George Santos admits to dressing up as woman, but denies he was a 'drag queen' - New York Post

Lying Long Island Rep. George Santos yet admitted to dressing up arsenic a pistillate successful the past— though helium denied helium was a “drag queen” portion talking to reporters astatine LaGuardia Airport connected Saturday.

“No, I was not a resistance queen successful Brazil, guys. I was young and I had amusive astatine a festival. Sue maine for having a life,” the embattled Republican congressman said, successful his archetypal nationalist effect since allegations that helium performed arsenic a resistance queen named Kitara emerged past week.

Santos, who is openly gay, had repeatedly tried to sprout down the reports of his cross-dressing past, which emerged past week after a photo from 2008 was posted online by Eula Rochard, a resistance queen successful Brazil and erstwhile person of Santos. 

A video besides surfaced of what appeared to beryllium the freshman rep clad successful a achromatic formal and sunglasses, boasting about performing arsenic a resistance queen astatine the Pride parade successful the Rio suburb of Niteroi successful 2005.

George Santos, allegedly successful resistance nether the sanction “Kitara Ravache.”

Santos and Rochard reportedly met erstwhile Rochard was already an established resistance queen successful a Brazilian metropolis adjacent to Rio de Janeiro. She said helium went by “Anthony” erstwhile she knew him and that helium “lied astir everything.”

She said Santos — who has besides gone by the sanction Anthony Devolder — was ne'er a nonrecreational resistance performer due to the fact that “he did not person what it takes.”

While Santos denied earlier this week that helium “performed arsenic a resistance queen,” helium has not denied that helium is the idiosyncratic successful the photos and videos.

“The astir caller obsession from the media claiming that I americium a resistance Queen oregon “performed” arsenic a resistance Queen is categorically false,” Santos tweeted connected Thursday. “The media continues to marque outrageous claims astir my beingness portion I americium moving to present results. I volition not beryllium distracted nor fazed by this.”

A screenshot from a 2005 video allegedly depicting Santos successful resistance nether the sanction “Kitara Ravache.”

A screenshot from a 2005 video allegedly depicting Santos successful resistance nether the sanction “Kitara Ravache.”

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When contacted by The Post astir the 2005 video, Santos responded successful a substance message: “Absolutely mendacious and conscionable different spot of nonsense from the pile-on effect I’m dealing with.”

Santos has been caught in a seemingly never-ending web of lies astir his assemblage education, employment history, ethnicity and different aspects of his life.

Among his much outrageous claims are that his parent died successful the Sept. 11 attacks and that his grandparents escaped Nazi persecution successful Europe during WWII. In reality, his grandparents and his parent were successful Brazil during some of those tragedies, according to migration records.

Santos ignored aggregate questions from reporters regarding the lies astir his household connected Saturday.

Santos landed backmost successful New York astatine LaGuardia airdrome connected Saturday, wherever helium concisely spoke with reporters astir his past.T.JACKSON / BACKGRID

He had conscionable returned from a sojourn to Washington D.C. wherever helium attended a gathering connected Friday night, CNN reported. He refused to accidental who helium met with, calling it “classified.”

Both Democrats and Republicans person called for Santos to resign. Regardless, the GOP House Steering Committee placed him connected 2 committees this week: Small Business and Science, Space and Technology.