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shunned opening day, tho not denounced by kevin/leadership

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AN 10 26

A Texas Republican Party leader is threatening to sue comedian Sacha Baron Cohen after he discovered he fell for a humiliating prank in what he thought was an immigration documentary.

Michael Aboud, chairman of the El Paso County Republican Party, appears in Baron Cohen's new movie, Ali G: Who Iz I?, alongside supporters of President Donald Trump, according to a Thursday report by The Guardian.

The footage shows Aboud taking part in a bizarre training exercise led by Baron Cohen’s character Col. Erran Morad, who is a fictional former Israeli intelligence operative who previously appeared in Cohen’s 2018 show Who is America?

The Texas Republican and other MAGA folk are taught supposed self-defense techniques, including wearing a protective plastic buttock. He also teaches them how to fire bullets from the middle of these buttocks by stroking a rubber penis.

In a hilarious twist, Aboud and other gullible participants are recruited for what they are told is a mission to prevent a South American drug kingpin's child from being born in the United States.

The supposed mission involves kidnapping a heavily pregnant woman, who is played by actress Morgana Robinson, and taking her to an abandoned medical facility.

After a staged birth with a prosthetic baby, the participants are seen driving the infant toward Mexico. In another scene, Aboud chooses to drop the supposed baby from a drone rather than allow it to come to America

Despite the ridiculous task asked of him, Aboud said he had no idea he had been duped when asked by the publication.

He said he was fooled into believing the prank was a documentary about illegal crossings at the southern border.

Aboud blasted Cohen and his team and said he plans to sue them for the deception.

“No one should spend one penny watching anything he produces or appears in," he said. "I plan to sue him.”

The film states that the participants were not aware they were involved in a prank.

However, Joshua Loudermilk, a MAGA fan seen participating with Aboud, gushed a bout his participation in the movie on social media.

“I got to spend 12 hours one on one with Sasha [sic] and he taught me soooo much about the fun of making others laugh” as well as a link to a video promo for the film, saying, “I am in the trailer.” On 10 January, he also posted a headshot of himself, saying: “Howdy. Done with Sasha Cohen movie and ready for more.”

However, producers on the film state that he also did not know he was pranked.

The movie also features former Republican Rep. George Santos. In 2020, Rudy Giuliani was pranked by Cohen in his “Who Is America?" Series.

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The New Republic’s Jim Geraghty thinks MAGA has gone completely off the deep end with its latest conspiracy theory: that Charlie Kirk is not really dead, placing him alongside figures like Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur in the pantheon of “still alive” myths.

Writing Monday, Geraghty said the conspiracy is coming from people known for insisting they are “just asking questions,” and added, “I wish I were making that up, but I am not.”

The Manhattan Institute released a report dividing the Republican Party into two groups, a small, "but still sizable faction" with policy beliefs that aren't all that conservative. In fact, they're actually progressive on multiple issues. The report revealed that a "significant" amount of those now believe that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Towers were an "inside job," the moon landing was fake, and stories of the Holocaust are "exaggerated" or never happened.

Far-right commentator Tim Pool welcomed "controversy-courting gadfly" Milo Yiannopoulos on the show where he questioned if Kirk's assassination was real.

“The astronomically inadequate explanations given, in my view, for the actions before, at, and after Charlie’s death and the behavior afterwards from both the federal government and Turning Point executives — you think nothing of his deeply, deeply sinister wife?" he continued.

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, was also on the show, and pressed Yiannopoulos on how Kirk's wife was "sinister."

"Have you seen the difference in the size of her hands with Charlie’s in their wedding pictures, and then compared it to him in his casket?" Yiannopoulos asked.

"Are you saying she’s a man?" Santos questioned.

"No, no. I'm saying that wasn't Charlie in there," Yiannopoulos claimed.

He went on to ask whether Kirk's body was somehow "lost" or "vanishingly slight."

Geraghty compared it to the conspiracy theories that question whether former President John F. Kennedy actually survived the Dallas shooting in 1963.

The columnist also cited a glowing *Wall Street Journal*profile on Pool from July in which they painted the podcaster, his guests "and those like him, represent the new wave of right-of-center voices. They’re the wise minds and leaders on the rise, shaping the discourse and guiding the national conversation."

Geraghty explained, "Poll results like that suggest that Trump has succeeded in attracting two sizable and significant groups to his political coalition: disaffected Democrats who rarely agree with the Republican Party on policy but like Trump’s personal style, and lunatics who doubt that the Holocaust or moon landing happened or that al-Qaeda is responsible for the 9/11 attacks."

Read the full column here.

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Former Rep. George Santos(R-N.Y.) said that the prison system is “creating monsters” after he was released from prison last week.

“We are creating an environment of failure, so people are prone to make poor choices to survive, and then they’re thrown in prison and treated inhumanely,” Santos said Monday on [Meghan McCain’s](https://thehill.com/people/meghan-mccain/show “Citizen McCain.”

“They don’t have a voice like I did. They don’t have the support system I had. So, that’s why I want to be that support system,” he added. “I think we need to revisit how we do jail in this country, how we do prison. If we’re not going to put them in prison to reform them and reintegrate them back into the communities, we are creating monsters.”

Santos was let out of prison Friday after President Trumpannounced he commuted the ex-House member’s sentence. Santos reported to prison over the summer to start his 87-month term.

“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week.

“Good luck George, have a great life!” the president added after revealing Santos was to be released from prison “IMMEDIATELY.”

Santos initially faced a seven-year prison sentence in the wake of pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was expelled from Congress in late 2023 when it was revealed that he made up parts of his resume as well as campaign finance reports.

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“Well, darlings … The curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the rhinestones are packed. From the halls of Congress to the chaos of cable news what a ride it’s been!” Santos said in a post on social media before reporting to prison.

