George Santos has epic meltdown on three-hour livestream as he calls Ethics Committee chairman a ‘p***y’ and accuses ‘hypocrite’ colleagues of getting drunk before votes and cheating on spouses with lobbyists
New York Congressman George Santos railed against the House Ethics Committee for three hours on Friday in a livestream on X, calling the committee chairman a “p***” and its members “hypocrites.”
Santos, 35, was excoriated in a 56-page report by the commission, which was released on November 16 after nearly nine months of investigation.
Investigators found that Santos spent campaign funds on Botox treatments, designer goods, porn site OnlyFans and lavish trips with his husband — and explained how he allegedly tried to conceal the transactions.
The committee’s Republican chairman, Michael Guest, introduced a resolution Thursday to expel Santos from the House of Representatives. The vote is expected next week.
Santos held a livestream Friday evening in which he said he thought he was going to be deported and mocked the committee members. He accused his colleagues in the House of Representatives of casting votes with a hangover, cheating on their spouses and being “hypocritical.”
George Santos held a livestream on X on Friday night, where he said he expected to be expelled from Congress – and attacked his fellow members
Michael Guest, a Republican from Mississippi, is chairman of the House Ethics Committee
“I know I will be expelled if this expulsion resolution comes up,” he said during a conversation on X Spaces on Friday evening.
“I’ve been calculating it over and over again and it doesn’t really look right.”
He attacked Gast on the livestream, saying the chairman should “be a man and stop being ap***y and make the damn motion.”
But he spared none of his colleagues, accusing them all of “pretending that they sit in ivory towers with white pointed hats and that they are untouchable.”
He added: ‘Within the ranks of the US Congress there are a lot of criminals, there are people from all kinds of timid backgrounds.’
Some, he said, are “more concerned about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyists they’re going to screw” than about doing their job.
“I’m not running for re-election because I don’t want to work with a bunch of hypocrites,” he said.
‘It is dirty.’
Santos is photographed at the Capitol on October 13
Although Santos has survived two expulsion votes, many of his colleagues who previously opposed the effort now say they support it, citing the findings of the committee’s months-long investigation in a wide range of alleged misconduct by Santos.
“Representative Santos attempted to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his candidacy for the House of Representatives for his own personal financial gain,” investigators wrote. They noted that he did not cooperate with the report and repeatedly “dodged” simple requests for information.
On Friday, Santos said he did not want to discuss the details of the report, which he said was “defamatory” and “intended to force me from my seat.”
According to him, any defense of his behavior could be used against him in the fight ongoing criminal case filed by federal prosecutors.
Instead, Santos struck a contemplative tone during the three-hour livestream, which traced his journey from Republican “it girl” to “the Mary Magdalene of the U.S. Congress.”
His decision not to seek re-election, he said, was not because of outside pressure, but because of his frustration with the “sheer arrogance” of his colleagues.
“These people need to understand that it’s done when I say it’s done, when I want it done, not when they want it done,” he added.
“That’s about where we are now.”