Federal authorities arrested NY Misrepresentative George "Pinocchio" Santos this morning on 13 counts of financial fraud, including embezzlement. Six months after being elected to Congress, Santos is now in danger of losing his seat, whether the Republican Party likes it or not. Santos ran on a platform that only Joe Isuzu or Pecos Bill would've been proud of, and now, it's come back to haunt him.
Then again, this comes less than 24 hours after another serial liar was found liable for defamation and sexually assaulting an advice columnist nearly 30 years ago.
Donald Trump is so deep in denial, he needs a riverboat to get back to shore. In a sore loser rant on Truthless Social Tuesday, Trump continues to claim he doesn't know E. Jean Carroll, and continues to deny anything that happened at Burgdorf Goodman on that fateful day in 1996.
There are pictures that say otherwise. Trump is on the hook for $5 million in total damages, and of course, he'll grift his gullible base to raise the money because he's so cheap. Judge Lewis Kaplan should stipulate that the money has to come from Trump himself, not his supporters, to ensure the sentence is carried out. Trump, unsurprisingly, says he'll appeal, but that's a waste of time.
Trump has other legal issues pending in NY, Atlanta, and Washington, and if the results are the same in those cases, there go his chances of getting back to the White House next year. As far as his denying ever meeting E. Jean Carroll, there is that picture shown to him where he got Carroll confused with Marla Maples. The denials are for show, to grift the base. It bothers him that, like Harvey Weinstein and the late Jeffrey Epstein, he's being held accountable for things that he wouldn't have 30-40 years ago. The rules have changed, and the captains of industry are slow to change along with them, Trump included.
With Santos' arrest, I'd not be surprised if there are more dominoes falling in Congress, with the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert going under the investigative microscope in due course.
And, so, the implosion of the GOP begins.
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