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George Santos - Wikipedia

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Guilty plea

On August 19, 2024, Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal in which he also admitted to committing the other crimes with which he was charged in the superseding indictment. "I accept full responsibility for my actions", he told the judge. "I allowed my ambition to cloud my judgment, leading me to make decisions that were unethical and... guilty."[178][179][180]

Santos was initially scheduled for sentencing on February 7, 2025. Federal sentencing guidelines call for 6–8 years for the charges he pleaded to,[178] with a possible maximum of 22 years.[181] He will also be required to pay nearly $375,000 in restitution to victims and forfeit an additional $205,000; if he cannot pay the latter amount, his property may be seized.[178] A month before the sentencing, he asked for it to be postponed six months so he can make enough money from his podcast to pay the restitution.[182] The judge set a new sentencing date of April 25, 10 weeks later.[183]

According to Breon Peace, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, the plea agreement was secured when Santos agreed to serve at least the two-year minimum required under law for the identity theft charges. While Santos agreed to plead to only two of the 23 counts in the indictment, his admission to the other charges means they can be considered in his sentencing. Peace said Santos also agreed not to appeal any sentence of less than eight years.[181]

Sentence

Both the government and Santos's lawyers filed sentencing memoranda with the court in April 2025. Prosecutors asked for a sentence of more than seven years, slightly higher than what the Federal Sentencing Guidelines prescribe for his offenses, pointing to the extent of Santos's deception. "He has made a mockery of our election system", they wrote. They also pointed to his Cameo appearances and podcast as evidence Santos was continuing to leverage his crimes for personal gain. His lawyers attributed most of his actions to "a misguided desperation related to his political campaign, rather than inherent malice" and asked for the minimum sentence of two years. One defense attorney called the prosecution's request "draconian". "Long story short," Santos wrote on X, "I will NOT succumb to their soul crushing antics and that makes them furious."[184]

In a later X post, Santos said the DOJ was ignoring the more serious crimes of "the cabal of pedophiles running around in every power structure in the world including the US Government." Two weeks later, prosecutors filed another memo, saying that "this message—which signals defiance and victimhood ... is hardly an expression of 'genuine remorse.'" Santos, they said, was "belligeren[t] ... blaming his situation on everyone except himself."[185]

In response Santos called the DOJ "weaponized" and that its "nonsense memos" were in violation of a court order.[185] He claimed his arguments for a shorter sentence were protected speech under the First Amendment, and that therefore the government should not punish him for them: "My posts may be colorful but they don't justify a sentence triple the norm, and the government should be ashamed of itself for even seeking such a high sentence".[186]

Prosecutors also noted that Santos had yet to pay any of his court-ordered restitution.[186] Days before sentencing, Santos said he was trying to make "some kind of a meaningful attempt" at it. He maintained that he was "genuinely remorseful", and would not ask for a federal pardon from Trump as he did not expect that request to be granted. Due to fears for his safety, he wanted to serve his time in protective custody.[187]

Santos was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison on April 25.[188][189][190] He was ordered to surrender by July 25.[191][192] At the hearing he cried and asked "let me prove that I can still contribute positively to the community I wronged." Judge Seybert was unmoved. "Where is the remorse?" she asked. "Where do I see it?"[147]

Shortly afterwards, his attorney, Joseph Murray, said he was researching how to file an application for executive clemency. Murray added that he believed Santos had been prosecuted primarily because he was a gay Republican who had won a district Biden carried in the 2020 presidential election.[193] Two weeks after being sentenced, Santos told Piers Morgan he was hoping for some sort of relief from Trump.[194] Santos stated that he had given up on seeking a federal pardon in May 2025.[195]

Santos reported as ordered to the Federal Correctional Institution, Fairton, in New Jersey on July 25, 2025.[196]

Post-congressional career

Within three days of his expulsion from Congress, Santos started offering personalized videos on the website Cameo. Steven Galanis, one of the co-founders of the website, said that Santos's videos represented one of "the best launches that [the website] ever had". It was noted that the videos could potentially earn him well over "the $174,000 salary he earned as a member of Congress".[197] Senator John Fetterman spent $343 for a Cameo video from George Santos, as a prank against his colleague, Bob Menendez.[198]

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel paid for videos to see if "there's a line [that Santos] wouldn't cross". Kimmel aired some of the videos on his show, after which Santos demanded $20,000 for the right to broadcast, which Kimmel refused to pay.[199] In response, Santos filed suit in February 2024 against Kimmel, ABC (Kimmel's employer), and the Walt Disney Company (ABC's owner) for $750,000, claiming that Kimmel intended to "ridicule" Santos.[200] Six months later, a judge dismissed the suit, saying that Kimmel's actions constituted "political commentary and criticism," which is protected under the fair use doctrine.[201][202] The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal in September 2025.[203]

Santos announced in April 2024 that he would revive his Kitara drag persona for Cameo videos, promising to donate 20 percent of the proceeds to charity.[204] The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, one of the charities to which Santos claimed proceeds from the Cameos would be donated, said he had not informed them of his plans prior to making his announcement.[205] Two months later, Santos announced that he had started an OnlyFans account,[206] but the account would not feature any sexual content and would rather be a behind-the-scenes look at his life and work.[207]

In December, Santos launched a podcast, Pants on Fire, with liberal cohost Naja Hall and him discussing various issues. The weekend before the first episode, a video was uploaded showing someone throwing coffee on Santos as he walked through Times Square. Santos later admitted the incident was staged to promote the podcast and that he had not intended for it to be uploaded.[208]

Prison

After Santos had served a month, it was reported that he had written a letter complaining about prison conditions to the South Shore Press, a Long Island news outlet. He specifically cited mold and an air conditioning problem that took a long time to repair, and said prison officials had not taken those complaints seriously.[209] He later complained after prison authorities put him in special housing, which he characterized as solitary confinement, due to what they told him was a threat to his life.[210]

Commutation

On October 17, 2025, President Donald Trump commuted Santos' sentence, resulting in his immediate release from federal prison.[211] Trump announced the commutation on Truth Social, claiming that although Santos was a '"rogue"', he had been "horribly mistreated" in prison and that a seven-year sentence was excessive. Trump's statement also cited Santos' political beliefs as a reason for the commutation, writing: "At least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!"[212]

Some of Santos's former colleagues among the New York Republican House delegation who had supported his expulsion decried the move. "George Santos is a convicted con artist", said Nicole Malliotakis. "I disagree with the commutation". LaLota said "he should devote the rest of his life to demonstrating remorse and making restitution to those he wronged." Richard Osthoff, the naval veteran who drew widespread sympathy over the death of his dog when it was reported that Santos had failed to provide funds raised for surgery, said "I feel like I got personally stabbed in the gut by the president of the United States".[213]

