George Santos Suffers Ultimate Humiliation As Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Jimmy Kimmel

This has not been a good week for disgraced former Republican Congressman George Santos. Not only did he agree to plead guilty before his fraud trial and could be facing up to 8 years in prison, but he also suffered a major legal setback when a judge tossed his lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel and the ABC network. Santos was suing Kimmel and the network for making him look like an idiot by sending in ridiculous requests to his Cameo account. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses Santos’ bad week.

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So the Democrats with their convention this week had a great week. The polls showed that the Democrats had a great week. Donald Trump, by extension, had a bad week, gave a couple of really bad speeches, went off on horrible tangents, so the Republicans didn't have a good week, but I'll tell you what, there is one Republican above all, even above Donald Trump, who may have had the worst possible week. And I know that's weird, like somebody actually had a worse week than Trump on the Republican side. But that person is none other than former Republican representative George Santos. Santos had two very horrible things happen to him this week. The first is that the lawsuit that he had filed against late Night Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and a BC and Disney, which owns a, b, C, uh, was tossed out by a judge. Here's what happened in that case, in case you haven't been following it.

Back in February, um, Santos sued Jimmy Kimmel because Kimmel, while Santos was on cameo, they kept sending him, you know, anonymously. They didn't say it was from the Kimmel Show, but they kept sending very weird requests to see if he would do it in videos. And he did. And then they would show these videos on Jimmy Kimmel live, and they would make fun of him for doing it. So Santos got mad and, uh, he decides to sue them for what exactly was it? 'cause it's weird. Uh, copyright infringement, uh, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, fraudulent inducement. And the judge finally, after this lawsuit was filed in February, the judge finally this week got around to being like, no, I, no, you're, I'm throwing this lawsuit out because this is absolutely ridiculous. Specifically, the judge said a reasonable observer would understand that Jimmy Kimmel showed the videos to comment on the willingness of Santos, a public figure who had recently been expelled from Congress for allegedly fraudulent activity, including enriching himself through a fraudulent contribution scheme to say absurd things for money. What's funny is that the judge didn't have to put in there why Santos had been expelled or even talk about the criminal charges against him, but she did, just to kind of point out to Santos that hey, um, you are being accused of fraudulently enriching yourself, okay? And that kind of seems like this lawsuit is just a way for you to try to enrich yourself through litigation and getting money from these very wealthy, uh, defendants here. And I'm not gonna let it go forward. You signed up for cameo, you

Took the requests as ridiculous as they were, you did 'em. So deal with it. And of course, the second horrible thing that immediately happened on the same day for George Santos, this one came out first. Few hours later, he pleads guilty to several of the charges against him in an apparent plea deal with prosecutors. He was set to go to trial in just a couple weeks, and now that trial is not going to happen. Um, he is pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a federal fraud case. So he is looking at a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison. However, US district Judge Joanna Seabert estimated a possible sentencing range between six and eight years when he returns to court for sentencing, which for some reason, the sentencing isn't even gonna take place till February 7th of next year.