Republican Rep. George Santos faces a crush of investigations, but he is rewriting his story in real time — delivering speeches, dashing through the U.S. Capitol, business as usual.
arrives on the House floor most days to deliver short speeches — celebrating women-owned small businesses, a special high school in his district or raising concern about various countries in crises.
"I was elected by the people to come here to represent them, and I do that every day," Santos told The Associated Press in a brief interview off the House floor. At stake is not just "truthiness," as comedian Stephen Colbert once called falsehoods in public life, but broader questions over the expectation of truth-telling from political leadership.
D'Esposito has introduced a pair of bills that would prevent elected officials from profiting off wrongdoing and said he is working with others to ensure Santos is not "the face of our party. We’ve made it very clear. He’s not our brand. He’s not part of us."
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