George Santos Doubles Down And Says He Will NOT Be Pressured To Resign

George Santos remains defiant about resigning from office, and he re-confirmed this week that he will NOT be pressured into stepping down, even as he faces investigations from every available entity. Even his own colleagues in the GOP are growing tired of his scandals, and the Democrats are actively working on kicking him out. But Republicans still seem reluctant to go that far, and Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why.

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Embattled Republican representative George Santos doubled down again this week on his refusal to resign from office, even as he faces investigations from eight different bodies, both in the United States and out of the United States. That investigation down in Brazil, he says, oh, I'm not gonna do it. Here's what he put on Twitter this week. I will continue to work for New York's third district, and no amount of Twitter trolling will stop me. I am looking forward to getting what needs to be done done. It's interesting that you say that, George, because we also got reports this week that show that Republicans in the house, which is which, where you are, um, you've passed zero bills this year. None. Y So you say you're going to get the work done, done that needs to be done, uh, but you've also done nothing like literally nothing. Your constituents in that New York district are no better off today than they were before you came to office.

They have no extra benefits. You've done nothing to actually fight for them. And you have the audacity to say that you're not gonna step down because you have a duty to them. The man they voted for doesn't exist. It was a fabrication that you created, George or Anthony, whatever name you want to go by on any given day, I understand you don't wanna resign. I get that. Okay? I'm not stupid. I know the calls for you to resign are a waste of breath, but at the same time, you also have to understand that you're not gonna win your primary next year. Like forget not winning the election. That's already a given, but you're not even gonna win your primary.

And the longer you stay in office, the more damage you do to the Republican party. So I'm actually cool with it. Uh, you wanna stay there till the end of your term, do what you gotta do, because your presence makes Republicans look like idiots, which is what I don't understand about this whole thing. He can go out there and grandstand and say, I'm not resigning all he wants. And the Democrats, as I talked about, um, last week, they've put forward a resolution to expel him from Congress. Why didn't the Republicans do that? You know, you've got this guy that makes your entire party look like a bunch of liars and idiots and weirdos and wackos, and you're just sitting there saying, eh, whatever, whatever. We're fine with it. How, how, how, how can you do that? You know, he's gonna drag you down and cost you that seat. Eventually, you know that at least one of these eight investigations is gonna bear fruit, right? I mean, he may end up in a frigging prison in Brazil before the end of his term, and

You're still like, no, that's fine. How is that gonna look for the Republican party if a sitting member of Congress is arrested by international authorities extradited and sent to prison in a foreign country? You think the voters in New York's third district are gonna be like, well, I guess we'll just try a different Republican. No, they're gonna look at that and say, I'm not voting for a Republican ever again. Promise you. There will be people that say that you are flipping that district in a way that you could never, ever have imagined the longer he stays in your party. So at this point, it's honestly, it's not even George Santos fault anymore, that he's still in Congress. It's the rest of the Republicans. You see the problem, you know it's a problem. Other Republicans are confronting him like MIT Romney, and you're choosing to do nothing about it. You own this now, Republicans.