George Santos announces press conference on Nov. 30 amid calls for expulsion
Jack Birle
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Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) announced he will be holding a press conference days after the House of Representatives returns from its thanksgiving recess. The announcement comes as he faces calls to resign after an ethics report detailed his alleged mishandling of campaign contributions.
Santos described 2023 as his “year from hell,” after facing two expulsion votes in the House, a federal indictment, and an extensive report from the House Ethics Committee on Thursday that referred his case to the Justice Department.
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“My year from Hell. Running for office was never a dream or goal, but when the opportunity to do so came I felt the time to serve my country was now. Looking back today I know one thing, politics is indeed dirty, dirty from the very bottom up. Consultants, operatives, the opposition, the party and more… the one thing I never knew was that the process in Congress was dirty,” Santos said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
“I will continue to fight for what I believe in and I will never back down. What the ‘ethics committee’ did today was not part of due process, what they did was poison a the jury pool on my on going investigation with the DOJ. This was a dirty biased act and one that tramples all over my rights. Press conference November 30th at 8am on The Capitol steps, I encourage ALL members of the press to attend. Happy Thanksgiving,” he concluded.
House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS) said he will introduce new expulsion articles against Santos on Friday, even as the ethics report went short of recommending expulsion. The New York Republican avoided being expelled from the House earlier this month, with many who voted not to expel him saying they wanted to wait for the findings of the ethics committee report. The House is scheduled to be back in session on Nov. 28.
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The report issued by the House Ethics Committee on Thursday found Santos had knowingly used campaign funds for personal purposes, filed false or incomplete reports to the Federal Election Commission, and “engaged in knowing and willful violations” in regard to the Ethics in Government Act.
Santos announced shortly after the report was released that he would not be seeking a second term in Congress, saying that his “family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time.”