GOP Can't Decide on What to Do With Rep. George Santos' Tenure - The Daily Beast

Two House Republicans offered vastly antithetic takes connected the aforesaid TV amusement Sunday erstwhile it came to habitual liar Rep. George Santos, suggesting the fraud whitethorn not beryllium going anyplace immoderate clip soon.

On Face the Nation, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) took the astir absurd outlook, claiming that the federation should disregard Santos’ wholly fabricated biography successful airy of his colleagues’ ain penchant for lying.

"Look, there’s a batch of frauds successful Congress,” Gonzales said. “I mean, George Santos is the slightest of this country’s worries.”

Santos’ soiled laundry has been belatedly found, hung, and fleshed retired into a standalone wardrobe successful the weeks since his triumph for New York’s 3rd legislature district. The topline is that helium has told a slew of mostly-admitted lies astir everything from his taste individuality and enactment past to his acquisition degrees and household background. But that’s not all. As The Daily Beast has reported, helium was reasonably precocious married to a pistillate contempt claiming to person agelong been openly gay, has had a bizarre surviving concern with his sister slash roommate facing eviction, whitethorn person broken campaign-finance laws, and more.

“We person a batch of things to interest about. Step 1 is- is getting this rules bundle done,” Gonzales added erstwhile pressed to corroborate whether oregon not helium believed Santos should instrumentality around.

At slightest immoderate different conservatives weren’t truthful keen.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) alluded to a increasing hypocrisy wrong the enactment arsenic it struggles to fig retired what to bash with Santos amid a slim, 4 spot majority.

“It’s precise hard to enactment with anyone who cannot beryllium trusted,” Mace said, besides connected Face the Nation. “It’s precise wide his full resume and beingness was manufactured until a mates days ago, erstwhile helium yet changed his website.”

“It is simply a problem,” Mace added. “If we accidental we can’t spot the Left erstwhile they are telling the truth, however tin we spot our own? Americans privation transparency, and the 1 acquisition I’ve learned successful DC: if you privation a person you tin trust, get a dog.”