Former Congressman Anthony D'Esposito caught in a pickle. It was reported that he hired a mistress and fianc s daughter to work as a special assistant in his district office, eventually bumping her salary to $3,800 a month. The woman, Devin Foss, collected about $2,000 a month for a part-time job in the same district office.
00:04:32.740Anthony was handed the seat through, you know, whichever way you want to look at this.
00:04:37.080But it's so rich looking at him say this now, knowing that at that very exact moment, he was defrauding the American people, violating nepotism laws, hiring and paying for his guma.
00:04:50.020The inflation situation has gotten so bad.
00:05:03.620Inflation has become so bad in the economy and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's America is in such deep crisis that even your mistresses now have to do two jobs.
00:05:12.520So this is the thing that's so alarming to me.
00:05:17.040He was one of the biggest mudslingers at you.
00:05:19.700I mean, it was like you did something.
00:05:21.960It was like you kicked his dog, George.
00:05:23.580And I mean, granted, you went there and you wanted to get stuff done.
00:05:26.740And, you know, I've worked for a congressman before.
00:05:29.460If you go there to get things done, you have a target on your back right away because you disrupted the status quo.
00:05:35.040But from day one, it's a fact that Anthony D'Esposito was paying his as a special assistant, his fiancee's daughter, thirty eight hundred dollars a month.
00:05:44.920I worked in Capitol Hill when I worked in Capitol Hill.
00:05:47.520There wasn't full time employees barely making that.
00:05:50.640Now, you had to rent a place in Washington, D.C., making thirty eight hundred dollars a month, maybe even less than some offices, because not every office pays the same.
00:05:58.580Now, this is his daughter, his fiancee's daughter, who's living probably at home with her mother, making thirty eight hundred dollars a month.
00:06:05.040Now, the Goumad was making two thousand dollars a month.
00:06:09.280I think it's the New York Post reported each working agreement ended abruptly in July of twenty three, coinciding with D'Esposito's fiancee, Cynthia Lark, learning about his relationship with the mistress.
00:06:20.900I mean, how does this even come about?
00:06:22.900Why would D'Esposito put himself in that place in the first place where he knew he's got his Goumad on the side?
00:06:30.560And he knows he's violating nepotism laws by hiring these two people to come after you.
00:06:35.500That's the thing that's like it just it doesn't resonate in my mind, George.
00:06:40.920This is these these guys are the poster child for hypocrisy.
00:06:44.360The Nassau County, the Suffolk County Republican Party is on Long Island, New York, are arguably the most corrupt GOP establishments and machines in America.
00:06:54.020There is a reason we have had several federal investigations into former elected officials all across Long Island.
00:07:01.600It's because they are absolutely reprehensible.
00:07:08.320I thought I fell in astray and got a little too involved and allowed my better judgment to be skewed by the sheer insanity of the dirt and grime.
00:07:18.760You want to say Washington, D.C. is a swamp.
00:07:21.280The real deep swamp runs through Long Island's GOP circles.
00:07:26.140And, you know, George, that's the case everywhere I'm at in Staten Island, New York.
00:07:29.360It's the I guess the Richmond County GOP.
00:07:52.220So if you want to get in, I mean, you really you got to have a lot of money or you got to have someone willing to back your campaign with a lot of money.
00:08:02.640You knocked on doors, which a lot of people don't do anymore.
00:08:05.380D'Esposito, I can guarantee you, wasn't doing half the work you were doing.
00:08:08.240People don't understand what it's like working for a member of Congress or someone working running for Congress.
00:08:13.720You hit thousands and thousands and thousands of peoples of doors.
00:08:17.020You've got to go out there and you've got to ask people to chip in anywhere from twenty dollars to twenty seven hundred dollars to your campaign.
00:08:46.320They've been outlined over the last 10 months.
00:08:49.980And the facts are that Mr. Santos actually admitted to those lies and deceptions.
00:08:56.400He references the concern of this body and the fact that we, quote, may be losing trust.
00:09:06.960I want to let everyone in on a stark reminder.
00:09:11.180Coming from New York, New Yorkers don't agree on much of anything.
00:09:15.600But seventy eight percent of the individuals who live in the third congressional district do not want George Santos as their representative.
00:09:27.440So it seems to me that trust has already been lost.
00:09:33.640They had to do a poll, George, to figure out that they didn't want it anymore.
00:09:38.280This guy's got what I'll call John George Santos arrangement syndrome.
00:09:46.100But the thing is, here's the most disingenuous part about that statement.
