The office of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., said that Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., lied about her giving him encouragement at the State of the Union address earlier this week.
, which found he was charged with writing bad checks to dog breeders in Pennsylvania in 2017. The charges were later dropped after Santos claimed that the check book had been stolen, although he held an adoption event days later in Staten Island. The lawyer who represented Santos at the time told Politico that she now doesn't believe his claims.
Earlier this week, Santos and Romney were seen having an exchange prior to Biden's State of the Union address, where Romney told Santos"You don't belong here" on the floor of the chamber. Santos claimed he insulted Romney afterward; helate Tuesday at the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, stating Romney would"NEVER be PRESIDENT!"
“He shouldn’t have been there,” Romney told reporters after the speech when asked exactly what he had said. “Look, he’s a sick puppy. He shouldn’t have been there. I don’t think he ought to be in Congress, and he certainly shouldn’t be in the aisle trying to shake the hand of the president of the United States and dignitaries coming in. It’s an embarrassment.”
“He says that he embellished his record. Look, embellishing is saying you get an A when you get an A-minus. Lying is saying you graduated from a college you didn’t even attend,” Romney said, adding that “they’re going to go through the process and hopefully get him out. If he had any shame at all, he wouldn’t be there.”
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans have taken a gentle hand with Santos so far, with the New York congressman serving as a steady vote for McCarthy in the days-long process of selecting a House speaker. Because of the party’s slim majority, McCarthy’s tenuous position leading the caucus would be weakened if Democrats won a special election to replace Santos following a vacancy.
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