Recently, a former staffer of George Santos who spoke to Talking Points memo on the condition
of anonymity, predicted that his former boss is going to jail here, is what that staffer
had to say. I got nervous and I got defensive that things were not on the up and up. I felt
like things were not right. I thought that the lack of a financial disclosure, the messiness
of the books and the reporting were not great. Lying on your resume is one thing, but I think
George is going to be perp walked out of a building because of this financial mess. So
of course, what he is referring to are the myriad of financial problems plaguing George
Santos right now. Now it's bad enough, all the lies that Santos has told, you know, the,
the deception of the voters to even get into office in the first place, but technically
none of that is criminal.
And, and that in of it itself is a problem. Like that should be not legal. But
you can do it because we just never thought as a country we'd hit the point where somebody
would do that. But here we are, but it's the financial issues. And here, of course, is
what the staffer is talking about. Santos went from having zero assets to his name and
only about $55,000 to being allegedly a multimillionaire. And nobody knows where that money came from,
right? He hasn't exactly been completely open and honest about anything, but most specifically
his, his career, he said like, I've got high profile clients. Yeah, but, but who And clients
for what? Like you, you gotta, you gotta couple a little bit more. You don't even have a financial
disclosure. So we can't track where all of this money came from. So that's a big problem.
And of course, it is something that is being investigated right now. Technically, Santos
is under four different investigations, maybe five if the f e c decides to take action.
You've got the local Nassau County looking into him, state officials in New York, looking
into him, a federal investigation looking into him. And then of course, the officials
in Brazil who are hoping to extradite him and put him on trial down to their country.
Um, and then of course, as I said, if the f e c wants to look into why he took illegal
foreign campaign contributions, that would be number five. But his personal finances,
right? That's, that's where the big red flags are right now, in addition to the F E C. But
he loaned his campaign $705,000. It's also on the record that he took money from donors
that exceeded the legal limits, whi, which is illegal
Also on his donor, you know, forms that you have to submit, uh, uh, when you're running
for office. Some of the people are listed as simply anonymous. And when you give money
as a human being directly to a politician, you can't remain anonymous unless the donation
is under $200 and we're talking about thousands of dollars. And it simply says anonymous.
That's also not allowed. And then of course, as this staffer who p uh, pointed out, the
books were messy, nobody was really keeping track of things. It was all shady, it was
all very secret. We don't know what was going on. But with the multiple different investigations
happening, I, I think it's safe to say that somebody somewhere is going to figure out
what was going on. And if of course there was anything illegal, that's when Karma's
going to come back and bite George Santos in the behind.
Until then, all we can do is sit back and watch the crap show unfold because Kevin McCarthy
has made it clear that his Republicans are gonna do absolutely nothing about George Santos
until maybe they're forced to do it, and even then, they technically don't have to. George
Santos could not only be arrested, he could be tried, he could be found guilty and sent
to prison, and technically Kevin McCarthy would not have to call for a vote to expel
him. Being arrested does not disqualify you from Congress. They would have to actually
vote to expel him. And given the current makeup of Congress, I don't even think we can trust
the Republicans to do that.