00:09:50.100He was in October making the argument, pardon me, in November, making the argument for a poll that was done in the second week of January by Newsday of all institutions, which we know have a very skewed liberal leaning.
00:10:08.060Our internal polling did not show a 78 percent rejection.
00:10:12.320Our internal polling didn't show a 50 percent rate rejection.
00:10:16.220And again, like what I try to tell people is very simple.
00:10:20.740They took whatever they could and they put it together and stuck.
00:10:29.940OK, John, in the ethics complaint, it said that I had sexually assaulted a potential staffer.
00:10:37.160In the investigation, I was exonerated of that because there was no proof, nor it was unsubstantiated slander.
00:10:46.040Words in the investigation, in the expulsion resolution that Michael Guest, the chairman of the ethics committee, he said that I had engaged in sexual harassment.
00:10:58.460It is so backwards, it is so upside down and back ass words that these people can't even tell Adam from Bob and Bill from John because they don't know what they're doing.
00:11:11.760The American people is not their priority.
00:11:14.360The ethics committee has become a absolute smear committee and weaponized by whoever wants to weaponize it against whoever they deem politically expedient.
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00:14:06.860We're back. We're talking with George Santos.
00:14:08.980George, real quick, I just want to ask you where you're at right now in your case as you fight against the DOJ and the charges against you.
00:14:17.480If you want to just give the audience an update.
00:14:19.260Well, John, look, after a very long, long year and a half, I think it's fair to say that we've come to a conclusion almost.
00:14:27.940You know, the fight's over. I've taken responsibility for the things I've done.
00:14:36.960There's not a day that goes by that I don't live in remorse and regret for what happened in the past and what I've allowed myself to morally escape my own values in the name of ambition.
00:14:49.880And I think it's very important to make sure that the American people know you can fight, but you have to realize when it's your time to just throw the towel in.
00:14:59.120And now I'm just moving forward with the process. And in February, I have a court date and, you know, it's in God's hands at this point.
00:15:06.740Yeah. You know, I just and a federal judge that's overlooking the case.
00:15:10.580Right. Well, we've seen what these people do with January 6th or so.
00:15:14.680I don't you don't have one of those guys, you know, you know, at the end of the day, I've been given a I've been given a very fair process.
00:15:21.580I can sit here and be an absolute a-hole and say I haven't, but I have been given a very fair process.
00:15:32.700Yeah. You know, George, we're humans. I'd say 100 percent of us are imperfect.
00:15:36.640We've all made mistakes in our lives. The end of the day, you know, you own up and you own it and and you face the consequences.
00:15:42.920But, you know, like I said in the last segment, for someone like Anthony D'Esposito to be sitting there judging you while he was doing just as bad, if not worse, at the same damn time while he's judging you.
00:15:55.600You know, the other day, I think only God can judge us. That means something.
00:16:00.660But for that idiot to be sitting there, that rhino idiot to be sitting there and, you know, I said something before we started here.
00:16:06.760You could usually tell when somebody did something wrong, Republican, because they usually start to get very close to Donald Trump.
00:16:13.560You know, they he's a big rhino, big rhino, doesn't like Trump, can't stand Trump.
00:16:18.040But in the last few weeks, George, when you say, you know, D'Esposito has been this MAGA boy.
00:16:24.460Well, when you get a call from somebody from The New York Times and they land you and I know what those calls are like and I know what those emails look like.
00:16:31.920So when you're getting a call in an email with bullet point questions and the email scrolls on and on and on, all of a sudden you have a come to Jesus moment and you become MAGA.
00:16:44.020It's amazing. Here's the deal. I've been consistent. I've supported Donald Trump since the moment he came down those escalators.
00:16:50.420I have my MAGA accolades enough to prove and back me as a true America first individual.
00:16:56.060My voting record in the House of Representatives, 96.3 percent, pardon me, 96.33 percent.
00:17:04.900If you compare that to my former colleagues, Anthony D'Esposito, Nick Lallota, Andrew Garbarino, Mike Lawler, Mark Molinaro, Nicole Maliatakis.
00:17:14.100I mean, it's you would think we live in two different planets on how we vote.
00:19:52.800And I think Trump himself has admitted that and said it at the rally in the Nassau County Coliseum that he will be addressing and raising the threshold and the caps.
00:20:04.680I agree with you on 100 percent, George.
00:20:06.680But when you have the largest tax cuts put in front of you in American history, right, and you're sitting there sitting back on it.
00:21:24.780When we were looking for another speaker, and Scalise had failed, and Emmer had failed, and Jim, I'm sorry, Jim Jordan failed, and then Emmer failed.
