Former New York Republican Rep. George Santos was axed from Congress in a historic vote that marked the only instance where a member of Congress was booted who had not been convicted of a crime as part of the Confederacy.
The vote happened on Friday, with nearly 100 Republicans voting to remove the former Congressman, and we may now know the reason the vote was so massive.
Just before the members voted on the motion to remove Santos, another Republican member of Congress, Rep. Max Miller, hit him with a new allegation.
“Colleagues – Late yesterday on the floor, I alluded to a personal impact of Rep. Santos’s conduct,” he said in an email.
“Earlier this year I learned that the Santos campaign had charged my personal credit card – and the personal card of my Mother – for contribution amounts that exceeded FEC limits,” he said in the email. “Neither my Mother nor I approved these charges or were aware of them. We have spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees in the resulting follow-up.”
“I’ve seen a list of roughly 400 other people to whom the Santos campaign allegedly did this,” the representative said, before suggesting that other House members may have been robbed by Santos.
“I believe some other members of this conference might have had the same experience,” he said.
He and Santos had a vicious argument during a House session on Thursday.
“I myself have been a victim of George Santos and as well as other members of Congress in terms of defrauding through public donations and received an ethics complaint from the FEC, which I had to spend tens of thousands to defend myself,” Rep. Miller said.
“You are a crook!” he said to Santos before apologizing, “I know I should direct my comments to the chair. I yield back.”
Santos spoke next and was furious as he took aim at his colleague.
“I’d like to move to have the gentleman from Ohio’s words stricken from the record, please,” he said.
“Mr. Speaker, the hypocrisy. As I mentioned, my colleague wants to come up here. Call me a crook. Same colleague who’s accused of being a woman beater. Are we really going to ignore the facts that we all have pasts and we all have the media coming out against us on a daily basis?” he said.
Miller, who used to work in the Trump White House, was accused of slapping his girlfriend at the time, who also served as former President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham in 2020.
