Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) point blank demanded Rep. George Santos (R-NY) resign and apologize ahead of the return of Congress.
"Why not do the right thing and resign," Garcia told him, apparently the first time the two lawmakers exchanged words on Twitter Spaces. "I think you should be expelled."
Santos refused to comply.
"I haven't been found guilty of anything," he said. "If I resign I admit to everything in that report."
He later talked about how he thinks he's being transparent while so many other colleagues have lied and lied and then resign in the end.
"I owned up right away," Santos said. "It was right away. I apologized. I wish most people would do that."
"Some of our colleagues do all kinds of shady s---. They deny and deny it and then they resign," he added.
The two lawmakers continued jousting until Garcia signed off with one last distinction between the congressional issues that Santos is facing versus the federal charges that have been brought.
"George is going to have face 23 different counts, indictments," Garcia said. "He is going to have to face judges and juries."
"In the U.S. Congress — we have a different standard; our standard is based on going off of the facts we know of...I think you should make amends."
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Santos has been reeling and confirmed that he won't seek another term following a scathing 56-page report by the House Ethics Committee who claim to have found Santos "sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit."
The report spawned another effort to expel him from the House.
The House could vote on his expulsion once it returns from the Thanksgiving holiday.
Santos is already flailing after the DOJ filed a 23-count superseding indictment accusing him of running “a fraudulent scheme to steal the personal identity and financial information of contributors to his campaign."
The pol wilted at one point during a soliloquy that when lawmakers return, he will be given the heave-ho.
"I fully expect to be expelled when Congress sends the Ethics Committee resolution," he said on Friday. He then claimed that he would go down in history as the first lawmaker to be ousted from Washington without "proving I committed wrongdoing."
