George Santos Reports NEGATIVE Campaign Donations Following Scandals

First quarter campaign filings are coming in, and it looks like embattled Republican Representative George Santos is in dire straits, financially speaking. After having to refund so many donations, Santos reported that he ended up with NEGATIVE donations in the first three months of this year. That isn't going to bode well for him as he continues with his time in Congress, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Campaign finance disclosures for the first quarter of this year are slowly starting to trickle in as candidates get them filed. And one person who was pretty easily able to go ahead and submit their report, because there's not much money on it, was George Santos, the embattled Republican from New York, who is still under investigation from I believe, six entities. He has, of course, worked out a deal with Brazilian authorities to where if he admits what he did, they're not gonna charge him. So he doesn't have to worry about spending time in a Brazilian prison. But George Santo's campaign finance information is interesting because the guy actually reported negative contributions for the first quarter due to the fact that he had to pay out more money in refunds to donors than he brought in. Here it is from the Hill Santo's campaign, received $5,333 in individual contributions, but spent $8,353 in refunds to individual donors.

So he had to pay out $3,000 more than he brought in. It also makes a note of the fact that even though he is got, what, like $750,000 in loans, he didn't report any loan payments during the first three months of this year. So either he's not paying his debts or Oopsy, he forgot to report it. Now, I could sit here for the next 20 minutes laughing at the guy for having to pay out more money than he brought in because people wanted their money back for sending it to a fraud. But instead, I wanna know who the $5,333 came from. Who are the people in this country over the last three months? Because George Santo's problems, like with the revelations about all of his lies started in December. Okay? So for this entire year, that entire quarter, January, February, and March, everybody knew that the guy was a serial liar.

So who the hell are these people who thought, but you know what? I know he is lied about everything and you know, the grandparents of the Holocaust and his mom on nine 11 and all of that, but you know what? I'm still gonna send him a check. I don't know. It's just something about like, who are those people? Because apparently they exist, they're real, and who are they? Please identify yourselves because I, I would love to have a chat with you and just figure out, like you explained to me what was going through your head when you watched all of this news about George Santos when you saw all of the investigations erupt, and you're like, but I'm still gonna send him money. So,

Um, if, if you are one of those people who gave him money, please reach out to me. Again, I, we can talk off the record. I just want to understand better what's going through your head, because that just seems ludicrous to me. Here's the other problem I have with George Santos. News about George Santos has pretty much disappeared. And the problem I have with that is not that, hey, we're not finding new scandals. Like, look, he's got plenty to deal with. He's got plenty of investigations, but George Santos has disappeared from the headlines. Granted, there's other news out there that's a little more important at the time, but it worries me because voters forgive and forget. The longer away something was, the more voters are able to rationalize it in their brains. So in 2024, they might be looking at this and saying like, yeah, he did all those things, but clearly he learned his lesson.

He, he went on and he, he sponsored legislation that I actually like, said, you know what? He's not a bad guy. People will think that there are people, obviously probably the same people who gave him money that will start to think that folks, that's the problem. And if you think I'm wrong about that, let me remind you that the party that supported an insurrection against the United States of America on January 6th, 2021 still won back the House of Representatives a year and a half later. So I'm not wrong, I warned y'all like through that whole time, like voters will eventually forget and forgive and it happened. So I have no reason to think it couldn't also happen with George Santos, which is why we kind of need to keep that on our radars that this man is a fraud.