George Santos EXPELLED from Congress: The Long Island Liar loses his job after Republicans join Democrats to boot him out of Capitol Hill

Daily Mail UK ^ | December 1, 2023 | Morgan Phillips

[Morgana]

Republican fabulist George Santos has been expelled from Congress in an extraordinary vote after his long history of lying was exposed and he was hit with multiple criminal charges.

The Long Island congressman, who stole donor funds to spend on OnlyFans and Botox, fled Capitol Hill as he became just the sixth House member in history to be kicked out.

Over 100 Republicans joined Democrats in booting out the fabulist liar in a historic vote Friday totaling 311 to 114, with two members voting 'present.'

Santos stormed off the House floor minutes before the vote sealing his fate concluded. He warned reporters immediately after that the House 'set a new dangerous precedent for themselves' adding, 'to hell with this place.'

Facing the daunting vote count, serial fabulist 35-year-old George Santos remained defiant until the very end, but said he would leave Congress if it is 'God's will.'

His mountains of lies include fabricating family links to the Holocaust, 9/11 killing his mother, working on Wall Street, recovering from a brain tumor, being of Ukrainian-Jewish descent and starting a charity.

[MagaMatt]

How can any of the bastards in that town keep their jobs then?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””The question to answer is why couldn’t they wait 11 more months for the next election to let his district decide to correct a mistake?”””

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I believe New York will hold a 2024 Primary Election within 5 months, so New Yorkers would not have to wait 11 months until the 2024 General Election to let the voters decide.

If half the reports about Santos are true, he is pretty scummy and even by New York standards of scumminess, Santos probably would not get past the Primary. And that assumes he would even run again.

[Political Junkie Too]

I believe New York will hold a 2024 Primary Election within 5 months, so New Yorkers would not have to wait 11 months until the 2024 General Election to let the voters decide.

At the cost of a House precedent? Were those few months worth the price?

-PJ

[virgil]

Yes, and I think they should have let the voters take care of George Santos next year. GOP isn’t going to be around much longer. You can’t have half the country being represented by a stupid, do nothing political party. Not anymore.

[mass55th]

"Anyone see this coming?"

Yeah, because Republicans are their own worst enemy.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””At the cost of a House precedent? Were those few months worth the price?”””

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We are in agreement that setting a new precedent for expelling a member, who has not been convicted of a crime, is not a good idea.

[Thud]

My understanding is that Santos did more than divert campaign contributions to his personal spending. He ripped off more than a few donor credit cards for far more money than the amount of the contribution, to the tune of at least several hundred thousand dollars. Some of the victims spent many thousands of dollars trying to get their money back.

This was a direct threat to all of Congress, who risked loss of credit card contributions from donors' fear that they too might be ripped off like Santos did. They had to expel Santos to protect themselves.

Santos was too greedy and stupid to live. I expect federal prosecutors will nail him for credit card fraud.

[alstewartfan]

I despise the cowardice of Republicans. They are repulsive.

[Revel]

If George had only pulled a fire alarm then he would walked away Scott free.

[Steven Scharf]

Member Date Reason
John B. Clark 1861 Fighting for the Confederacy
John W. Reid 1861 Fighting for the Confederacy
Henry C. Burnett 1861 Fighting for the Confederacy
Michael J. Myers 1980 Convicted of bribery
James A. Traficant 2002 Convicted of several crimes,
including bribery
George Santos 2023 Alleged misuse of campaign
funds

These members were expelled, but how many from each party have resigned over the years before being expelled?

[Fledermaus]

Only 2 of 8 TN Republicans voted to oust. Rose is a wimp. I’m surprised Mark Green did. He’s my Representative.

He will hear from me.

[Fledermaus]

And we have video evidence of Bowman committing a crime.

[Fledermaus]

Yet Biden gets away with all of that and more.

[gas_dr]

You make good points. However in a republic, they congress was left with authority to govern each chamber. The representatives make the disciplinary rules consistent with the will of their districts and reflected by the authority of the constitution regarding constitutional officers relative to impeachment (suoermajoriry to expel). Each of the representatives who voted to expel on the republican side decided this was the will of their constituents. It is not an inconsistent position to hold.

But your remarks make me think long and hard to refine my position. I appreciate that very much

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks for the fair reply.

I agree that it is within their power to act as they did, but was it a wise move?

It's like the person who says "but there is no law against it," when everyone knows it's just plain wrong to do.

-PJ

[gas_dr]

Wisdom and politics are most frequently anathema to one another. It’s the peril — and hidden genius of our founding fathers — you know, the evil white men.

[al_c]

You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[PIF]

a clown with a perfect conservative voting record to be replaced with a Democrat