George Santos news: New Santos ‘drag videos’ surface as most New Yorkers want

One Republican who is not hesitating to denounce newly-elected Congressman George Santos is Adam Kinzinger, the former congressman who declined to run for reelection last year after serving on the January 6 committee.

Mr Kinzinger responded to the congressman’s promise of a “surprise” for journalists staking out his office with a simple rebuke on Sunday evening.

The publisher of a Long Island newspaper that wrote the first exposé on George Santos said he suspected the congressman’s bad motivations during their first meeting, which took place years before his election win.

Grant Lally, the publisher of the North Shore Leader, thought he was a “completely non-serious candidate” after meeting him in 2020, during Mr Santos’ first run for office.

“He was weird,” Mr Lally told The Independent. “He acted strangely, he boasted, and at the same time he seemed to bask almost like a child in the attention he was getting.”

Richard Hall has the story from the congressman’s backyard:

Another video of George Santos has surfaced, with the 34-year-old appearing once again as “Kitara Ravache”, his drag identity.

According to the account PatriotTakes — run by Democratic operatives — the latest videos have begun trickling out in Brazilian media following the revelations.

Voters in George Santos’s home district tell The Independent that they are mobilising to find a way to force George Santos out of office — either at the ballot box, or through other means.

“We don’t have a game plan. I don’t think anyone does. The country has never seen an impostor in Congress before. So, what’s the path to boot him out?” one resident of the district told The Independent’s Richard Hall.

It can be difficult keeping up with the list of fictions that George Santos has been accused of telling, admitted telling, or merely been caught…