The New York Republican congressman, fabulist and criminal defendant George Santos said he would not seek re-election next year, after the US House ethics committee issued a report detailing “grave and pervasive campaign finance violations and fraudulent activity” and recommended action against him.
“I will NOT be seeking re-election for a second term in 2024 as my family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time,” Santos said, calling the report “biased” and “a disgusting politicised smear”.
But after the report detailed his conduct, moves to introduce a new expulsion resolution began.
“Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit,” the committee said.
There won’t be enough republicans who are willing to expel a fellow republican. The margin on their majority is very thin.
Hell, in the last vote to sanction him, more Democrats than Republicans voted against the sanctions. I don’t even know what the fuck that was all about.
I think the idea was “he’s innocent until proven guilty” and removing him would start a bad precedent of ejecting people for illegitimate reasons. But now there’s an ethics report from a bipartisan committee saying he’s a bag of shit so they can say they’ve done their due diligence and claim it isn’t a knee-jerk political decision.