George Santos Suggests His Voters Actually Enjoy Being Lied To

During a conversation with CNN, indicted Republican Congressman George Santos claimed that his constituents don't really seem to care about the barrage of lies that he told during his election last year. He suggested that no one voted for him because of those lies, but that's a claim that he can't prove, either. The truth is that his voters voted for a man that does not exist, and now the fraud is facing a stiff prison sentence if he's convicted. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Indicted Republican representative George Santos, seems to be laboring under the assumption that his voters, his constituents in his district actually don't care if he lies his face off to them. In an interview with CNN that aired this past weekend, George Santos actually suggested that, Hey, my lies didn't matter. Nobody was voting for me because of the lies I was telling. Instead he says, no, they voted for me because I'd be a fighter for the people in my district, even though almost a year in you've literally done nothing for them. But here is what Santos had to say. Nobody elected me because I played volleyball or not. Nobody elected me because I graduated college or not. People elected me because I said I'd come here to fight the swamp. I'd come here to lower inflation, create more jobs, make life more affordable, and the commitment to America, look, could I have won the general election last time nobody said I could.

Elections are tricky. There's no predetermined outcome. Yeah, see, here's the thing though, bud. Um, if those claims that you made didn't matter, then why'd you make 'em? If you didn't think it was gonna make you look good in the eyes of those voters, then why did you tell the lies? You see, like you can't have it both ways. You can't just make up this entire false narrative about your entire life and then be like, ah, nobody even cared about it. If nobody cared about it, you wouldn't have done it. So you're contradicting yourself with these new claims just based on your own history. And yes, believe it or not, things like that do matter. Candidates histories absolutely matter. Why do you think all the people running for office, no matter what office, talk about all the things they've done in their life and those who've never held office try to make their lives seem more interesting to the voters by saying things like, Hey, I was, I was an award-winning volleyball player until my knee got shattered, right?

Like Santos claimed, Hey, my mom died on nine 11. No, she didn't. Hey, my grandparents were part of the Holocaust. No, they weren't. Those are lies that were created to not only relate to people who may have had similar things happen to them, but also to create sympathy for yourself. Like, how am I gonna vote against this guy? His family was killed in the Holocaust. His mom died in nine 11. He has known tragedy his whole life. I, you know, I feel bad for the guy. That's what happens. You psychologically manipulated the voters in your district, and now you have the audacity to go out there and tell 'em like, ah, nobody cared about the lies. Bull crap. The people in your district voted for a human being that doesn't actually exist because you created a new persona on paper, and that is what you sold to them. That is what they voted for. But that person isn't real. So don't sit there and act like, oh, it doesn't matter if I lie to them. They kinda like it,

Right? Bull. Furthermore, as we all know, Santos last week, um, survived an attempt to expel him from Congress. You had 30 Democrats that voted to protect him, and they did come out, and I will say, obviously there were much more Republicans who voted to save him than Democrats. But I am disappointed in the Democrats. I think it's ridiculous. I think their excuse for voting to save him was absolutely pathetic. Like, oh, well, we don't wanna set that kind of precedent as if Republicans care about precedent. Oh, well, he hasn't been convicted of anything. It doesn't matter. I mean, like, you don't even have to consider the crimes that he allegedly committed, allegedly.