00:21:33.660I was every single time one of them failed, I would walk up to Mike Johnson and say, Mike, you need to run.
00:21:42.760I look at Jim Jordan and Steve Calias as my biggest mentors and friends, and they're like big brothers to me.
00:21:46.780You're in a blame for this whole mess, George?
00:21:49.460I will say I take full responsibility for the fact that I egged him on long enough that the day he decided to announce, I got a text from him at 6 o'clock in the morning saying, George, I've prayed, and I wanted to thank you for encouraging me to run.
00:22:17.580This is not the Mike Johnson I supported for speaker, and I was so proud to introduce to thousands of people on X, on Spaces, currently night after night talking and talking him up and introducing him to the American people.
00:22:29.980This Mike Johnson is an absolute surrender and a letdown for me and for many Americans.
00:22:34.520I want to take one more quick break here, George, and I want to continue this conversation about Mike Johnson because it doesn't make sense what he's doing.
00:22:41.740It really – there's no rhyme or reason to it on why he's doing it.
00:22:46.520This latest government shutdown coming up in just, I think, six days now, and he looks like he's ready to cave to the Democrats once again.
00:24:36.180He says we're not going to push through a Christmas omnibus, which is BS because all of Nancy Pelosi's stuff is still going to be in this bill.
00:24:44.620The only thing these people care about, George, is getting through a defense bill so that the Warhawks and the warmongers get their money
00:25:39.180And I wrote a very extensive explanatory opinion on the CR and what CRs are and how they are.
00:25:45.040They are a absolute divorce from the oath to office that every single one of those representatives takes every time they're reelected by upholding the Constitution and their obligation to passing 12 spending bills.
00:25:58.520They have not done that in over a decade, and it is an absolute departure from what our frameworks and our founding fathers had envisioned for this great constitutional republic to be about.
00:26:11.020So in reality, CRs, ladies and gentlemen, are nothing more than you being sold out to the lobbyists in Washington, D.C. and the establishment, all in exchange for laundered taxpayer dollars to go to these different companies and then trickle right back as campaign contributions for Democrats and Republicans alike.
00:26:29.080That's why I'm proud to say I took zero dollars from lobbyists.
00:26:46.780You got to start holding us accountable.
00:26:48.660And he's I mean, he's right, because nobody holds these these people accountable at at the ballot box, because like we spoke about before, George is a boys club and there's a girls club and you cannot get in it.
00:27:01.240And people don't understand, like when Tim says things like that, where you hold them accountable.
00:27:05.480OK, well, how do you hold them accountable?
00:27:07.620How do you primary someone who's got a million dollars in the bank, a million dollar war chest, and then they're going to come after you more with with with the local GOP's out on Long Island, out in Richmond County?
00:27:17.480There's there's really no holding them accountable.
00:27:20.820And these Republicans always say you're a bad person if you primary somebody because you make them spend all their money.
00:27:26.200Well, I was I was part of a primary, George, in twenty nineteen here out here in Staten Island, where we made the opposition spend a million dollars.
00:27:33.920And you know what? He spent a million dollars in the primary and he lost in the general in November to a Democrat because we opened the voters eyes up to what happened.
00:27:41.900So you had a Democrat for one term and now we have another Republican back.
00:28:16.640Look, Dan Donovan, for all of his flaws, really gave us a bad name when he started with the we can't live on one hundred seventy four thousand dollars.
00:29:20.760The last people in the world who deserve a raise, George, are politicians.
00:29:25.780I mean, these people are the scum of the scum, the lowest forms of life.
00:29:29.780I'm going to give you an example of one.
00:29:31.420Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than five hundred thousand dollars worth of Visa stock just weeks before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa.
00:30:43.440Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi have the most consequential pillow talk in America.
00:30:47.760Think about that pillow talk at night. Right.
00:30:50.420John, you might see more pillow talk than Mike Lindell, some would say.
00:30:53.800I mean, I would say Mike Lindell should give her some pillows because that's a whole lot of talking and that's a lot of pressure on your neck.
00:31:00.040But think about it this way. While every American lays down at night to have pillow talk about, honey, I'm worried about the bills at the end of the month,
00:31:08.220the electricity costs or they're sacrificing the quality of their lives so that so that they can just get by.
00:31:14.260Nancy Pelosi is sleeping and pardon me, is having pillow talk about what bills and what's happening in government,
00:31:21.680that how can it affect their finances?
