Earlier this month, the Home Ethics Committee launched an investigation into Congressman George Santos, a probe that may look into every part from his lengthy listing of biographical lies to potential marketing campaign finance violations to an allegation of sexual misconduct that he denies. Whereas it stays to be seen whether or not the freshman consultant might be booted from Congress, or punished in another method, one factor that does appear clear is that he’s most definitely not getting a second time period, given {that a} comical variety of his constituents need him to resign. Then again, no less than one individual appears to consider the man’s obtained a shot.
Clearly, that individual is himself George Santos, who on Tuesday filed paperwork to formally declare his 2024 candidacy. Requested final week by CNN if he’d deliberate to go run once more, the New York Republican responded, “Perhaps.” Final month, the outlet reported that “after beforehand signaling to Republicans he wouldn’t search reelection,” Santos had been telling individuals he was contemplating a second time period and that he would “finally be cleared of all wrongdoing.” Along with the Home ethics probe, the congressman can be reportedly underneath investigation by, amongst others, the New York lawyer normal’s workplace, the Nassau district lawyer’s workplace, the Queens district lawyer’s workplace, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI is reportedly wanting into allegations that Santos ghosted a homeless veteran after elevating hundreds of {dollars} supposed to pay for a life-saving surgical procedure for the person’s service canine, a narrative Santos has insisted is “faux.”
Talking of fakes, we assume that, along with the above, the Home panel might be Santos’s false claims that:
We’re guessing they’ll additionally wish to discover out extra in regards to the expenses towards him in Brazil—which heart on a criminal offense that he initially admitted to earlier than claiming to have by no means damaged the legislation—in addition to ones towards him in a case involving Amish canine breeders. (These expenses have been later dropped, however an lawyer who helped him combat the costs has mentioned she now not buys his story.) Oh, and the questions surrounding the $705,000 he personally loaned his 2022 marketing campaign, regardless of, in 2020, disclosing that he made $55,000 and had no vital belongings. (In seemingly associated information, within the Tuesday submitting declaring his candidacy, Santos mentioned, per CNN, “that he doesn’t anticipate expending his private funds on a reelection bid.”)
Chatting with Newsday on Tuesday, Nassau County Republican Celebration chairman Joseph Cairo mentioned Santos “won’t obtain the Nassau GOP’s endorsement for reelection in 2024,” including: “If he decides to run, we are going to oppose and beat him.”
