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Rep. George Santos (R-NY), in a slip-of-the-tongue second throughout a Newsmax interview Thursday night time, referred to himself as “simple-minded” earlier than criticizing Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), with whom he exchanged terse phrases previous to the State of the Union deal with Tuesday.
Santos’ time in Congress, he stated, is about “having any person like me come and signify different people who find themselves identical to me — simple-minded people who come from completely nothing and have a voice in Congress.” Romney’s remark that he doesn’t belong in Congress, he then claimed, isn’t new to him.
Later within the interview, the freshman congressman circled again to Romney, accusing the previous presidential candidate of getting “prejudice towards minorit[ies].”
Romney “thinks he’s above all of it and is…on an almighty white horse making an attempt to speak to us down on morality,” Santos advised Greg Kelly.
“The fact is he’s all the time had prejudice in direction of minorit[ies],” continued Santos, who lied about being Jewish.
“He had it in his 2012 election and that's the reason he didn’t grow to be president when he completely had the chance to grow to be president,” he claimed. “And that’s why I used to be very clear after I stated on Twitter, ‘You'll by no means be president since you would by no means signify all People.’”
Through the prolonged interview, Santos additionally reiterated his declare that he as soon as had a mind tumor—after initially balking on the query. As well as, Santos made a degree of praising Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). In line with him, whereas within the Home chambers she had stated “one thing to the impact of, ‘Cling in there, buddy.’”
On account of the litany of his fabrications, the Nassau County district lawyer is investigating potential monetary wrongdoing, Santos relinquished his committee assignments final month, and he's additionally anticipated to face a Home ethics probe.