Sen. John Fetterman commissioned expelled Rep. George Santos to unwittingly make a video on the celebrity video message platform Cameo telling Sen. Bob Menendez – whom Fetterman has called on to resign over charges he acted as a foreign agent to Egypt – to “stay strong.”
“I thought my ethically-challenged colleague @BobMenendezNJ could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems. So, I approached a seasoned expert on the matter to give ‘Bobby from Jersey’ some advice,” Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, tweeted Monday.
In the video, Santos, the New York Republican who last week became only the sixth lawmaker to be expelled from Congress after a damning ethics report, says, “Hey, Bobby! I don’t think I need to tell you, but these people that want to make you get in trouble and want to kick you out and make you run away, you make them put up or shut up!”
Santos adds, “You stand your ground, sir, and don’t get bogged down by all the haters out there. Stay strong. Merry Christmas!”
Some Senate Democrats have called for Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, to resign after he and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, were indicted in September on corruption-related offenses. They are accused of accepting “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes” in exchange for the senator’s influence and have pleaded not guilty.
Later Monday, Santos responded to Fetterman’s tweet, saying he didn’t realize “Bobby” was Menendez.
“I love this! I wish I knew the Bobby in question! LOL,” Santos wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Days after the House voted 311 to 114 to expel Santos, he joined the celebrity video message platform, where he is charging $200 per video. “Former Congressional ‘Icon’!” his bio says, describing him as “The Expelled member of Congress from New York City.”
…
Read the full article here
Leave a Reply