Personal life

Santos is openly gay.[214][215] He was married to a woman from 2012 to 2019,[216] despite previously being out, but lived with men he was involved with from 2013 on.[214] Santos did not widely acknowledge his marriage to the woman, a Brazilian national,[217] until it was reported in December 2022.[218] In statements acknowledging the marriage, Santos said that he loved his then-wife; however, he also said that he had been comfortably and openly gay for at least the preceding decade, an assertion broadly supported by friends, former coworkers, and roommates.[60][217][219] Ex-roommate Morey-Parker said that in 2014 the pair were on friendly terms and that they went to social events together. Santos did not deny the marriage, but Santos was also open about his romance with his then-boyfriend and told friends about it.[220]

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On Newsmax, Matt Schlapp: “I'm not saying George Santos is a Santos, is a saint. But what I'm saying is that he's no more guilty than 40% of the people that are over there”

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weekend news dump this was no kings

Continuing his pattern of pardoning allies and prosecuting adversaries, President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the prison term of former Republican Congressman George Santos, who was less than three months into a seven year sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

“George Santos was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.

Once again, Trump randomly attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) admitted lie about taking part in the US invasion and occupation of Vietnam. Blumenthal was a Marine stationed stateside during the war, in which Trump—who has been derided as “Capt. Bone Spurs”—avoided serving.

“This is what a wannabe king does.”

“He never went to Vietnam, he never saw Vietnam, he never experienced the Battles there, or anywhere else,” Trump said of Blumenthal. “His War Hero status, and even minimal service in our Military, was totally and completely MADE UP.”

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“This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!” the president added. “George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated. Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Santos was subsequently released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after 10:00 pm Friday.

According to a copy of the commutation posted on social media, Santos will also no longer have to pay $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to victims of his fraud. Trump’s action does not erase Santos’ conviction.

Santos, 37, resisted pressure to resign from Congress over lies about his education, employment, family, religion, residence, net worth, and more.

As The New York Times reported Friday:

Mr. Santos claimed that he was descended from Holocaust refugees. His mother, he said, had been in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He claimed to be a college volleyball star. And Mr. Santos boasted of extensive Wall Street experience that allowed him to report loaning his campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars. None of that was true.

Between May and October 2023, Santos was indicted on 23 criminal counts including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States.

In December 2023, House lawmakers voted 311-114 to remove the freshman lawmaker from office. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was among the 112 Republicans and two Democrats who voted against expulsion. Santos became just the sixth lawmaker to ever be booted from the House.

In August 2024, Santos pleaded guilty to two felony counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The following April, he was sentenced to 87 months behind bars and ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture totaling nearly $600,000.

Trump’s commutation of Santos’ sentence follows a series of high-profile acts of clemency. Most notorious among these was his blanket pardon earlier this year of more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, for which the president—himself a 34-count convicted fraudster—was impeached for a historic second time. He was not convicted by the Senate either time.

Friday’s commutation also stands in stark contrast with the Trump administration’s recent indictments of political foes including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Critics were quick to note this pattern, which Congressman Don Beyer (D-Va.) called “naked corruption.”

“George Santos pleaded guilty to identity theft and wire fraud, a small part of his lying and stealing that really hurt people,” Beyer wrote on social media. “Trump says it plainly: Crimes don’t count if you ‘vote Republican.’ Just like his pardons of those who violently attacked police.”

West Coast Trial Lawyers president Neama Rahmani said on X following Trump’s announcement: “It’s weeks away, but Trump is handing out pardons like Halloween candy. Disgraced former Rep. George Santos is the latest beneficiary, showing once again that flattering the president gets you everywhere.”

“Sneaking it in on a Friday night means it will get less press too,” Rahmani added. “I can’t wait for Santos’ first cameo appearance post-federal prison. Is Diddy the next recipient of Trump’s clemency?”

Congressman Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) also reacted to Trump’s commutation on X, writing, “This is what a wannabe king does.”

“Join us tomorrow at a No Kings rally near you,” Pocan added, referring to the more than 2,700 pro-democracy demonstrations set to take place Saturday from coast to coast and around the world.

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PUNKED BY AI

Capitol Hill is reportedly once again under siege by sophisticated impersonation scams targeting lawmakers and their staff.

In June, an individual posing as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) reached out via Telegram to at least two members of Congress — Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) and former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the Washington Post reported Saturday. The impersonator claimed involvement in a “project” with First Lady Melania Trump and urged them to install a suspicious “Phoner App” to learn more.

“There is a Project I am working on with Melania Trump. I recommend to make you the coordinator,” the fake Crawford messaged Santos, according toThe Post.

*READ MORE:'Had dirt on Donald Trump': Jeffrey Epstein's brother says White House had motive

While Burlison ignored the request, Santos did install the app — though he says the interaction ended before any of his personal information was compromised. The exchange took place just days before Santos is set to begin a seven-year prison sentence for aggravated identity theft and other charges, per the report.

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He told The Post: “I’m dealing with my own issues with the law, and now I have to be a victim of this garbage."

Santos was expelled from Congress in December 2023 following revelations of widespread fabrications in his personal biography and numerous ethics violations. In April, he was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud.

Santos received an 87‑month prison sentence and is required to report to a federal facility by July 25.

READ MORE:There's far more to Trump and Epstein's relationship: Trump biographer

This June incident fits into an increasing pattern of scams — some employing AI — targeting government figures and their staff by impersonating them. Investigators are probing a separate June campaign that used AI-generated voice and text messages, supposedly from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Crawford’s office confirmed that others had received voice memos imitating his voice, likely produced via AI.

“Over the last few months, we have seen this happen to several high-ranking Administration officials,” Crawford toldThe Post.

He continued: “It is very easy for anyone to fall victim to these nefarious efforts. I strongly encourage all Americans to stay informed on the threat and take proactive action to protect themselves by reviewing the public service information provided by the FBI on AI-powered impersonations.”

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'I'm totally resigned': 'Unrepentant' former GOP lawmaker expects to get 7 years in jail

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Semafor is reporting that a highly mysterious right-wing group has been pushing a sexual smear campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to the report, the group is so secretive that it held Zoom calls over the summer where participants did not identify themselves and their computers' cameras were turned off to mask their true identities.

