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George Santos is hitting again at his GOP colleagues, calling Ohio Rep. Max Miller a ‘girl beater’ forward of a vote that’s more likely to mark the unceremonious finish for Congress’ most well-known liar.
‘You sir are a criminal,’ Miller, R-Ohio, stated on the Home flooring.
‘My colleague desires to come back up right here, name me a criminal,’ Santos stated. ‘The identical colleague who’s accused of being a lady beater. Are we actually going to disregard the information that all of us have pasts?’
He was referencing claims made by Miller’s ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham. The pair dated whereas Miller was an aide to former President Donald Trump and Grisham was former First Woman Melania’s spokeswoman. She briefly labored as Trump’s press secretary as effectively.
Sources near Grisham have claimed that Miller slapped her after she accused him of dishonest on her.
The pair had been believed to have been collectively for 18 months and even obtained a French bulldog named Gus, earlier than the scenario is believed to have turned bitter.
Miller was courting Grisham in April 2020 when she confronted him in his Washington DC apartment, accusing him of dishonest on her, sources advised Politico.
Three unnamed sources cited by Politico declare he pushed her in opposition to a wall, slapped her and threw a dog-toy tennis ball at her.
The report additionally claims he tried to seize her within the elevator when she was making an attempt to go away.
He has strenuously denied it, Grisham didn’t remark and the incident just isn’t thought to have been reported to the police.
‘You sir are a criminal,’ Miller, R-Ohio, stated on the Home flooring
‘My colleague desires to come back up right here, name me a criminal,’ Santos stated. ‘The identical colleague who’s accused of being a lady beater. Are we actually going to disregard the information that all of us have pasts?’
Grisham claims in her new e-book, I am going to Take Your Questions Now, that Trump requested her if her boyfriend was ‘good in mattress’. She did not establish who he was referring to, however Miller was her important different on the time
However in line with Politico, it’s one in all a sequence of incidents that increase questions on Miller’s previous.
‘Miller pushed her. He slapped her. She fled. The temperatures that night dipped into the 40s, and Grisham left with no coat, solely her purse,’ the report reads.
He denied it however the unnamed sources insisted it was true.
Grisham has additionally accused Miller of taking the French bulldog he obtained her as a gift and holding it as his personal after the breakup.
‘It occurred. It was violent and it was onerous for her,’ stated one of many sources – described as being somebody ‘very shut’ to Grisham, however not within the White Home,
In the meantime Santos has remained defiant til the very finish, refusing to resign forward of his personal expulsion vote. ‘If I go away, they win,’ he reasoned.
The 35-year-old freshman member referred to as his expulsion and the report ‘theater for the American individuals on the expense of the American individuals as a result of no actual work’s getting performed.’
Santos survived a vote to expel him earlier this month as a result of 31 Democrats and most Republicans voted to maintain him, a lot of them saying they’d fairly wait till an Ethics Committee report got here out detailing his wrongdoings.
That report has now been made public, discovering Santos used marketing campaign cash and donations to fund a lavish way of life, engaged in fraud, filed false election experiences and ‘willfully’ violated ethics.
Santos, R-N.Y.
It is the fifth time Congress has moved to expel its members. It is the primary time a member has been expelled with out conviction or supporting the Confederacy throughout Civil Warfare occasions.
Individually, Santos has already pleaded not responsible to 23 expenses in federal court docket, together with identification theft, charging his donors’ bank cards with out their approval and submitting false marketing campaign experiences.
He’s not anticipated to face a trial till subsequent September.
The Ethics Committee stated two expenses of $1,500 and one $1,400 on the congressman’s marketing campaign debit card, which weren’t submitted to the FEC, had been listed as ‘Botox’.
The report notes one other $20,000 switch from the marketing campaign to Santos’ firm Devolder, whose account had a destructive stability on the time. From there, cash was used to make $6,000 value of purchases at Ferragamo, withdraw $800 in money at a on line casino, withdraw one other $1,000 in money close to Santos’ condo, and to pay his hire.
The report discovered Santos additionally obtained repayments to his private account for cash he had by no means loaned to the marketing campaign.
He inflated over six private loans he made to the marketing campaign – which in actuality totaled $3,500 however he had claimed would complete as a lot as $80,000.
In asserting he wouldn’t run once more however would stay in Congress by means of the top of his time period, Santos posted on X: ‘My household deserves higher than to be below the gun from the press on a regular basis.’
