George Santos unwittingly trolls former colleague on Cameo after House expulsion: Latest
Disgraced former Congressman charges $200 for single video greeting
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Former Congressman George Santos is selling videos on Cameo, the site where celebrities offer short greetings for a fee.
Mr Santos was expelled from the House on Friday after more than a hundred Republicans joined almost all Democrats in voting to remove him from the chamber.
The 35-year-old describes himself as a “former congressional ‘Icon’” on the site, where he charges $200 per video. In one message, he told the buyer to “live life, laugh, and let the haters hate because they’re always gonna hate”.
Options to request include holiday messages, birthday wishes, some gossip, a pep talk, a roast, or some advice.
Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s social media team sent in a request for Mr Santos to do a pep talk for “Bobby from Jersey” in reference to New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez who stepped down as chair of the foreign relations committee after being indicted for allegedly taking bribes and acting as a foreign agent.
Mr Santos has joined only a handful of lawmakers ever ousted from their role, following a damning 56-page report from the House Ethics Committee which outlined “substantial evidence” that Mr Santos violated federal law.
‘Let the haters hate because they’re always gonna hate,’ Santos tells Cameo client
George Santos threatens ex-colleagues with ethics complaints after expulsion
Having said he would leave Congress “graciously” were he expelled, disgraced former congressman George Santos appears out for revenge against those lawmakers who supported his expulsion in Friday’s landslide vote.
After his exit from the Capitol on Friday afternoon there was silence from the ex-Republican congressman.
That is, until 11.35pm when he took to his personal account on X and wrote of his intention to file ethics complaints against four of his former colleagues. The Independent has contacted their offices for comment.
First in his firing line was fellow New York Republican Rep Nicole Malliotakis.
Mr Santos made allegations of insider trading against the Staten Island congresswoman while making insinuations about her personal life. He added that he would be filing an ethics complaint about her.
“Let’s talk about hypocrisy,” he wrote. “Can someone ask Nicole MalioStockTips when did she become a savant in stock trading? The signature bank trades she did REEKS of insider trading much like Paul Pelosi’s every trade!
“Nicole is in it for herself! Just look at her record and it speaks for itself. Nicole MalioStockTips is a dirty dishonorable swamp creature selling the American people down a river for her own benefit.”
In a further catty dig, he said “@NMalliotakis the difference between you and I is that I don’t live in denial, I’m a PROUD GAY man and I’m not afraid to say it.”
Ramaswamy slams expulsion of Santos, but calls him an ‘insane and pathological liar’
Vivek Ramaswamy came out swinging on X on Sunday night both against George Santos and the Members of Congress who voted for his expulsion.
“I’ll just say it - the expulsion of George Santos from Congress was wrong & sets an awful precedent for the future,” he wrote.
“The guy appears to be an insane & pathological liar, but the decision of whether he can serve belongs to the voters & whether he’s a criminal belongs to the courts,” he added.
“Mark my words: this opens a Pandora’s Box that will surely be exploited the next time MTG or Matt Gaetz or whoever else in either party pokes the uniparty bear,” he said.
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George Santos’ ‘Gatsby-esque’ journey is getting the Hollywood treatment
The stunning rise and fall of serial fabulist George Santos is already being made into a film.
HBO Films has obtained the rights to the new book The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos by Mark Chiusano, which was published on 28 November, according to Deadline.
A film based on the book is now in development and is described as “a forensic and darkly comic look at the crazy, unprecedented congressional race on Long Island that led to Santos being elected,” the outlet reported.
It tells the story of Mr Santos’s local Long Island race for Congress, his rise to fame and his swindling and lying to get there.
“It follows the Gatsby-esque journey of a man from nowhere who exploited the system, waged war on truth and swindled one of the wealthiest districts in the country to achieve his American Dream,” Deadline reported.
Frank Rich, who produced the political satire Veep and the Murdoch empire-inspired Succession series on HBO, is bringing the story of Mr Santos to the big screen as one of the executive producers.
Mike Makowsky, the writer and producer of Bad Education, wrote the film and is also an executive producer, while Mr Chiusano is a consulting producer.
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George Santos is selling $200 videos on Cameo
Expelled congressman George Santos is reportedly selling video messages on Cameo for $150 to $200.
The 35-year-old disgraced lawmaker - who became the sixth person in US history to be expelled from the congressional chamber - has been dipping his toes into new revenue streams. In a strange twist of events, he has turned to making videos for Cameo, a website where people commission celebrities and public figures to record personalised messages.
Santos wrote in his bio: “Former congressional ‘Icon’!” and added that he’s “The Expelled member of Congress from New York City”.
Initially, the former congressman was selling everything from birthday wishes to pep talks to roasts for a reported $75, before changing the price to $150 mere hours after launching his Cameo profile. As of now, the videos are being sold for $200, with the profile noting that there are “only 125 videos left”. He has linked the account in his bio on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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