A watchdog group has accused Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was arraigned at a Long Island federal courthouse on fraud charges this afternoon, of fabricating his campaign treasurer’s identity.
I wonder how long McCarthy will be able to hold back the repercussions from the drip drip drip of Santos’ effluent.
A reminder
He doesn’t have a firewall (20 or more seats). If he had that, he’d bid Santos adieu.
Methinks Ms. Marks may well be “Individual-1”.
Santos represents a new twist on the Peter Principle: an amoral, petty grifter accustomed to successfully evading accountability has risen to his level of incompetence; bluff only takes you so far at this level.
Bye, bye, baby bye bye.
The new republican party.
Wow!
Why are Repubs trying to distance themselves from Santos and not Trump?
Other then Santos not being a star and grabbing women by whatever, what is the difference?
They both pretended to be successful businessmen, but Trump did on TV.
there is reason to believe that Andrew Olson, Santos’s current treasurer, does not exist.
Jesus H, no comment can suffice
Just one more fraud in a growing list of fraudulent acts perpetrated by Santos. He needs to resign or be expelled from the House, NOW.
A parasite to the United States Justice System:
Able to use and abuse and confuse…but not in any way improve
“Given his struggles with the truth, much about Rep. Santos remains a mystery, but there’s no bigger mystery than his treasurer,” CREW President Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. “No one can seem to find Andrew Olson."
Where’s Andrew?
Wait…found him.
You’d think the FEC would be all over Santos’ scampaign. Unfortunately, the FEC doesn’t do a GD thing. Indeed, FEC may as well stand for Find Everything Copacetic.
Trump stole their base and branded it as his own. Santos is a pretender who has no pull with the base. He does, however, have a vote in the House, helping McCarthy hold onto his razor-thin majority, so House leadership is more likely to tolerate him than the Party at large.
Completely OT but fun.
If they did, Rubio n DeSantis would be ex pols.
Seriously. That has to be a new one. “Instead of forging donations and records, we will forge a person!”
They’re not trying to distance themselves from Santos except rhetorically. No R’s will take any action in the House to actually expel him. This is all for show. They need his vote in the House.
The main difference between Santos and Trump is that Santos doesn’t command a hardcore base of MAGA voters like Trump does, who will support a primary attack on any politician who crosses him. They’re scared of Trump. They’re not scared of Santos. They just need his vote.
Andrew “Mr. Snuffelupagus” Olson