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Rep. George Santos, the scandal-plagued Republican congressman who was caught lying about a significant part of his backstory, signaled early Saturday that he intends to serve out his term representing New York’s 3rd Congressional District.
Santos issued a statement shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday, after he and the other members of the House of Representatives were sworn in at the 118th Congress, following a traffic jam from the Speaker’s gavel.
The gay New York Republican admitted to lying about having worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as well as the universities he claimed to have attended. He is also accused of falsely claiming that his grandparents were Jewish Holocaust survivors and that he was married to a woman until shortly before running for Congress for the first time in 2020.
Both state and federal investigations have been opened to determine whether their questionable accounts led to the breaking of any laws.
However, Santos said his work on Capitol Hill “is not about [his] personal life’ and called on Americans and fellow lawmakers to ‘put political differences aside.’
George Santos issued a statement declaring that he is “committed” to serving his district shortly after taking the oath of office in Congress on Saturday morning.
Later that day, protesters lined up outside Santos’ office in Queens, New York, to demand that he be jailed and that he no longer represent his urban/suburban district.
“I am committed to serving the people of New York’s 3rd Congressional District and finding solutions to solve difficult problems,” Santos said.
“The work begins today, and I am determined to work with Republicans and Democrats and support a strong policy that provides funding for local law enforcement and reduces inflation.”
He continued: “Now is the time to put political differences aside, stop pointing fingers and start getting results.”
“The job of Congress is not about my personal life, it’s about delivering results for my constituents, finding bipartisan solutions and reversing abysmal policies that have caused some of the worst inflation and crime in our nation’s history.”
Just hours after he was sworn in to Congress, Santos’ Long Island constituents took to the streets of Queens to once again demand that he resign from office.
They yelled: ‘Lock him up!’ – a line originally used by former President Donald Trump in reference to the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Just hours after he was sworn in to Congress, Santos’ Long Island constituents took to the streets of Queens to once again demand that he resign from office. They yelled: ‘Lock him up’ after it was revealed that he lied on his resume
“It’s crazy that I still have a job right now,” one of the protesters told the reporter. Oliya scooter. “He completely made up everything on his resume and tried to excuse himself by saying that everyone does that, but people like to lie about knowing how to excel when they only know how to excel, you don’t lie about your family dying in the Holocaust or 9/11.
That is so immoral.
Among the protesters were Robert Zimmerman, his Democratic opponent, Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, and activist Jody Kass Finkel.
“My only focus and my only agenda is to build a bipartisan coalition to remove George Santos from office. He is a fraud and a danger to both our country and the citizens of our constituency, if he is actually called George Santos,” Zimmerman told the New York Post.
Protesters took turns speaking at the rally and were often caught chanting as a group: ‘We deserve better!’ and ‘Liar, liar, pants on fire!’
One protester accused Santos of weaponizing the Jewish religion.
Trivializing the million lives lost in the Holocaust for personal political gain is disgusting,” the man said.
“It’s crazy that I still have a job right now,” said one of the demonstrators at the protest. “He completely made up everything on his resume and tried to excuse himself by saying everyone does that but people like to lie about standing out when they only know how to stand out, you don’t lie about your family dying in the Holocaust or 9/11 ‘
Santos has revealed that he lied about his resume and about the death of his family in the Holocaust and on 9/11.
One of the biggest lies he told was that his mother died during 9/11. Now, his former roommate, Gregory Morey-Parker, who rented a room from Santos in Jackson Heights, has dismissed Santos’ claims.
He said: ‘I’m absolutely sure you would have known if Fatima was on 9/11. I’m sure she would have brought [being in 9/11] until.’
Santos’s mother, Fatima, died in 2016 of cancer.
Morey-Parker lived with the family in Queens and said she grew up quite close to Fatima. While living with them, Santos called himself Anthony Devolder.
While living with the family, she said Santos lied multiple times, including when she claimed her family owned a home on Nantucket and often said she had bought a bottle of liquor to share when Fatima had actually bought it, she said. , according to Patch.
“Santos had delusions of grandeur,” he said. Fatima would just roll her eyes and say, “Anthony and the story about him.” His mother was simply not happy with him and the ridiculous lifestyle of his that she was portraying.