The content of the call was no mystery, however.

"The influencers’ marching orders were clear: make a series of lurid sexual jibes aimed at Harris, the least crude of which was comparing her to Haliey Welch, the 'Hawk Tuah girl' who became a viral sensation over a video of her discussing oral sex," the publication reports.

Nonetheless, Semafor did manage to identify one participant in the call: Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who actually believed that the call's organizers were going too far in pushing a smear campaign accusing Harris of using sexual favors to advance her career.

ALSO READ:'Serious predicament': Trump camp insiders fear he'll blow debate — and then the election

"At that point, a recognizable voice on the anonymous call spoke up to object: Santos, the former Long Island congressman who now faces sentencing in federal court and has remade himself as a social media figure, announced that he disapproved of the messaging and left the call," Semafor writes.

After taking part in the call, Santos posted a tweet that disparaged the call's strategy and lamented, "Please God, make it stop."

Semafor also notes that the funding behind the call remains a mystery, as "organizers told participants that the money was connected to a wealthy American, who they named — but a political operation that figure is connected to heatedly denied any connection to the influencer operation, and there’s no evidence to link them."

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Instead of blaming the GOP’s failure to compromise on immigration for special election loss, right-wing pundits pine for George Santos | Media Matters for America

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we recently shared a video of George Santos creating the prank Cameo requests sent by Jimmy Kimmel. If you want to see more of Santos' Cameos, but don't want to waste your money buying them, a TikTok channel called "Georgies Cameos" has posted dozens of them (and counting) for you to peruse. Santos has been wildly popular on Cameo, as Semafor reports that in his first 48 hours on the platform, he made more than his salary as a member of Congress—a whopping $174,000!

Vox provides more information about Santos' new gig:

Since his expulsion from Congress, Santos has found a home on Cameo, a service that allows regular people to pay more famous people, usually of the reality television or character actor variety, to record video messages for their personal use. For a small fee, you could ask Santos to tell your mom that you love her or "roast" one of your friends. Santos initially charged $75 but, after serious demand, upped his price to $400, according to Cameo (Real Housewife of New York City Ramona Singer charges $125 per video).

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'If I leave they win': Santos claims 'bullying' at off-the-rails press conference - Alternet.org

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READ MORE: Ethics Committee report on George Santos released: 'Overwhelming evidence' of misconduct

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george Santos models himself pretty directly off Trump

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following the release of the House Ethics Committee’s damning report detailing the alleged actions of U.S. Rep. George Santos, largely focused on using at least tens of thousands of dollars of campaign cash for personal purchases, the Republican Ethics chair on Friday filed a resolution to expel the freshman New York Republican congressman. It sets up what will become a test of House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team – especially House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, who strongly backed Santos from the start – and their desire and ability to put ethics over politics and power.

The stakes for Speaker Johnson are simple: his three-vote majority is already razor-thin. Speaker Kevin McCarthy made clear Santos would be allowed to stay as long as possible. Will Johnson direct his leadership team to actively whip to expel Santos, knowing his majority will slip even further?

“Santos must be held accountable to the highest standards of conduct in order to safeguard the public’s faith in this institution,” the resolution, filed Friday by Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS) reads.

To expel Rep. Santos, a two-thirds majority is needed. Assuming all House Democrats are present and vote to expel, 77 Republicans would also have to vote for the expulsion resolution, as The New York Times noted November 1 when an effort to expel Santos “failed decisively…after a group of lawmakers from Mr. Santos’s home state could not persuade nearly enough of their colleagues that his admitted lies and federal indictment were sufficient grounds to oust him.”That vote failed by a 213-179 margin.

READ MORE: GOP Congressman Melts Down on House Floor Over Republican Failures

But Thursday’s massive, and massively damning Ethics Committee report, has started to convince at least a few Republicans who voted against expelling Santos less than three weeks ago that there is now enough evidence to vote yes.

And while House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s office issued a statement calling the Ethics Committee’s report “troubling,” as Punchbowl News reports, it’s been crickets from the Speaker himself, and even less from his House GOP leadership team, including Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, and most notably, Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, who not only strongly endorsed Santos, she reportedly was “laser-focused” on getting him elected and even fundraised for her fellow New York Republican.

But other Republicans, like U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), are “undecided.”

Speaking about the allegations in the Ethics Committee’s report, Rep. Davidson told CNN Thursday, “I haven’t heard them or read them all myself. But I will say primarily this is between George Santos and the people that sent him here. And I imagine there’s probably mixed feelings in his own district.”

The Ethics Committee report painted a picture of man who redirected donor funds from campaign accounts to his personal accounts, spending lavishly on expensive dining and shopping trips to cosmetics retailer Sephora, French high-end fashion house Hermès, and Italian luxury fashion house Ferragamo. Donor cash was reportedly also used at spas and casinos, and to pay for luxury vacations, to pay his rent, to pay for Botox, to pay for parking, to pay his credit card bills, and to pay OnlyFans, a subscription and pay-per-view site that streams videos created by sex workers, musicians, artists, and physical fitness experts.

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The New York Times on Thursday detailed what it called Santos’ “post-election shopping spree,” just part of the “tens of thousands of dollars or more” he “siphoned from unknowing donors.”

“Over just a few days last November, Mr. Santos dropped $6,000 at Ferragamo, perhaps some of it on the red designer sneakers he later wore to walk the marble halls of Congress. He withdrew $800 in cash at a casino, where an aide said he liked to play roulette. He paid off his rent, and he pulled out another $1,000 in spending money at an A.T.M. near his apartment in Queens,” The Times’ Nicholas Fandos wrote. “It would have been nothing for the kind of wealthy financier Mr. Santos purported to be on the campaign trail. But that was a ruse. All of it was being illegally funded by Mr. Santos’s congressional campaign, which wired him $20,000 just after Thanksgiving without ever telling campaign donors or the Federal Election Commission."

Speaker Johnson’s spokesperson on Thursday in a statement said, “Speaker Johnson encourages all involved to consider the best interests of the institution as this matter is addressed further.”

