Is GOP's George Santos eyeing Congress exit for a second act in Hollywood?
October 25, 2023
If Washington fails, there's always a chance to take a shot at Tinsel Town.
A banking customer with a pedigree in the national security sector, took snaps of Rep. George Santos (R-NY) lounging in a Congressional Credit Union branch and supposedly daydreaming about one day being cast in one particular indie director's next picture.
"I walked into their office and noticed two people sitting in the waiting area," said Ian Larsen, a global strategist noting he kept an account at the bank.
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Larsen claimed to have overheard Santos chewing Hollywood fat with another person in the bank.
"One was telling the other he wants that person to be cast in an upcoming Kevin Smith movie," according to the tweet. "Weird topic for DC, so I looked to see who was speaking….."
Kevin Smith is the indie darling director who shook up the industry with his shoestring budget hit "Clerks."
Larsen soon realized one of the thespian hopefuls was the embattled Long Island politician.
"It was George Santos. He was just lounging around the credit union in the middle of the day, as though he had nothing better to do," the thread reads.
Larsen opined: "And apparently he moonlights as Kevin Smith’s casting agent, I guess?"
And he also noticed that Santos was in no hurry to get back to his office as the House was in the throes of trying to select the next speaker to fill McCarthy's unceremonious ouster.
"He was still there when I left, just milling about and chatting with the tellers," Larsen added. "You'd think he'd be meeting with his lawyers, but that's where he was at 2:00 on a Monday afternoon."
Raw Story reached out to Santos' camp and so far has not heard back. Calls and emails to Kevin Smith's reps were not immediately returned.
Minutes after contacting his reps, Santos tweeted out a dig at Larsen, but didn't deny the substance of him longing for career on the silver screen.
"You see Ian… If you were good at gossiping your little pathetic trip to the bank would make sense," Santos tweeted. "But here we are…🥱"
Santos is currently fighting for his freedom after a federal indictment came down over the summer.
Prosecutors allege Santos usurped people’s identities, altered donor's’ credit card amounts without seeking their authorization, and submitted bogus campaign reports that listed ghost loans and contributions that were either doctored or stolen.
Santos has pleaded not guilty.
"Nothing has changed,” the defiant Santos said earlier this month. “I think I’ve made it clear that I will fight this to prove my innocence. So yeah, I’m pretty much denying every last bit of charges.”
Santos also told reporters why he couldn't possibly be guilty of what he described as the "bullsh-t" charge of defrauding his donors.