Soft landing
George Santos too much even for some Republicans.
The difference between the first two unsuccessful expulsion attempts and this one was the release of a damning ethics committee report that provided extensive details of alleged misconduct by Mr Santos.
“Damning” may be an understatement, in fact. The 56-page report detailed “substantial evidence” of corruption, fraud and misuse of campaign funds that included personal expenditures on clothing, Botox treatments and OnlyFans, a platform where users pay for content, including pornography.
Hahahahahaha botox and porn. What a twerp.
When combined with Mr Santos’s well-established lying about his personal history during his 2022 congressional campaign and his multi-count federal indictment for money laundering, fraud, identity theft and falsifying documents, a near majority of House Republicans had more than enough cover to finally abandon their colleague.
Oh is that all it took. How very ethical they are.
He can still enjoy the privileges afforded former members of Congress who leave under less controversial circumstances. As long as he isn’t criminally convicted, and doesn’t work as a foreign lobbyist or advocate for a specific piece of legislation, he will be able to stroll the halls of the Congress and access the floor of the House of Representatives. He can dine in the exclusive House restaurant, exercise in the Capitol gym and borrow books from the Library of Congress.
And no work to do! Win-win!
With a CV like that, he should be running for the presidential nomination; I hear the current front runner has very similar qualifications.
All that detailed evidence of massive misconduct, and still only enough to get “a near majority of House Republicans”. The majority of those toads are still fine with the guy.
Holms, maybe they’re afraid it they’re too tough on the guy it’ll set precedent, and their own grievous misdeeds will come back to bite them in the butt someday. Or am I being too cynical (again)?
Not being too cynical iknklast. In some respects his malfeasance is too close to Trump’s, and what trumpets aspire to getting away with. If they take action against Santos, they’d have to agree that action against Trump (or them) would be warranted – and that can never be.