But when the House returns after Thanksgiving, and the resolution to expel comes up for a vote, it will be one thing for the Speaker to tell members to “consider the best interests of the institution,” and another to use his power to convince his caucus to expel Santos.

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Ethics Committee report on George Santos released: 'Overwhelming evidence' of misconduct - Alternet.org

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Santos tries to censure a Democrat as some Republicans move to expel him - Alternet.org

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Flustered Santos goes from 'no comment' to 'pretty much denying' all allegations after new charges - Alternet.org

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George Santos squirmed in front of reporters today outside a Long Island federal courthouse following his release on $500,000 bond. He labeled his 13-count indictment a "witch hunt," then quickly resorted to a Hunter Biden whataboutism, hoping to shine the spotlight on anyone but himself — but his desperate pivot was met with boos.

Ignoring the boos, Santos sidetracked and rambled on about the Biden family for as long as he could until someone in the crowd asked, "What about you?"

The Republican grifter also said he would run for reelection again. "I will prove my innocence," he spouted. And coming from a serial liar, we all know what that really means. (See videos below, posted by Aaron Rupar.)

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despite all the terrible publicity he has been inundated with, Rep. George Santos (R-New York) is seeking reelection in 2024. Santos' critics have been lambasting him for telling numerous lies during his 2022 campaign, and now, the embattled congressman is facing federal criminal charges.

According to CNBC, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted Santos on 13 criminal counts that include wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements. Santos surrendered to authorities on Wednesday morning, May 10.

After news of the indictment broke, it didn't take long for Twitter to be inundated with reactions.

READ MORE: George Santos surrenders to federal authorities

Author Keith Boykin tweeted, "Donald Trump and George Santos, two indicted con artists, are now the face of the modern Republican Party."

Democratic organizer Jon Cooper remarked, "Happy George Santos Indictment Day to all who celebrate.

The group Reclaim The Records devoted an entire thread to the Santos indictment, arguing that it makes a strong case for transparency in government.

Reclaim The Records tweeted, "So here's a reminder that OPEN PUBLIC ACCESS TO MULTIPLE TYPES OF HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RECORDS played a big part in revealing and documenting some of his ...alleged... untruths."

READ MORE: Moderate Republicans 'complicit in defrauding' voters for not booting George Santos: Congressman

NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, describing the charges against Santos, remarked, "Somebody is in deep . . . trouble."

Astronaut Terri Verts viewsSantos' legal problems as symptomatic of the GOP's overall dysfunction.

Verts tweeted, "America desperately needs a legitimate Republican Party (or a center-right alternative) without a continuous parade of clowns like Santos, MTG, and Boebert driving their agenda."

Never Trumper Travis Hill, @saulgoodson, described the charges as "probably the least surprising indictment in American history.

MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, a scathing critic of the MAGA movement, sarcastically posted, "The party of law and order, folks."

CNN journalists Mark Morales, Evan Perez and Gregory Krieg note, "The freshman congressman, who was elected last year to represent a district that includes parts of Long Island and Queens, has been under investigation in multiple jurisdictions and by the House Ethics Committee. Top Democrats, joined by some New York Republicans, have been calling on Santos to resign over allegations ranging from criminal behavior on the campaign trail to petty personal dishonesty stretching back more than a decade."

CNN reports that Santos "has been accused of breaking campaign finance laws, violating federal conflict of interest laws, stealing cash meant for an Iraq War veteran’s dying dog, masterminding a credit card fraud scheme and lying about where he went to school and worked."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) said he will wait to see if he thinks Santos should be removed from Congress.

McCarthy told CNN, "I’ll look at the charges."

READ MORE: George Santos' latest FEC filing an 'indecipherable mess': report

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The political media fascination with Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who appears to have faked approximately 95% of his life, is such that it was inevitable that it would draw a "savvy" backlash piece scolding the press about their priorities. The wannabe party pooper finally emerged last week at the Washington Post in an opinion column headlined, "Real people don't care about George Santos." In it, self-assigned buzzkill David Byler argued "America doesn't seem to care" about Santos, which he can tell based on Google search traffic.

Our nation was founded by puritans, so as soon as people had a laugh over Santos, inevitably someone would shake their finger disapprovingly. But there were some flaws in Byler's argument, starting with his assumption that Santos' own embarrassed constituents are not "real" people. There's also the fact that Google Trends isn't a very exacting measure of interest in a subject, as it only measures if people are searching out information. It doesn't capture people who read articles they saw on social media or directly on a news website. Traffic to stories about Santos is plenty healthy on that front.

But perhaps most importantly, this narrow-minded focus on search traffic ignores what a lot of the sneered-at political observers saw coming a mile away: The imminent George Santos makeover into MAGA's Next Top Superstar.

Santos may not matter to "average" Americans, but his story is being leveraged directly into the right-wing propaganda machine that currently controls the Republican Party. On Thursday night, for instance, Santos was sanctified into the echelon of MAGA saints by the Pope of neo-fascism himself, Tucker Carlson. In a typically dishonest segment on his wildly popular Fox News show, Carlson painted Santos as a hapless victim of the bigoted news media by pretending that the only thing Santos lied about was his volleyball career. (Which is one of the more minor fake careers and hobbies Santos has claimed on his resume.) Media Matters has a sample of the extremely silly diatribe:

It was a tissue of lies constructed to deceive the American people. There was no volleyball scholarship. There was not a single dollar of volleyball scholarship. George Santos made it all up out of whole cloth, out of thin air. George Santos is an ersatz volleyball player. A fraud, a ghoul. People voted for this man believing he had played collegiate volleyball on a scholarship and he hadn't.

And yet tonight ladies and gentlemen, this thief of volleyball glory strides the halls of the United States Congress unimpeded by law enforcement. It's like another insurrection.

Carlson doesn't really have arguments or evidence, but he does do a bang-up impression of someone sarcastically brushing aside nonsense. Except what he's brushing away is usually pretty serious stuff, such as fascist attacks on democracy, attempts to save lives during a pandemic, or, in this case, unbelievable amounts of fraud that look potentially criminal in many cases. With Santos, the number of lies Carlson is ignoring is truly staggering. Santos lied about his resume, his religion, his marriage, his family history, and claimed connections he doesn't have to the Holocaust, 9/11, the Pulse nightclub shooting, and an assassination attempt that appears fictional. It is really no exaggeration to say it's easier to list the things he hasn't lied about (his age and his birthplace in Queens).

