With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine
SANTOS’ SWAN SONG — The end of Rep. GEORGE SANTOS’ political career is right around the corner — and last night, for the first time, the New York Republican seemed to acknowledge it.
In a three-hour rant on X Spaces, Santos lashed out at lawmakers on the House Ethics Committee and admitted that he would probably be expelled from the House after the Thanksgiving recess. Why? Because “I can do math” and count votes, he said, per Reese Gorman at the Washington Examiner.
Santos is probably right. After the ethics panel found in mid-November that he’d used campaign money for personal expenses like Botox, spending splurges in the Hamptons and Atlantic City and even on OnlyFans, a website known for selling porn, several Republicans who opposed previous efforts to oust him have come around. And Ethics Chair MICHAEL GUEST (R-Miss.) has now introduced another resolution to expel Santos based on the findings of his probe — though he has yet to begin the process of forcing a vote on the matter.
But that doesn’t mean Santos is going to go quietly. In fact, we should all probably think of last night as a prelude to how Congress’ own FRANK ABAGNALE JR. will spend his final weeks in the spotlight. His X Spaces performance included accusing lawmakers of voting while drunk (we can confirm this does often happen …) and daring Guest to file his expulsion resolution and “be a man and stop being a pussy.”
Here’s a taste: “Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of sheisty backgrounds … I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyists that they’re going to screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on and…
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