00:31:23.480And that's why you see this grotesque, visible insider trading habits that are very hard to escape the allegations that Nancy Pelosi has faced now for many years
00:31:32.820because of the chips acts and chip buys and Raytheon and Boeing and every single other military industrial complex type company that has benefited from the legislation of war.
00:31:46.300So Nancy Pelosi has the most consequential and expensive pillow talk in America while we're all having pillow talk about how are we going to keep the lights on and the roof over our heads?
00:31:55.600You're absolutely. Since to put in perspective, since 2020, she's done just under one hundred million dollars in trades, George, one hundred million dollars.
00:32:03.240That's money that like ninety nine percent of Americans will never see in their lifetime or ten lifetimes added up.
00:32:09.980It's truly disgusting. I have an idea if these people in Congress don't want to ban trading.
00:32:16.420Right. Because it's clearly this should be an up and down vote, as you guys call it there.
00:32:21.980That should be. If it hit the floor, it would pass. If it hit the floor, it would pass.
00:32:26.000The problem is the people that can put it on the floor are in on it so they won't put it on the floor.
00:32:31.920That's the problem. You need to look at leadership on both sides of the aisle and hold them accountable.
00:32:36.540George, I mean, that's exactly what we're doing here today. I have a problem with Republicans just as much as Democrats, which is the top of our conversation to start this.
00:32:43.940But if they don't want to ban trading, I have a I have another idea.
00:32:47.360We'll see if this can hit the floor. George, you guys who are in Congress or anyone in Congress, you have 30 days.
00:32:54.500You have to report your trades within 30 days.
00:32:56.560Anyone who's a stock trader or a hedge fund guy knows that after about 10 minutes, stock information is no good anymore.
00:33:03.160Right. Once it hits the market, everyone's paraded the Bloomberg terminal things because you get an extra 10 seconds of trading time.
00:33:09.400That's how crucial timing is in the trading market.
00:33:12.940Why don't we make it so that if you want to make a trade, you have to report it before you make the trade and then go make the trade.
00:33:18.700I think it'll level the playing field for the American people, wouldn't you say?
00:33:22.780Well, I think it's fair. The problem is, is that they have 30 days regardless, even if they were to report it prior to.
00:33:28.620Right. Because of the processing and the bureaucracy, the reality is there's no way to curbtail it.
00:33:33.540And in plain put, simple English, if Americans don't get to play to don't get to play the same game of insider trading, neither should politicians.
00:33:42.740The great example of that was Nicole Malio stock tips when she did a very lucky, suspicious trade on New York community bank stocks versus signature on the eve of the collapse of signature bank.
00:33:55.540By the way, after the Ways and Means Committee had been officially notified that they would be shutting doors arbitrarily and out of the blue the very next day.
00:34:04.980And guess who goes and suspiciously buys all these stocks on New York community?
00:34:46.000You will only attract and you will only recruit the most talented, patriotic people who actually want to serve this country.
00:34:54.320Because ever since it's been turned into a career, it has become abysmal and the country has been sold out for their own personal interests while Americans are suffering.
00:35:02.800That is why we have a 30, what, 35, 36 trillion dollar debt right now and counting because politicians expected somebody like me to vote on a suspension of the debt ceiling last year.
00:40:20.160The reality is when even a Monsignor is caught up in an embroiled political scandal like this and corruption scandal in the Brooklyn diocese, I think that's very telling.
00:40:30.500The reality is Mayor Adams is going to have a very, very long road ahead of him when it comes to these investigations for everything that we're seeing reported allegations.
00:40:40.360And as I speak with sources on the ground, the reality is, is the mayor is soon to be caught up and have his own charges presented against him if everything pans out to be the way it seems to be.
00:40:51.140Because there's no way you're telling the American people that his entire financial operation gets indicted, but he doesn't know anything about it.
00:40:59.640And wait until they start pulling and looking at the contracts for the real estate developers in New York City, which I know he's very cozy with because I know a lot of the players and Mayor Adams bragged about a lot of these charter school licenses and a lot of these big buildings and garages and hotel conversions into temporary homeless shelters.
00:41:23.660And I think his time is is I think his goose is about to be just well done pretty soon.
00:41:29.640Hey, you know, the thing, George, people don't realize is when you're surrounding this man and you're looking at and the DOJ comes to you and says, well, you know, it's 10 years for this, 10 years for that, 20 for this, 30 for that.
00:41:41.880And before you know it, you're looking at 80 years.
00:41:43.620But if you want a rat, maybe we can get you like community service.
00:41:48.700You know, damn well, those guys are going to start squealing and squealing and squealing because they don't know.
00:41:53.920Oh, they'll sing like yellow canaries.