There’s a lot George Santos is dishonest about, John.
He’s dishonest about his work experience, his education, his family history, and his heritage. He lied to voters, his campaign made fundraising calls to donors pretending to be Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff in order to get big donations, and he falsified his entire resume while running for office.
We’ve learned not to trust ANYTHING Santos says. He has no business holding office after tricking voters into electing him, and he is doing his constituents an enormous disservice by remaining in Congress.
Simply put, he’s a fraud.
But with his actions, Santos showed us something we absolutely CAN believe: how extreme the Republican Party has become.
When Santos arrived in Congress, no one — not even extremist Republicans — wanted to have anything to do with him. But after cameras caught him flashing a “white power” hand sign during the Speaker votes, Republicans seemed to warm up to him pretty quickly.
Apparently, all it takes to get in the good graces of the GOP is to signal that you’re cool with white supremacy.
So in this Worst Behavior Watch, we’re calling out Santos for lying his way into office by tricking voters. But we’re also calling out the entire Republican Party for their embrace of extremism. Santos’ little hand signal on the floor of the House should have been all the more reason to ostracize him. Yet it was around that time that Republicans started welcoming him into their ranks.