But just as Catholic saints get their status through martyrdom, the saints of MAGAdom must get theirs through falsified tales of victimhood at the hands of "woke mobs" or the "fake news media."

People right-wingers hate are alarmed at Santos and his staggering trail of fraud. So if the "libs" have a negative reaction to Santos, in the troll-based logic that drives the modern GOP, that must mean he's their newest champion. And let's just state for the record that, while Byler may not see left-leaning news consumers as "real people," he probably wouldn't say the same about the millions of Trump voters whose entire worldview is shaped by the crap that Fox News pours into their heads every day.

Carlson didn't reach the conclusion that Santos is the latest MAGA idol all on his own. Practically from the moment that Santos's deceit was exposed by the New York Times, Steve Bannon, the Joseph Goebbels-wannabe who frequently sets the GOP agenda with his popular "War Room" podcast, was championing the pathological liar. Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia have also rallied to Santos' side, claiming he's only a target because he's a "fighter." It's unclear who he has ever "fought" for besides himself, but then again, the same could be said of most MAGA figures, from Donald Trump on down.

It's not a mystery why these leaders think the right-wing audience is ready to accept Santos as the next MAGA savior. All that matters to the modern right is "owning the liberals," and who better to do that than someone who lies constantly for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it?

Certainly, Santos seems to grasp that the move that will take him from a low-level con man to the ranks of the richest MAGA grifters is to lean into trolling. So he's been rolling out the standard issue liberal-owning stunts for weeks now: Flashing the white supremacist-aligned "OK" hand signal during a House vote. (He even knew how to do it so it was clear enough to photograph but so quick he could pretend later it wasn't intentional.) Wearing an assault rifle pin while playing dumb about why it offends people to celebrate the preferred weapons of mass shooters. Feeding the press donuts and actinglike they had somehow become complicit in the evil by eating them. Getting into Twitter fights with drag queens, who are the favorite punching bag of the authoritarian right. (Santos seems to have a past as a drag queen, as well, but this is just part of a favorite right-wing trolling tactic, to recruit members of a hated minority to speak out against their own.) Dunking on former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., for criticizing him by tweeting "cry about it."

Reports suggest Santos is delighted by all the negative attention he's getting in the press. An exceptionally short-lived aide recorded a conversation in which Santos was dressing him down, and right in the middle of it, Santos suddenly exclaims, "Don Lemon just texted me — I'm sorry, I'm listening to you — Don Lemon just texted me!" Getting his name on CNN, even during a story on how he is the worst, was just that thrilling to Santos.

Santos even hired former Steve Bannon employee and professional troll, Vish Burra, as a top aide. Burra's defense of Santos is cynical and self-congratulatory: The lying is a form of "shitposting," which is internet speak for saying outlandish things to draw outrage and attention. For the Trumpist right, aggressive trolling is what politics is all about.

Imagining that they're outraging the left is what the GOP audience gets out of this. (No one tell them that the left's reaction to Santos is more amusement than genuine fury.) But there's an even darker reason that Carlson, Bannon, Taylor Greene, etc. have decided to rally round Santos: He's very useful as a weapon in their larger war on truth.

As with Trump, it's overly simplistic to look at these people, with their non-stop disinformation, as mere liars. Liars are people who are sincerely trying to deceive people. In many cases, it's not at all evident that right-wing audiences actually believe the asinine B.S. that is rolled out by the likes of Carlson and Bannon. For instance, the "outrage" over M&M spokescandy shoe choices is less sincere anger than it is a collective bit of performance art. Both Carlson and his audience merely pretend to be mad as a way to keep ironic distance from their own weird sexual hang-ups. Similarly, conspiracy theories like Trump's Big Lie are often less about true belief and more about displaying fealty to their tribe.

There's a point to right-wingers constantly saying and "believing" things they know not to be true. It's about devaluing empirical reality. Fascists want "truth" to flow from what the right-wing authority figures say is "true," not from lived experience or verifiable facts. They are trying to construct a world where facts don't matter, and only power does. The first step is getting their tribal community to agree collectively to stop distinguishing between true and false and to only claim to believe what is convenient for their leaders or their cause.

For that goal, Santos is useful. He is living the fascist dream of a man whose entire existence seems unmoored from the power of facts. If the MAGA leaders can turn him into a hero, he'd be a living exemplar of their post-truth yearnings: "Truth" can be whatever you want it to be. After all, right-wingers already hate the way facts — Trump lost the election, COVID-19 is real, LGBTQ people exist — get in the way of their desires. They just need permission to let go of that last tendril of reality and start living purely in their authoritarian fantasy world. Santos shows the way. It's unlikely he will be going away any time soon.

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Santos Benefactor Bankrolled Group Opposing LA’s Progressive Prosecutor
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A big spender on right-wing causes, investor Andrew Intrater gave seed money to a group formed to oust a reform-minded district attorney.

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At least three House Republicans this week began wearing pins in the shape of an assault weapon on their clothing. U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) were all caught on camera with the pins, leading some to express outrage.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) was among the first to circulate images of the two Republicans wearing the pins.

“Where are these assault weapon pins coming from? Who is passing these out?” he asked.

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despite all the controversy that has surrounded him, GOP Rep. George Santos of New York has maintained that he has no plans to resign from Congress and intends to serve out all of his two-year term. And Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California is in no hurry to see him go, as he has given Santos a position on the House Science Committee.

Santos’ critics have been arguing that with the Queens/Long Island congressman having lied about so many things, the last thing McCarthy should do is reward him with committee assignments. In addition to lying about his employment and education history, Santos falsely claimed that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and that his mother was inside the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Records obtained by NBC News show that Santos’ mother was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 11, 2001.

But journalist Andy Levy, co-hosting a late January episode of the Daily Beast’s podcast “The New Abnormal,” argued that as appalling as McCarthy’s decision to put Santos on the Science Committee is, it makes sense from a GOP standpoint. Republicans, Levy told co-host Danielle Moodie, “don’t believe in” science — and McCarthy thought he was putting Santos on a lesser committee.

