Speaker McCarthy is not calling on Santos to resign

[jgo]

Source: New York Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has made no move to penalize or marginalize Representative George Santos even in the face of mounting allegations of misconduct and lies by the first-term New York Republican, has signaled that Mr. Santos will be allowed to continue to serve in Congress even after being indicted on federal charges.

“I’ll look at the charges,” Mr. McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday, before an indictment charging Mr. Santos with wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and lying to Congress was unsealed. “If a person is indicted, they’re not on committees. They have the right to vote, but they have to go to trial.”

Mr. McCarthy said his calculation could change if Mr. Santos were found guilty, in line with other top Republicans in the House who said Wednesday that they were focused instead on rooting out unemployment fraud during the pandemic.

“He was already removed from all his committees,” Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana and majority leader, said during a morning news conference. “In America, there is a presumption of innocence but they’re serious charges. He’s going to have to go through the legal process.”


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/nyregion/mccarthy-george-santos-congress.html

[dchill]

1. A vote is a vote.

[groundloop]

12. Yep, for the GQP at least.......

Santos is charged with felonies and will keep his seat, yet Al Franken was forced to resign for showing bad taste while taking part in a stupid prank many years ago.

[Turbineguy]

2. He's innocent until proven guilty.

Besides, he's a thief and a liar. He fits right in.

[underpants]

4. Agreed.

[TeamProg]

3. Mind blowing ethics on display. nt

[Botany]

5. McCarthy knows that DeVolder aka Santos is a Russian paid for chaos agent and just doesn't care.

Just like he knew Trump was "Russian dirty" in 2016 and told people to keep it a
secret.

[mn9driver]

6. I don't think he can vote from a jail cell.

He is a flight risk. If he belonged to a sane political party they would expel him so his district could vote for a replacement. As it is, they will delay even if he can’t vote, so that his seat doesn’t flip. The GOP has become the party of open, unapologetic criminality.

[sarcasmo]

7. The GOP doesn't resign or admit, they deny and ignore.

[onecaliberal]

8. He supports rapists.

[Traildogbob]

9. Indictments are a badge

Of honor. So is saying fuck you to subpoena’s and especially the AR 15 lapel pin. That’s like a varsity letter jacket in high school. The RWDS patches are like championship patches on that letter jacket. For now they keep the swastika’s and SS patches on the inside of the jacket. Those will be outside the jackets when trump gets assigned the presidency. I guess Gym has to wear all his honor emblems on a shirt.

[ashredux]

10. Simple, he needs the vote.

[Javaman]

11. and he won't. he "controls" the majority by a very narrow margin.

he needs the grifters vote

[infullview]

13. The hieght of hypocracy

"Mr. McCarthy said his calculation could change if Mr. Santos were found guilty, in line with other top Republicans in the House who said Wednesday that they were focused instead on rooting out unemployment fraud during the pandemic. "

Santos was charged with unemployment fraud

[PortTack]

14. ☝️☝️☝️☝️

Mccarthy is just another lying gqp POS!

[Wonder Why]

15. No justification to ask Santos to resign.

After all, he's only a criminal, cheat, liar, sleazeball. It's not like he has done anything to bring dishonor to the House of Reprehensibles.

I think he is just a poor misunderstood normal Repugnican like the rest of them.