Oct 16, 2023
George Santos Parades A Baby Around, ERUPTS At Activist
George Santos lost his cool at a pro-Palestinian protester in the Longworth House Office Building. Oh, he also had a mystery baby.
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Forest that you are in
this building stepping up.
You are a terrorist sympathizer.
You are human,
sir [NOISE] Defendant
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terrorists are a coward [NOISE]
>> Speaker 2: The congressional circus
continues, this time with freshman
Republican Congressman George Santos
[00:00:36]
putting on quite a performance over
the weekend after an activist asked
the congressman about
the ongoing Israel Gaza war.
Now, before we show you more of that
interaction, if you wanna call it that,
let's discuss what led up to it,
let's give you some more context.
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So the altercation took place in
the Longworth House office building where
House Republicans were gathered to
pick their nominee for speaker and
which is, of course, open to the public.
So activists are free
to enter that building.
Now, a group of activists
did enter that building.
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They attended the meeting and
questioned various Republican members
about the retaliatory attacks
by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Now, the activists first approached
former Speaker Kevin McCarthy,
who said that he actually supported
Hamas being killed before walking
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away with his staff, and passed by
George Santos, who was holding a baby.
It's kind of unclear whose baby it is,
although there's a little bit of clarity.
Now, George Santos,
in a tweet that was posted,
George Santos just left Tim Burchette's
office with a baby in his arms.
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When asked if it was his baby,
he said, not yet.
Unclear what that means.
He is a lunatic.
Now, for some unknown reason,
Santos also wanted Kevin McCarthy
to acknowledge the baby.
He said, one of my staffers baby.
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Look at this baby, Mr Speaker,
Santos said to McCarthy, who then briefly
acknowledged the baby before moving on and
ducking into another GOP member's office.
Now, after McCarthy skirted that
situation as quickly as possible,
that's when the activist
decided to ask some
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questions to George Santos
about what's happening in Gaza.
And he said this at first,
George Santos did.
Do not record the baby,
do not record this baby, Santos said.
The activists walked away, and
things seemed to dissipate.
And the activists turned the corner
back down where more members would be.
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But then Santos returned talking to the
activists, who were surrounded by police.
And this is when things
got super heated and
Santos engaged in theater
you're about to experience.
>> Speaker 1: And the next time he tries
to accost me with a child in my hand,
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I want him out of you.
>> Speaker 1: What happened exactly?
>> Speaker 1: He's an animal.
I am holding a child.
He is a terrorist.
Mr Santos, who the gentleman
back there is a terrorist
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sympathizer that has no
business in this building.
What is happening in Israel is abhorrent.
What is happening to the people
of Israel should not be defended.
Nobody defending Hamas has any
business in this building.
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Whether you're elected,
whether you're a civilian.
It is a disgrace that we allow people
to parade that kind of thought in here.
>> Speaker 2: So he just called a person
of Jewish descent a terrorist sympathizer.
So one of the protesters who
identified himself as Shabd Singh,
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an American Jew who
lives in Washington DC,
said he wanted to question the lawmakers
about what they were doing to stop
the ongoing murder of civilians,
not Hamas, civilians in the Gaza Strip.
It's unclear if he was the one
specifically confronting Santos in that
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whole situation, but he was later detained
by Capitol Police after this whole ordeal.
He said, quote, my ancestors,
entire branches of my family were killed
in the Holocaust, and I'm here to say you
cannot weaponize Jewish paint to continue
the mass murder of civilians in Gaza.
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So, Cenk, look, to me, I don't believe
anything that comes out of Santos's mouth.
He is not to be trusted.
He's a well known notorious liar, right?
So to me, that know,
it was all a performance to me.
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I don't think that he
cares about any of this.
And he's trying to deflect and
distract from what a terrible,
hideous person he is, so much so
that members of his own party
are trying to expel him from Congress.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know if
I'm allowed to say drama queen, but
that was some serious drama right there.
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And it's all fake,
everything about him is fake.
What are you carrying around a baby for?
What a weirdo?
And then he brings it to Kevin McCarthy
and demands that McCarthy look at a baby.
Who goes around demanding
that people look at babies?
I mean, other than the human
baby that is George Santos.
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So we're all forced to look at this
man-child and his silly histrionics.
So then he pretends to be offended that
somebody asked him a question while he's
carrying around a baby.
