Interview With Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA) About George Santos And January 6th Footage
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Happy to be here.
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I mean, look, nine months ago, we already knew that he was a liar, a fraud, and completely essentially created his entire life story he's been elected to Congress and he had actually already admitted to fraud and to a conviction in Brazil. And so he nine months ago I believe was ready to be expelled from Congress. He is a complete, complete fraudster.
Of course back then Republicans blocked that resolution that we put forward, and instead they moved this whole case to the Ethics Commission. And so the committee, the commission looked at the work. They looked at tons and tons of witness statements and they finally put out this report. I mean, the report is incredibly damning. It confirms everything that we already knew.
He essentially created an enormous slush fund using all of his campaign donors to essentially fund his private life, his clothing, all sorts of crazy shopping trips across the country. And now he's got to be held accountable for what he's done. We are going to expel George Santos. Finally his time is up.
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I mean, you can't -- you know, you can't make this stuff up. I mean, it's totally crazy what George Santos has done. I mean, essentially spend his campaign donors and their hard-earned money on pornography and on shopping trips to Ferragamo is crazy. And the fact that Republicans have been trying to protect him for these last nine months. I'm glad that finally we now have so many House Republicans that are stepping up and they're finally agreeing that it's time for him to go.
And so we know the Democrats are going to be united with this expulsion coming up. We're going to file expulsion papers the first day we're back. Republicans are going to do the same thing. That's great. The more people that file, the better. And I think every day more and more Republicans are announcing their intention of how they're going to vote. And it's time for him to go and to restore some integrity to the House of Representatives.
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I mean, what else does he have to do? What else does George Santos have to do to prove to us that he's unfit to be in the U.S. Congress? I mean, to essentially steal, cheat, lie, lie under oath, falsify all his documents, his campaign documents, his oath of office, which he's defiled. So I think a lot of Republicans are going to have a wake-up call over the course of the next week and a half or so.
When this comes forward, I think you're going to see a wave of Republican support this expulsion. I will be surprised and honestly I'll be stunned if the speaker doesn't vote to expel George Santos. He has done everything possible to prove that he is worthy of this vote. He also remember has to face a court and he has 23 additional counts, criminal counts. It's not just what's going to happen here in Congress, but he's going to have to face a conviction.
I mean, the future is not looking great for him and he now has to not only face his community, but he's going to have to face all the folks back home who voted for essentially a falsification of a person.
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Well, what I know is that the speaker, along with the House majority, don't believe that there was any type of insurrection or attack that happened on January 6th. And it's shameful they continue to politicize what was an attack on our government and our nation's Capitol. They want to release more information. They want to release more info. Fine. Release information that can create a broader picture, but we've all seen the video.
We've all seen the tapes. We've all seen the reporting done by you and so many other news organizations. We know that there was a violent attack on the Capitol egged on by Donald Trump and now enabled by this Republican majority and the speaker, by the way, as part of his leadership and the reason why he's in office is because of his defense of Donald Trump. His defense of Donald Trump even though Donald Trump created this enormous, I believe, attack on our nation's Capitol.
And so I think that the speaker has an agenda. He clearly has had one since he's been defending Donald Trump. And so we'll see what he ends up releasing. I believe -- I'm sure anything he releases will be politicized. Let's just be honest about what happened that day. There was an attack on our Capitol. Insurrectionists need to be held accountable for what they did.
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Absolutely. And that's why we don't know what he's going to release. I mean, you know, he says he's going to release footage. We don't know what that means. What we've been saying is anything that gets released should be vetted by National Security officials, certainly Capitol Police. And just to release footage without any type of security measures in place I think is dangerous and irresponsible.
So we'll see. I mean, we all want obviously more information out. I don't mind to have more footage out there. I just hope it was done in a way that's responsible.
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Thank you.
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