纽约-众议员乔治·桑托斯(George Santos)表示，在众议院道德委员会(House Ethics Committee)发表一份措辞严厉的报告后，他预计将被驱逐出国会，该报告发现了这位纽约共和党人违法的大量证据。
在周五的一次挑衅性演讲中，桑托斯坚持说他“不会去任何地方”，他的演讲充满了对国会同事的嘲讽和猥亵。但他承认，至少他作为国会议员的时光可能很快就要结束了。
“我知道当这个驱逐决议被通过时，我会被驱逐，”他周五晚上在X Spaces的一次谈话中说。“我已经反复计算过了，看起来并不是很好。”
一周前，众议院道德委员会的共和党主席迈克尔·盖斯特(Michael Guest)提出了一项决议，一旦桑托斯的身体从感恩节休息。
虽然桑托斯在两次驱逐投票中幸存下来，但他的许多以前反对这一努力的同事现在表示支持，并引用了该委员会对桑托斯涉嫌的广泛不当行为进行的长达一个月的调查结果。
报告发现，桑托斯将竞选资金用于个人目的，如在奢侈品零售商和成人内容网站上购物，然后导致竞选团队提交虚假或不完整的报告。
调查人员写道，“众议员桑托斯试图欺诈性地利用他的众议院候选人资格的每一个方面来谋取个人经济利益。”他们指出，他不配合报告，并一再“回避”提供信息的直截了当的要求。
周五，桑托斯表示，他不想谈论该报告的具体内容，他声称该报告是“诽谤”和“旨在迫使我离开我的座位”他说，对他行为的任何辩护都可能在联邦检察官提起的正在进行的刑事案件中对他不利。
相反，桑托斯在三个小时的直播中用沉思的语气描绘了他从共和党“it girl”到“the Mary Magdalene of the美国国会。”他猛烈抨击他的国会同事，指责他们行为不当——比如醉酒投票——他说这比他做过的任何事情都糟糕。
“他们都表现得像是在带着白色尖帽子的象牙塔里，不可触及，”他说。"在美国国会的队伍中，有很多重罪犯，有各种各样的可耻背景的人."
他说，他决定不寻求连任，不是因为外部压力，而是因为他对同事们“纯粹的傲慢”感到失望。
“这些人需要明白，当我说该做的时候，当我想做的时候，而不是当他们想做的时候，事情就已经做了，”他补充说。“这就是我们的现状。”
Santos says he expects to be kicked out of Congress
NEW YORK --Rep. George Santos said he expects to be expelled from Congress following a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence of lawbreaking by the New York Republican.
In a defiant speech Friday sprinkled with taunts and obscenities aimed at his congressional colleagues, Santos insisted he was “not going anywhere.” But he acknowledged that his time as a member of Congress, at least, may soon be coming to an end.
“I know I’m going to get expelled when this expulsion resolution goes to the floor,” he said Friday night during a conversation on X Spaces. “I’ve done the math over and over, and it doesn’t look really good.”
The comments came one week after the Republican chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Michael Guest, introduced a resolution to expel Santos once the body returns fromThanksgivingbreak.
While Santos has survived two expulsion votes, many of his colleagues who formerly opposed the effort now say they support it, citing the findings of the committee’s monthslong investigation into a wide range of alleged misconduct by Santos.
The report found Santos used campaign funds for personal purposes, such as purchases at luxury retailers and adult content websites, then caused the campaign to file false or incomplete reports.
“Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit,” investigators wrote. They noted that he did not cooperate with the report and repeatedly “evaded” straightforward requests for information.
On Friday, Santos said he did not want to address the specifics of the report, which he claimed were “slanderous” and “designed to force me out of my seat.” Any defense of his conduct, he said, could be used against him in the ongoing criminal case brought by federal prosecutors.
Instead, Santos struck a contemplative tone during the three-hour livestream, tracing his trajectory from Republican “it girl” to “the Mary Magdalene of theUnited States Congress.” And he lashed out at his congressional colleagues, accusing them of misconduct – such as voting while drunk – that he said was far worse than anything he’d done.
“They all act like they’re in ivory towers with white pointy hats and they’re untouchable,” he said. “Within the ranks of United States Congress there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of shystie backgrounds.”
His decision not to seek reelection, he said, was not because of external pressure, but due to his frustration with the “sheer arrogance” of his colleagues.
“These people need to understand it’s done when I say it’s done, when I want it to be done, not when they want it to be done,” he added. “That’s kind of where we are there.”
