Santos is asked to resign due to further scandals
The saga surrounding New York Republican Congressman George Santos continues. Considering the speed and frequency with which it generates political scandals, it may well become an alternative source of energy. Sensing lies in his words (I wrote about examples of fabrication of his biography here), journalists continue to delve into his biography.
Santos said that his mother was in the Twin Towers building on September 11, 2001, but it turned out that she was not in the United States at all at that time. And when his mother died in 2016, he said he had no money for a funeral (though he boasted of his financial success during the campaign) and set up a GoFundMe page under the name Anthony Devolder to solicit donations. A couple of weeks later, he invited his friend to go to a ski resort, perhaps with this money.
But this is not the only alter ego of Santos. His neighbor said that Santos created a page on the same GoFundMe supposedly to raise money for a non-existent shelter for stray animals. He then used the name Anthony Zebrowski, telling a neighbor that Jews would donate more to him if they thought he was Jewish too.
Speaking of animals, Santos set up a GoFundMe page to raise donations for a homeless disabled veteran's dying service dog, raised $3000 and pocketed it, which he strenuously denies.
Then photos surfaced from 2008 of Santos dressing as a drag queen in Brazil under the name Kitara Rawash. The similarity is striking, but Santos himself also denies this, although what’s wrong with this is an everyday matter, especially since, as he himself claims, he is gay.
Amid these scandals, already 8 Republican congressmen (five of them from his state of New York) have called on Santos to resign. GOP chapters in two state counties passed similar resolutions. Theoretically, Santos could be removed from office by the vote of 2/3 of congressmen, but this is unlikely, especially given such a shaky Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The district from which Santos/Devolder/Zebrovsky/Rawash were elected is quite swinging; in the event of a by-election, it could be taken by the Democrats.
Author: Yan Veselov
