Lying, whining, thieving, lying, fraudulent, horrid, lying congressman expelled
How about that: George Santos, or Anthony Devolder, or George Santos-Devolder, or whatever he’s called himself lately, has been expelled from the House of Representatives after a months-long bi-partisan ethics investigation found that he told every lie and did every single thing he said he never did. The vote was 301 members, including 105 Republicans, in favor of getting rid of the bothersome little nit. More Republicans, 114 of them, voted to keep him in office than were in favor of expelling him.
“Why would I want to stay here?” Santos told reporters after fighting for the last 11 months to keep his seat. “To hell with this place.”
Incredibly, Santos will continue to be allowed the privileges of all former members of congress, including walking onto the House floor anytime he wants, coming and going at the Capitol building as if nothing has happened, exercising in the House gym, and eating at the House cafeteria. His status as a regular former congressman will be cancelled only if he is convicted of a crime or a special vote is taken to formally strip him of his privileges. With Mike “On Bended Knee” Johnson as Speaker, that vote is about as likely as Johnson skipping Sunday School.
Santos lied about practically everything in his background when running for congress in 2021. He said his mother was a Holocaust survivor. Not. He said she was in the World Trade Center on 9/11. She was in Brazil. He claimed he graduated from Baruch College and was employed by Godman Sachs. Colleges and investment banks keep records of their graduates and employees. In neither place did his name appear on their records. He claimed that he lost four “employees” in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He didn’t have any employees at the time of the shooting because he didn’t have a company to employ them.
Santos, or Devolder, or however he describes himself, claimed on federal campaign forms that he loaned his campaign $500,000 in 2021. He didn’t have a half million dollars to make such a loan, but once in congress, he began paying himself back for the loan. Santos has been indicted for fraud for both reporting a non-existent loan and for fraudulently taking campaign funds that were donated to his campaign from real people who had real money to donate.
Sadly, we’ll be hearing about this guy for months to come, as he faces indictments for multiple counts of fraud and other scams by which he took money from campaign donors and used it for his own purposes. One of the things he fraudulently spent money on was Botox injections in his face. Oh, good, yet another wrinkle-free thieving ex-congressman.
Congressional staffers in Santos’s or Devolder’s or whoever’s Capitol Hill office could not provide reporters with a schedule for when he will clear out his office of all the stuff he bought with money he stole. It is a sure bet they’ll be needing some rather large boxes.
He's going to work at X as director of truthiness.
I’m going to miss his entertainment value. Ironic, isn’t it, that a two-bit GOP liar and thief gets booted out of Congress but a multi-million dollar liar and thief is the leader and likely presidential candidate of the GOP. Moral: steal big; lie big. No one likes a two-bit player.