hermès and Ferragamo, on more modest buys at OnlyFans, a site containing grown-up happy, dinners, stopping, travel and lease.
After the report’s delivery, Rep. Michael Visitor, the director of the Morals Panel, acquainted a goal with oust Santos. Visitor, a Mississippi conservative, said the discoveries were “above and beyond to warrant discipline and the most proper discipline is removal.”
Calling his partner an indecency, Santos tried Visitor to present his goal as “advantaged,” meaning the House would be expected to think about the action inside two authoritative days.
“He believed that he planned to menace me out of Congress,” Santos said, adding that he wouldn’t leave and referring to the report as “a political resistance hit piece, best case scenario.”
“I need to see them set this trend,” he said. “Since this point of reference sets another period of fair treatment, and that implies you are liable until demonstrated honest, we will take your allegations and use it to spread, to ravage, to annihilate you and eliminate you from society. That is how they are doing this.”
Santos declined to address the particular charges in the report, guaranteeing they were “libelous.” He said shielding himself against the claims could be utilized against him in the government case. Santos has argued not liable to 23 government charges.
Santos additionally attacked his partners, blaming them for infidelity, casting a ballot hungover and distributing their democratic cards like “candy for another person to decide in favor of them.”
“There’s criminals in abundance,” he said. “There’s kin with a wide range of sheisty foundations. And out of nowhere, George Santos is the Mary Magdalene of US Congress.”
During the hourslong conversation, Rep. Robert Garcia, a leftist from California, signed onto the X Space and squeezed Santos on why he wouldn’t leave.
“Why not simply make the best choice and leave?” Garcia said. “We will cast a ballot to oust you, George.”
Santos said he hasn’t been seen as at legitimate fault for anything.
“George, we will oust you,” Garcia rehashed.
“What’s more, that is fine,” Santos said. “You’re saying it like I’m terrified of it, Robert. I’m not frightened of it. … I leave, I concede all that is in that report, which a large portion of it is probably the most insane s — t I’ve at any point perused in my life.”
