CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – A 23-count superseding indictment was filed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging George Anthony Devolder Santos, better known as “George Santos,” the United States Representative for the Third District of New York, with one count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, two counts of wire fraud, two counts of making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), two counts of falsifying records submitted to obstruct the FEC, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of access device fraud.
Criminals know stealing is best done in the shadows. Stupid criminals get in the public eye by taking a public office where everyone is looking at them and what they are doing or did.
Trump and Santos are stupid criminals.
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I agree. I think his original plan was to run, lose, and then claim that the election was rigged against him. Then, he’d have spent 4 years grifting. He’d also have been paid to appear on right wing media to talk about how President Hillary was bungling X and how he would handle X so much better. (All without giving any details on how he’d handle X.)
Basically, what he’s done since leaving office in 2021.
Of course, once he was in office, he got addicted to the power and now he wants that back. Plus, he sees it as the only way to avoid prison. So his 2024 Presidential bid is 100% serious.
Well put. The irony is he could have just straightened up his act once in office and got away with his old crimes, but he is incapable of that.
The compounding factor is he’s a pootin puppet so once in office, it was a deluge of new crimes to sow chaos and please the master.
I think you’re dead on with this
My not-totally-serious-but-maybe theory is that they initially told Trump they were just shooting a mockumentary about him running for President and they only told him it was all real the night he won.
Yeah, Stone and Manafort were getting away with murder-by-proxy for decades, pretty much everyone gets away with taking totally-not-bribes, that stuff is just how the system works. Now we’re getting people too stupid to get away with it even with the table tilted in their favor to within an inch of being totally vertical.
lack of accountability draws in all the people comitting crimes. It corrupts the government the same ways it corrupts the catholic church.
craven, clinical need for attention kinda guys