But, brother, they're in there asking
questions to Congress people, and
unfortunately, you're one of them.
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They didn't know or
anticipate that you would be weirdly
carrying a baby around in Congress.
And all the pretend outrage, and he called
that guy a terrorist sympathizer and
terrorist scum.
When the guy said it on tape, I heard it.
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You could hear it in
the beginning of the tape.
I'm a descendant of Holocaust survivors.
What are you talking about, right?
So apparently, if you say,
please don't kill innocent civilians,
you're terrorist scum, I think that he
might need to work on his logic, but
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he needs to work on
everything in his life.
But, guys, to me the bigger story here
is this is politics in the year 2023.
It's just nothing but bread and circus.
So we've got a bunch of clowns running
around in Congress, the notorious liars.
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Everybody knows they're liars,
bunch of con men.
The leader of one of the parties is
probably the biggest con man in American
history.
It's all shows,
all fake fights, all theater.
No one's proposing a single thing
that helps you guys like, wow,
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the Republicans are a mess.
So what were they?
They don't have a single bill that
would help the average American.
They're not even trying.
The only thing that they proposed in the
beginning that was substantive was cut our
IRS agents because they're going to audit
our donors, the wealthiest Americans.
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We can't have it.
So if you're among the richest,
the Republicans will protect you.
Otherwise they'll throw babies around and
juggle them or whatever and
then pretend to be upset and call
Jewish people terrorists sympathizers.
So, yeah, Santos is a psychologically
damaged person, but so
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are a lot of folks in that building.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and
he doesn't have a great track record
with Jewish Americans, to say the least.
So maybe be a little more careful about
the accusations that you throw around
against other Jewish Americans.
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In fact, he has a history about
lying when it comes to Jewish
individuals about his heritage.
Let's get a little refresher on that.
>> Speaker 4: Look, as I always joke,
I'm Jewish [LAUGH]
>> Speaker 5: Throughout his campaign,
Republican Congressman elect George Santos
would refer to himself as half Jewish or
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a Latino Jew, often telling his
grandparents' story how he says
they survived the Holocaust
as Ukrainian Jewish refugees.
Records from the Holocaust Museum and the
International Center on Nazi Persecution,
which keeps records on Jewish refugees,
show no mention of Santos's grandparents.
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One genealogist who helped research
Santos's family tree at CNN's request,
said there's no sign of Jewish and or
Ukrainian heritage and no indication
of name changes along the way.
>> Speaker 4: I'm so proud to be able
to keep our family going forward and
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showing that not only did we survive, but
now I'm able to go advocate and fight for
other Jewish people.
>> Speaker 2: See what I mean
when I say he's a notorious liar?
Lies about his family's history,
about his heritage,
just a complete pathological, insane liar.
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And the performance he put on in
regard to his treatment of those
activists calling them
terrorist sympathizers,
there might be a political reason why
he engaged in that performance as well.
So his district does have
a sizable Jewish population.
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Now it's been redistricted, but
prior to the redistricting, it was about
20% of the population in New York's third
district composed of Jewish Americans.
They did not support him in the election.
Very low turnout for
George Santos among Jewish voters.
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So I definitely applaud them for making
the right decision and voting against him.
But anyway jank,
any final thoughts on that?
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like his
district is now about 13% Jewish,
which is still a pretty high number.
And maybe he's doing it for that.
Maybe he's doing it for other reasons
in his weird anti Semitic mind.
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Maybe he thinks, the donors are Jewish and
he's going to get some sort of support or
something like that.
I don't know what goes through
his psychotic mind, but
he's going to every extreme that he can.
He talks about the deep state,
he had the assault weapon pin.
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He's trying to go as MAGA as he
can to try to rally that part
of the electorate behind
him in his district.
It isn't working at all.
Not only are Jewish Americans massively
against him in his district and
were from the get go,
they made the right decision from day one.
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And by the way, he was running against
someone who was a Jewish American too, but
also Republicans in his
district have rejected him.
And so all of this histrionics
isn't going to help him at all.
But I wish that more people would realize
that a lot of our politicians are serial
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liars and all they're doing is serving
their donors and not their voters.
And none of them are proposing any
bills that help almost none of them
are proposing any bills that help you.
So this is America now, and it's so sad
that this is what we've devolved to with
a bunch of psychotic clowns running around
pretending to be our representatives.
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