Of course, there will be a movie. Or a series. The actors will fight to interpret George Santos. We salute the polymorphism of the selected artist. He will be predicted rewards. But it is still too early to consider this epic on screen. The fate of the elected official of New York (3e district) remains suspended above the void in real life – an adjective that does not match his trajectory – the one that led him to the spans of the House of Representatives in November 2022.
For now, the speaker Republican, Kevin McCarthy, anxious to preserve his narrow majority, did not call for the resignation of Mr. Santos, claiming to stick to the choice of the voters. Elected President of the Chamber in the fifteenth round of voting, at the beginning of January, he confesses to having “always had questions” on the course of the latter, who will have to win the ” confidence “ of his peers. Will the interested party have the time?
Never before in this chamber had a man lied so much about almost everything. Never before had a candidate built such a pathetic and vile scaffolding of nonsense about his origins, his family, his private life, his professional career, his commitments. A construction solid enough to victoriously go through the ordeal of an electoral campaign, after a first failure in 2020. But it now makes him a prey for journalists, hunted down in the corridors of the Capitol, mocked by the hosts of television, infuriating his own colleagues.
Almost every day, an American media tears a page from the Santos fiction, unearths a damning witness, publishes a photo or a document. The head spins, dizziness wins. We no longer know who to rely on: the penal code, the ethics manual of an elected official or the sofa of an excellent psychoanalyst, broken into mythomania.
Post-election euphoria
On November 19, 2022, George Santos takes the stage set up in a luxury hotel in Las Vegas (Nevada). He is one of the second-tier speakers at the meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, an influential organization of Republican Jews. Freshly elected in the midterm elections, eleven days earlier, he speaks before a video intervention by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the arrival of the new Republican star, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis . He has five minutes.
“Shabbat shalom everyone! » The newly elected talks about his immigrant parents. “We are no strangers to persecution,” he notes, evoking the fate of his grandfather, who fled Ukraine in the 1920s before taking refuge in Belgium, then in Brazil. George Santos promises that in Congress he will fight against anti-Semitism, defend Israel, be intransigent on Iran. “I am living the American dream”, then said the 34-year-old man, with a greedy smile. This is his last moment of post-election euphoria.
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