READ MORE: George Santos is living the GOP's values

Levy told Moodie that "this is Kevin McCarthy showing exactly what he thinks of science and what he thinks of this Science Committee. It's like: Well yeah, throw George Santos on there. We don’t really need that Committee anyway. There are definitely no scientific problems threatening the entire planet. It all checks out if you look at it from that perspective. It makes perfect sense.”

Moodie, meanwhile, described her reaction upon learning that Santos will be on the Science Committee.

The co-host told Levy, “I laughed so very hard. And then, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this man is going to be on the Science Committee.’ Like, do we not realize how critical science is to where we are currently? We’ve had a global health pandemic, we have a climate change crisis, we have all of these things that are happening in the world that, you know, come back to this really important field.”

READ MORE:Kevin McCarthy standing by George Santos as scandals worsen

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Freshman New York Republican Congressman George Santos has been handed two committee assignments, including one on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, which oversees NASA.

MSNBC’s Ryan Nobles reports Santos, who is seen by many as a serial liar and is under investigation on multiple fronts, also landed a seat on the House Small Business Committee. Nobles reports Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended allowing the New York Republican two seats, citing “protocol.”

According to its government website, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has broad jurisdiction across many areas. Some could pose potential national security risks.

The committee has jurisdiction over all research and development in critical areas including energy, astronautical and outer space, civil aviation, the environment, marine research, commercial application of energy technology, and standardization of weights and measures and the metric system.

READ MORE: McCarthy Runs Defense for Santos

In addition to NASA it also oversees the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation, and the National Weather Service.

Last week Santos suggested he would like to sit on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, promising that he was a “workhorse.”

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gOP Rep. George Santos appears to have closer ties to Russian oligarchs than previously reported, according to an exclusive report from The Washington Post published Monday. 

Russian businessman Andrew Intrater and his wife donated $5,800 to a campaign committee for Santos and gave thousands more in campaign contributions since 2020, the paper reported, citing federal election data —signaling a closer financial relationship to Russian money than he previously described when he ran for office. 

Intrater is the cousin of businessman Viktor Vekselberg — one of the Russian oligarchs sanctioned by the US after the country's invasion of Ukraine last February — and Intrater's investment firm, Columbus Nova, also has ties to the billionaire.  

The embattled New York congressman, who has come under scrutiny for reportedly lying about his multiple parts of biography, has said he "embellished" some of his background and signaled he will not step down. Still, there are growing calls from Democrats for him to resign and the lawmaker is facing a House ethics process.  the Post also reported that Intrater also gave "hundreds of thousands" of dollars to Harbor City Capitol, an investment firm Santos worked for before running for Congress that was accused of running a Ponzi scheme, according to a filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Santos also claimed that Columbus Nova was his "client" while working for Harbor City Capitol to find new investors in 2020, the paper reported. However, in video footage obtained by The Post, Santos stated to potential investors who asked about other investors in a construction project, "You might know who they are," suggesting Columbus Nova.

Intrater is also a known associate of former-Trump attorney Michael Cohen as well, Insider previously reported. Intrater, who was cited in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, donated $250,000 to Trump's inaugural committee and Columbus Nova paid Cohen approximately $500,000 in consulting fees between January and August 2017. 

Representatives for Santos, Intrater and Columbus Nova did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced embattled U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who lied his way into office and just hours earlier was denounced and called on to resign by numerous local Republican Party and elected officials, will get committee assignments like every other member of the House of Representatives.

McCarthy, who very narrowly gained the Speaker’s gavel after 15 tries last week, told NBC News senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake that he “tries to stick to the constitution.”

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of House committee assignments.

“The voters elected him to serve,” McCarthy, who only has a four-seat majority, added.

READ MORE: Watch: George Santos Bragged He Was a ‘Star’ Volleyball Player at College He Did Not Attend, Says County GOP Chair

Haake adds that McCarthy “notes that Santos hasn’t been charged with a crime, and confirms Santos will receive committee assignments.”

Santos lied about nearly every aspect of his personal and professional life, and some say it’s hard to claim he was elected by voters who thought they were electing a very different person.

“Kevin McCarthy would like us to forget that a Santos staffer impersonated McCarthy’s own chief of staff, Dan Meyer, and raised money off that fraud,” adds MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin. “That sounds like straightforward wire fraud to me, and if Santos was in on that con, a conspiracy to commit wire fraud too.”

READ MORE: The Powerful GOP Oversight Committee Chairman Is Pushing a Baseless Narrative That Biden Is ‘Compromised’

NBC News adds that McCarthy said “no” when asked if Santos would be seated on top committees, like the Intelligence Committee or Armed Services or Ways and Means.

But as a sitting U.S. Congressman, Santos would still have access to important and classified information.

“Members of all congressional committees — including the Transportation and Agriculture panels — have access to sensitive information to a certain degree. And any sitting member of Congress can attend ‘all member’ classified briefings on such topics as the war in Ukraine, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the COVID-19 pandemic,” NBC News reports.

“So even if Santos is not granted a seat on a national security panel like Intelligence or Armed Services or a so-called ‘A-committee’ like Appropriations, Ways and Means or Energy and Commerce, the freshman congressman would still be privy to certain sensitive information.”

This week Insider reported on a number of ethics complaints against Santos, noting that “Santos’ history and finances are also under investigation by prosecutors at the federal level, in New York state, and in Brazil.”

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On November 10, just two days after Election Day, Jewish Insider published an interview titled, “Meet the next Jewish Republican congressman from Long Island.” Reporter Matthew Kassel wrote that George Santos “will make history as Long Island’s first openly gay representative,” and he “can also claim another unique distinction: Santos, 34, will be the only Jewish Republican member of New York’s House delegation when he is sworn in this January.”

There’s faith, and there’s heritage.

“The way I look at this is, I’m going to represent one of the most Jewish-rich districts in the country, with the most population of Jews,” Santos told Jewish Insider, “and I’m going to do that honorably.”

Barely more than a month later, not even sworn in to Congress, Santos appears to have broken his promise.

READ MORE: Why Does New York’s Alleged Fraudster Incoming Congressman Have a Florida Address? Many More Questions Still Unanswered

According to reporting from The New York Times and other publications, Santos appears to have lied about where he went to school, where he lives, where he worked, and now, as Jewish Insider’s Matthew Kassel suggests, Santos’ claim of being of Jewish heritage is being called into question by Jewish publications.

