A day after his expulsion from the House of Representatives, George Santos was seen tripping on hotel stairs and breaking his watch.
The former congressman was walking up the rain-soaked steps of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Washington, D.C. just before 10 p.m. Saturday when he slipped and smashed his watch as onlookers giggled.
It was the latest humiliation in an extraordinarily bad week for the disgraced New York representative.
Santos was voted out of office on Friday after being confronted about his extensive history of lying and facing multiple criminal charges, including laundering campaign funds and defrauding donors.
“Why would I want to stay here? “To hell with this place,” Santos told reporters outside the U.S. Capitol after the vote.
George Santos fell on the steps of the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, DC, the day after he was expelled from Congress
The former US representative tripped on the wet stairs and fell, shattering his watch, much to the amusement of onlookers
His former colleagues voted him out of Congress on Friday, with Republicans joining Democrats by a vote of 311 to 114
Over 100 Republicans joined Democrats in ousting the serial fabulist, a final tally of 311-114.
Santos stormed out of the House of Representatives minutes before the vote concluded, warning reporters that the House was “setting a new dangerous precedent for itself.”
His lies were laid out in great detail in a report by the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee. These include making family connections to the Holocaust, his mother’s death on 9/11, and recovering from a brain tumor.
Santos survived a vote to expel him last month after 31 Democrats and most Republicans voted to keep him. Many said they would rather wait for the ethics committee’s report.
A two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives is required to expel a sitting congressman.
There was great tension in the days and hours before the vote. After Rep. Max Miller called Santos a “crook,” Santos responded, “My colleague wants to come here and call me a crook. The same colleague who is accused of being a wife beater.”
He was referring to unproven claims that Miller slapped and grabbed his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham.
The former Long Island congressman will be immediately expelled from the House of Representatives and New York Governor Kathy Hochul will declare the seat vacant and call for a special election to fill his office.
“I stand ready to assume the solemn responsibility of filling the vacancy in New York’s 3rd District,” Hochul wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The people of Long Island deserve nothing less.”
Hochul is required to call a special election within 10 days of the disqualification vote. Both parties expect the election to take place sometime in February.
Santos survived expulsion last month after 31 Democrats and most Republicans voted to keep him. Many said they would rather wait for a report from the House Ethics Committee
The days leading up to the vote were fraught with tension – in one instance, Santos shot back at fellow Republican Max Miller, calling him a “wife beater.”
Santos is the sixth representative in history to be kicked out of the U.S. House of Representatives
Santos has pleaded not guilty in federal court to 23 counts, including identity theft, charging his donors’ credit cards without their consent and submitting false campaign reports.
He is not expected to go on trial until September next year.
According to the House Ethics Committee, Santos “attempted to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his candidacy for the House of Representatives to achieve his personal financial gain.”
The damning report accuses him of diverting campaign funds to pay for Botox treatments, designer bags, OnlyFans purchases and cash withdrawals at a casino.
The Republican used $3,000 in campaign funds for an Airbnb in the Hamptons, while another transfer of several thousand dollars to his company was spent on luxury goods and rent from Ferragamo.
Santos is also accused of inflating six personal loans to his campaign by claiming they were worth $80,000 when they were only $3,500.
The other lies he told encompass almost every aspect of his life.
According to the Ethics Commission, Santos diverted campaign funds to finance designer bags, porn and an Airbnb in the Hamptons
He is also accused of inflating six personal loans for his campaign by claiming they were worth $80,000 when they were only $3,500
“My grandfather was born in Kiev, left the country in the late ’20s and emigrated to Belgium, where he met my grandmother and then started a family,” Santos told Fox Digital in February.
He claimed his maternal surname was “Zabrovsky” and explained: “We do not have the Ukrainian surname, for many people who are descendants of World War II refugees or Holocaust survivors, it is many names.” Name of survival changed.’
There have reportedly been no successful attempts to trace Jewish or Ukrainian ancestry in his family tree.
In 2020, Santos claimed that he was raised by “a white Caucasian mother, an immigrant from Belgium.” However, according to her obituary, his mother, Fatima Devolder, was born in Brazil.
In a July 2021 social media post, Santos wrote, “9/11 took my mother’s life” after attacking a user with the alias “9/11 was a victimless crime.”
In fact, his mother died in December 2016, more than 15 years after the attack.
Santos confirmed the actual date in a December 2021 tweet that said, “December 23rd of this year marks five years since I lost my best friend and mentor.” Mom, you will forever be in my heart life.’
A New York Times report described Santos’ mother as a housekeeper, although his campaign website described his mother as “the first female executive of a major financial institution.”
The former congressman has pleaded not guilty in federal court to 23 charges, including identity theft and filing false campaign reports
A few hours after the vote, he announced on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that he would file complaints against several of his former colleagues through the House Ethics Committee
Hours after his expulsion from Congress, Santos went on a rampage on social media, announcing his plan to use the House Ethics Committee to file complaints against several of his former colleagues.
The riot began shortly before midnight on Friday. In the first post, Santos questioned Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ stock trading and appeared to suggest that she used inside information.
“Before joining the committee, the congresswoman did not have an active trading habit or a large holding in stocks,” he wrote. “The question is, what information is she trading on?”
He clarified his stance in another post, comparing her to Paul Pelosi and declaring, “The banking transactions she does reek of insider trading!”
A subsequent post accused Rep. Mike Lawler of “questionable campaign finance violations.”
“The worrying questions are; Is Mr. Lawler engaging in laundering money from his campaign into his company and then into his own pocket? “I will leave it to the Office of Congressional Ethics to judge,” Santos wrote.
Another accusation was made against Long Island freshman Nick LaLota, who said he was studying law while he was supposed to be working on the Board of Elections.
“The questionable actions are? “Did Rep. Lalota fail to show up for his taxpayer-funded job while he was in school, and if so, he may have stolen public funds from the taxpayers of New York,” Santos wrote.
He concluded: “I will let the Office of Congressional Ethics decide the validity of this serious allegation made in its local media.”
It remains to be seen whether Santos will file the reports tomorrow.