Turns out that Republican freshman congressman and
well known pathological liar George Santos competed in drag queen
beauty pageants when he was living in Brazil.
This is from 15 years ago, there is evidence that
has surfaced lately as a result of this story.
Obviously, I think there's nothing wrong with drag queens.
I think that they're fun.
But the Republican party has spent a lot of time in recent months making
it appear as though drag queens should be public enemy number one.
That they're super dangerous,
that they're corrupting the minds of children across the country.
And so maybe that's the reason why George Santos has decided to
deny that he competed in drag queen beauty pageants in the past.
But we do have the evidence stick around for that.
But first, how do we find out about this?
How did it come to light Junk,
turns out that someone who was an acquaintance of his came forward.
This acquaintance spoke to MSNBC journalist, Marisa Kabas,
the 58 year old Brazilian performer who uses the drag name Eula Rochard,
said she befriended the now congressman when he was cross
dressing in 2005 at the first gay pride parade in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro.
Three years later,
Santos competed in a drag beauty pageant in Rio according to his acquaintance.
Now everyone knew him as Anthony never George or
by his drag name Kitara and she provided receipts.
So I know it's a grainy image, but
on the right hand side that is where you will see Forge Santos.
>> Okay, on that one I wasn't positive that it was Santos,
even though everybody was saying it was clear.
>> We have more evidence.
>> But then I saw the second picture and I was like, yeah.
>> Graphic 4.
>> Yeah, that's him, [LAUGH] that's a much, much clearer picture.
Look at the cheeks, look at the nose, look at the eyes, look at the teeth,
that's definitely him.
So, well now he's in trouble.
>> Is he though, is he though, because look, do I think that conservatives and
the Republican party in general genuinely sees drag queens as a threat to children?
No, but what they love to do is provide the squirrels and they love to find and
target a particular group to fear monger about for
their campaigning purposes because again, what else would they campaign on?
Their crappy economic policies that rigged the economic system in
favor of the rich and to the detriment of the poor?
That wouldn't play so well with their base.
>> Yeah, No, I know Anna, but that's why he's in trouble.
So look, if you're a Republican, can you lie and get away with it?
[LAUGH] We're not mainstream media.
Almost all the republicans lie, almost all the politicians lie, Republicans and
Democrats and we're talking about lying.
We're talking about lying.
The leader of the Republican party was Donald Trump.
I'm not sure who's a bigger pathological liar Donald Trump or George Santos.
Media makes it sound like, Santos, the one guy who's a liar, who's a politician?
Are you guys kidding me, are you joking?
Okay, so of course the Republicans don't mind him being a liar.
Not only the Republican politicians and McCarthy remember needed his vote as he
was trying to become speaker of the house, that's why he backed him.
And remember that he wanted a district that is actually a Biden district.
So that problems don't want to get rid of him because of that cuz they were afraid
of losing the seat, right?
Cuz it's all about power.
So that's why Santos was pretty safe liar.
They're like welcome to the party, right?
And then apparently we found out the other day that he took $3000
that he was gonna save a dog's life.
Let the dog die.
>> A homeless veteran who had a service dog that needed surgery to live
unfortunately cross paths was George Santos who put up a go fund me
fundraiser page for the surgery, but then took the money and ran.
>> Yeah, but new Republicans mind that,
[CROSSTALK] Trump ripped off veterans all the time, right?
Trump ran a fake charity just like George Santos did, but
Trump's fake charity had a lot more money and they would use it for
certain things like buying a giant painting of Donald Trump twice, okay?
And they had to pay a fine and
shut it down because even Trump admitted it was a scam.
So they don't mind any of that.
You didn't mind the dead dog.
I mean this country goes nuts for dogs, right?
But even that they would be like, who cares?
That just shows that he's vicious and Republican voters like vicious, right?
And they're like a con man that's smart, it's good business, it's good business.
Whoever gave him money is a sucker and a loser, right?
But a drag queen, we can't have it.
>> No, but let me finish my thought because they scare monger about drag
queens for campaigning purposes because they want power, but
once they have the power they don't care.
>> I know, but it's embarrassing them.
>> You think the Republican party is capable of feeling embarrassment, Cenk?
>> Yes.
>> What?
>> So hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
And this might be missing a critical element, I know that.
But remember Madison Cawthorn did embarrass them because he mentioned that
they were doing orgies and they were doing cocaine, okay?
And what did they used to make sure that he lost?
They showed pictures of him cross dressing.
>> I know, but they went after Madison Cawthorn because he said something that
could potentially hurt members of the Republican Party, so they retaliated.
>> I know, but the reason why this hurts members of the Republican Party cuz
they're all going on the warpath.
They said, we don't mind drag queens, we're just worried that a single child
might see it and then all of a sudden they would become gay or something, right?
So that's their whole, what else do they have?
They don't have anything else like Adam said earlier,
it's not like they they're gonna fight for workers.
So this undermines their one thing which is to all the people we hate.
So it's tough to hate them when Santos apparently was a dragon.
So look, I'm not saying they're gonna get rid of them cuz they still need that seat.
>> Yes, they're not gonna give that seat.
>> Okay, but I'm just saying this is the thing that makes it the most likely out of
all the different horrible things that he's done.
And by the way there's nothing wrong with being a drag queen.
My point is Republican take a thing that's perfectly benign and
say that's way worse than him being a liar, a thief etc.
>> Yeah, look, in my opinion,
nothing that could potentially come out about this guy that would convince
Republican leadership to pressure him to resign or for Republican
leadership to retaliate against him the way they did with Madison Cawthorn.
I would be shocked, especially considering that seat that he won, that
George Santos won was held by a Democrat and it was flipped by George Santos.
In their minds forcing him to resign and potentially having a special election
would make them lose another member of the Republican Party in the House,
which would make their majority in the House even slimmer, right?
So I doubt they're going to do anything.
At the end of the day everything they do is motivated by their quest for
political power, okay?
So with that said, let's talk about how he was a really bad drag queen,
cuz that's fun.
Okay, so Rochard said the congressman was a poor
drag queen In 2005 with a simple black dress.
But in 2008 he came back with a lot of money and
a flamboyant pink dress to show for it.
Santos competed in a drag beauty pageant that year but lost.
So he tried to bring it but didn't really bring it.
He's changed a lot, but he was always a liar.
He was always such a dreamer, Rochard said.
And so he, by the way, denies all of this.
He's like people, people are showing pictures of me dressed as a drag queen and
accusing me of being a drag queen beauty pageants and it's a lie.
Here's the exact- >> [LAUGH] [CROSSTALK].
>> he lied about where his mother was on 9 11, do you guys remember that.
He campaigned claiming that his mom was at the towers on September 11,
luckily she escaped, but she became very sick thanks to that toxic dust and
died because of 9/11 due to the inhalation of that.
Turns out she wasn't even in the United States, she was in Brazil at the time.
>> Yeah, well that toxic dust does travel.
Could have reached all the way by the way, she died 15 years later.
Okay, but tell me the difference between George Santos and Donald J Trump.
All right, while you're doing that, we also have a poll for you guys.
What is he more likely to basically get in trouble for
participating in a drag show or scamming a homeless veteran and letting his dog die?
Now Americans love veterans, they love dogs, so I don't know.
Are the Republicans still human?
Do they still like these dogs and veterans?
We'll find out tyt.com/polls will always have the link in the description box and
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