'How can they demand Santos resign when Trump is still there?' former Republican Representative Joe Walsh asked on Sunday.
"How can a party [that] has a con man and a grifter—who was the former president and now he's running for president again, he's the leader of the Republican Party, and he's a con man and a grifter—how can they demand Santos resign when Trump is still there?" Walsh asked host Katie Phang., including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have been hesitant to call for action against Santos.
Former President Donald Trump, inset, Representative George Santos, a New York Republican. Former Republican Joe Walsh on Sunday decried both men as the same sort of"grifter and con artist.""This is something that's being handled internally," Scalise said during a press conference."Obviously, there were concerns about what we had heard, and so we're going to have to sit down and talk to him about it.
On Thursday, McCarthy said that, while he has"a long way to go to earn trust," Santos is still"part of the Republican conference."
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