George Santos Confuses Reporter With Cryptic Message About Possibly Resigning

On Thursday, embattled Republican Congressman George Santos caused a lot of confusion, likely intentionally, by telling a reporter that he will resign if 142 people ask him to. He didn't say whether that meant 142 people at large, or 142 members of Congress, and no one knows where that strange number came from in the first place. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the latest bizarre comment from Santos.

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Yesterday, embattled Republican Congressman George Santos, issued a very weird and cryptic message to reporters who asked him about resigning. When he was asked to his face like, Hey, are you gonna resign? George Santos said this, if 142 people asked for me to resign, I'll resign. He said that while he was exiting his, his office, he said that to CNN's Kristin Wilson, 142 people, that's all I need, you know, get 142 people to ask me to resign and I'll resign. He didn't say 142 members of Congress, he just said 142 people. Okay, well, I've seen already a lot of people on Twitter call for that. I'll, I'll add it. George Santos resign. So, you know, however many that makes. Now, I'm sure we could get 142 people watching this to, to also say, George Santos should resign. But what baffled the reporters is why that number? Because 142 doesn't mean anything.

It's not even, okay, here's the thing. Two thirds of the house, g o p conference is 148. So if he wanted two thirds of Republicans in Congress to ask him to resign, he was off by six. So is that maybe what he meant? Nobody knows. Everybody's a little confused. Fox News suggested that, okay, well he won by 142,000 votes. So maybe the 142 is cuz he got 142,000 votes and maybe one person represents each thousand. Who knows? But nobody knows. But the bottom line is, we've already seen, you know, from social media, 142 people asked George Santos to resign. Uh, I, I, I don't think that, I don't think that he's actually keeping track, because if he were, he'd have to abide by his own statement and resign. But he wouldn't do that. 5 million people could come, 142 million could come out and tell him to resign, and he's not gonna resign.

He has made that clear. The worst part, of course, is that he now has the backing to not resign by house speaker Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy was asked on Wednesday of this week, like, are you gonna ask him to resign? And McCarthy's like, yeah, that's what elections are for. Those people get to decide. And they sent 'em to office. They sent a fraud to office. They sent something that didn't exist to office. Like you can't say that. Nope. The voters decided. The voters decided and voted for a person that George Santos was pretending to be. But all these calls for re resignation, again, they're moot. He's not gonna do it. It doesn't matter how many people come out. If he gets 142 or if he gets 10 times more than that, he's not going to

Resign. So all we can do is one hope that the voters in that district don't make the same mistake two years from now. But more importantly, let's hope that those campaign finance violations, which apparently keep adding up for Santos, are enough to get him prosecuted, which would then basically force the Republicans to expel him from Congress. Or better yet, let's hope he ends up in a Brazilian prison in the next couple months. Because at that point, I'm pretty sure the Republicans really would have no choice but to get rid of him.