Jacob Kornbluh, a senior reporter at The Forward, a 125-year-old publication that calls itself “a leading source of news, opinion and culture through a Jewish lens,” shows Santos claiming to be of Jewish heritage.

Just months after the coronavirus pandemic began, in June of 2020, Santos got into a disturbing exchange on Twitter.

“Wow you pulled the Nazi card on the grandson of Holocaust refugees! Smart move there,” Santos charged, attacking a woman who had called him a Nazi. “I’m sure you educate you family to be just as beligerant and intolerant towards others. Sending much needed love to you! #GodBlessYou,” he added, misspelling included.

READ MORE: Watch: Zelenskyy Gives Award From ‘Hero’ Ukrainian Soldier to ‘Very Brave President’ Biden

Kornbluh pointed to that exchange and noted on Wednesday, “In 2020 Santos claimed to be the ‘grandson of Holocaust refugees.'”

Kornbluh also posted video of Santos saying, “I’m very proud of my Jewish heritage.”

He also pointed to an article at The Forward that reads: “it appears Santos is not Jewish — and lied about his family fleeing persecution during the war. Neither of his maternal grandparents appear in Brazilian immigration cards in the 1930s or 1940s, or in the databases of Yad Vashem…”

The author of that piece, Andrew Silverstein, calls Santos’ claim of being of Jewish heritage “one more lie.”

“Congressman-elect George Santos’ emotional narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled Europe during World War II appears to be untrue, like much of the rest of his campaign biography, according to genealogy websites reviewed by the Forward,” writes Silverstein.

“Santos, a Long Island Republican, has said that his father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish, and that both faiths ‘are mine.’ The very first line of the ‘About George’ page on his campaign website states: ‘George’s grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII.'”

READ MORE: Mnuchin ‘Lied’ to Congress and ‘Broke the Law to Protect Trump’s Taxes’ Says Top House Democrat

Silverstein adds: “But the website myheritage.com lists Santos’ maternal grandparents as having both been born in Brazil before the Nazis rose to power.”

And he even quoted Santos.

“Whether my mother’s Jewish background beliefs, which are mine, or my father’s Roman Catholic beliefs, which are also mine, are represented or not,” Santos told Silverstein. “I want to represent everyone else that practices every other religion to make sure everybody feels like they have a partner in me.”

He also cites another genealogist, and writes they “confirmed by email that the family does not have Ukrainian or Jewish roots.”

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David Badash The New Civil Rights Movement

December 20, 2022

George Santos, the subject of a bombshell New York Times investigation that alleges he appears to have made up large parts of his resume, is responding to the paper of record’s report – through his attorney ...

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New York Timesreports that Representative-elect George Santos, voted into to Congress last month on the GOP's New York ticket, lied on his resumé. Contrary to what he claims, "employers" such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs say they have no records of him being there.

Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.

There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.

His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth.

In brief: he lied about completing a bachelor's degree and his Wall Street work, was involved in a ponzi scheme, and he has a criminal background in Brazil, with at least one charge there outstanding. Welcome to Congress!

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Matt Schlapp is a far-right operative who wears many hats. He is chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), one of the nation's most powerful right-wing advocacy organizations. Schlapp also runs the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) events, large gatherings featuring political extremists and conspiracy theorists like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, and former White House chief strategist (and convicted felon) Steve Bannon. Schlapp also runs his own lobbying firm, Cove Strategies, although he lost many of his corporate clients following his vitriolic attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement.

And last Friday night, Schlapp hosted a holiday party.

In the world of political influence, parties are a way of demonstrating your stature. You can show your power by your ability to get other powerful people to show up. So it's not enough to host the party. Afterward, someone has to leak the attendees to the media. The guests at Schlapp's party were leaked to Politico:

— SPOTTED at MattandMercy Schlapp’s annual Christmas party at their Alexandria home on Friday night: Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Rep. Matt Gaetz(R-Fla.) and Ginger Gaetz, Sean Spicer, Alex Acosta, Sebastian Gorka, StephenandKatie Miller, Chad Wolf, Greta Van SusterenandJohn Coale, Laura SchlappandBryan Wells, Brendan Carr,Rep.-electGeorge Santos (R-N.Y.), Erinand Nick Perrine, Erik Prince, Ziad Ojakli, Peter Davidson, Steve Holland andBen Terris.

The fact that Justice Kavanaugh's name is listed first is not an accident. Getting a Supreme Court Justice to drop by is a coup.

At the party, Kavanaugh was joined by guests that have business before the Supreme Court. Stephen Miller, a former advisor to Trump with an affinity for white nationalists, currently runs America First Legal — an organization involved in several cases currently pending before Kavanaugh and the other members of the Supreme Court.

Chris Geitner, the author of Law Dork, detailed the Supreme Court cases that America First Legal is actively involved in:

America First Legal filed an amicus brief on its own behalf in the Harvard race-conscious admissions case, another amicus brief on its own behalf in the Alabama Voting Rights Act case, and — wait for it — an amicus brief on its own behalf in the “independent state legislature” case, argued just two days before the party. The group is also counsel to a group of lawmakers, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, who filed an amici brief that same day, Dec. 7, in a big tech case involving Section 230 liability immunity that the court granted earlier this fall and will be hearing in the new year.

Similarly, the ACU has been involved in several Supreme Court cases with Kavanaugh on the bench. The group submitted a brief in 2020 supporting Oracle in its copyright battle with Google. (A company Schlapp also represents as a federal lobbyist.) In 2021, the ACU filed at least five amicus briefs, including one in a case on sentencing reductions for crack-cocaine offenders and another in a case on seizing guns from high-risk individuals.

If Kavanaugh was a judge in any other federal court, his attendance at Schlapp's party might have violated Cannon 2 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Specifically, Kavanaugh is permitting Schlapp and others to, at a minimum, "convey the impression" that they have special access.

A judge should neither lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others nor convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge.

The Code of Conduct for United States Judges, however, does not apply to members of the Supreme Court. The lack of formal ethical guidelines for the Supreme Court is one of the reasons why public trust in the institution is rapidly declining.

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