Serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) raised eyebrows when he likened himself to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
Santos, showing on conservative communicate display host Mike Crispi’s podcast, railed towards the grievance he has won since his congressional victory remaining yr when it emerged he’d fabricated more than one tales about his existence. Santos additionally faces federal fraud and cash laundering fees, which he denies.
“They arrive for me, I’m going proper again for them as a result of I believe for a long way too lengthy they’ve gotten away with going alongside to get alongside. So no, it’s now not going to stick that manner anymore,” Santos ranted. “I’m gonna name them out. You need to name me a liar. I’ll name you a sellout.”
Santos then reprised his spat with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who throughout President Joe Biden’s State of the Union deal with in February advised Santos he didn’t belong within the chamber, and by no means in a entrance row place.
“I imply Mitt Romney, the person is going to the State of the Union of the US dressed in a Ukraine lapel pin, tells me, a Latino homosexual guy, that I shouldn’t take a seat within the entrance and that I must be within the again,” Santos scoffed.
“Smartly, bet what? Rosa Parks wouldn’t take a seat within the again and neither am I going to take a seat within the again,” he added. “That’s simply the truth of the way it works.”
Critics couldn’t imagine Santos’ gall in likening himself to Parks: