HBO\u2019s film about him<\/a>, Santos stated \u201cthat movie is not ever going to happen. That book has no perspective of me or anybody close to me. It\u2019s fucking fiction,\u201d referring to Mark Chiusano\u2019s novel \u201cThe Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tSantos, the Republican consultant who was faraway from workplace Dec. 1 after an ethics report accused him of breaking federal regulation, joined Ziwe after she wrote to him on X that he would \u201cbe an iconic guest.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tThe scandal-ridden congressman from New York had 13 prison expenses leveraged towards him by the federal authorities, together with wire fraud, theft of public funds, cash laundering and making false statements to Congress. He was caught utilizing marketing campaign cash for private bills\u00a0\u2014 together with on automobile funds, OnlyFans, make-up and designer clothes \u2014 and accused of deceptive Congress about his monetary circumstances on official disclosure statements.<\/p>\n
\n\tSantos, the sixth member of the House ever to be expelled, was beneath intense public scrutiny earlier than he even took workplace because of his penchant for mendacity about his identification. He lied about the place he went to highschool and faculty, and the place he labored earlier than getting elected. He even lied about being Jewish, telling the New York Post after he was uncovered: \u201cI am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was \u2018Jew-ish.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe took pictures at different politicians, saying \u201cthey\u2019re all frauds. If you were to put them all under the same scrutiny I was under, you\u2019d fucking vacate the whole goddamn building.\u201d He listed Kevin McCarthy, Lindsay Graham, Bob \u201cGold Bar\u201d Menendez and Dan Goldman as fellow alleged fraudsters.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe made a number of different cringe-inducing claims in Ziwe\u2019s interview, like how he doesn\u2019t \u201csee color,\u201d how \u201cGen Z loves Trump\u201d and that he’ll \u201coutlive each and every member of Congress.\u201d He additionally weighed in on the probability of him becoming a member of \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d sooner or later \u2014 \u201cI\u2019ll pass.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tZiwe, who climbed the comedy ladder at The Onion and \u201cThe Rundown With Robin Thede,\u201d created a YouTube interview sequence titled \u201cBaited With Ziwe,\u201d wherein she humorously \u201cbaited\u201d her white pals into saying racial or in any other case politically incorrect fake pas. The present moved to Instagram Live after which landed at Showtime within the type of her selection sequence \u201cZiwe,\u201d which lasted two seasons and featured visitors together with Phoebe Bridgers, Bowen Yang, Fran Lebowitz, Julian Castro, Stacey Abrams, Chet Hanks, Emily Ratajkowski, Julia Fox, Michael Che and Drew Barrymore.<\/p>\n
\n\tWatch Ziwe\u2019s interview with Santos under.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n