Mitt Romney seems to tell Republican fabulist George Santos ‘you should be ashamed’

Republican fantasist George Santos grabbed one of the coveted aisle seats before the State of the Union address on Tuesday.

From here, members of Congress can shake hands with Supreme Court Justices, Cabinet Secretaries, or even the President himself.

But Santos got much more than he bargained for. Video footage showed Sen. Mitt Romney confronting the serial liar and saying what appeared to be: “You should be ashamed.”

Santos, who was caught fabricating his college and employment history, as well as his status as a volleyball champion and claiming that his mother was at the World Trade Center on the day of the 9/11 attacks, seemed surprised, even when he appeared. to return fire.

Romney seems to repeat the same words several times to the newly elected Republican representative from New York.

The exchange was not caught on audio, though lip readers were quick to chime in on social media.

A member also reportedly heard Romney say, “You don’t belong here.”

It happened minutes before President Joe Biden arrived on the chamber to deliver his State of the Union address, with US senators and representatives chatting among themselves.

And it came the same day that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appeared to reveal that Santos was facing an investigation.

“Ethics is moving forward, and if ethics finds anything, we will take action,” McCarthy said CNN. “Right now, we’re not allowing him to be on the committees from the point of view of the questions that have been raised.”

He later said he did not intend to confirm that Santos was the subject of a formal investigation, but rather that he was the subject of ethics complaints.

The New York Republican, nicknamed the Long Island Liar for the many lies he told about his biography, told CNN he was “not concerned” about the House ethics investigation.

It comes on the same day that a group of New Yorkers from Santos’ 3rd Congressional District came to Washington, DC demanding his resignation.

Romney and Santos clashed as members took their seats before the speech.

He has repeatedly said that he will not resign.

That leaves the Republicans in a bind. Santos is a key vote for them in a narrow House, but many have raised concerns about the way he won elections last year with a highly decorated resume.

Residents of Long Island and Queens gathered in front of the US Capitol for a press conference led by New York House Democrats Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman.

They not only pushed for Santos to resign, but also pressured McCarthy to “do the right thing” and forced the embattled representative out of Congress.

Goldman told reporters after the news conference that Santos’ continued tenure in the House was a stain on the institution, while noting that Republican leaders have not taken action against him.

New questions have surfaced almost daily.

New York Democratic Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres, both representing New York City’s congressional districts, led a press conference in front of the US Capitol with residents of the Santos district.

The 34-year-old New York politician reportedly told donors during his 2021 congressional campaign that he produced Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark, which ran from 2011 to 2014, but the lead producer Michael Cohl disputed these claims.

Santos said he attended the Horace Mann School, an elite private school in Brox, where tuition costs $59,800 per year. The school said no.

Some claim that he has already returned. When he applied, he said he worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, but now says he used a “poor choice of words” in describing his relationship with the two firms.

In 2016, he claimed he was robbed of $2,250 in a robbery on his way to pay his rent, but police have no record of the incident.

The list goes on.