George Santos trolls Republicans who supported his ouster

• The House seat vacated by former Republican Rep. George Santos was flipped to Democrats in Tuesday’s election.
• Mr. Santos trolled Republican lawmakers who supported his resignation, accusing them of losing Republican seats.
• In Santos’ seat, Democrat Tom Suozzi shrinks House Republican majority.

Former Republican Rep. George Santos maintained his sarcastic sense of humor and trolled a former colleague with an X on Tuesday after election results showed his former House seat would be filled by a Democrat.

Santos’ former seat will be filled by Democrat Tom Suozzi, shrinking the Republican majority in the House. Mr. Suozzi defeated Republican Maji Pilip in the race for the seat representing New York’s 3rd Congressional District.

“Hey Americans! Thank you to these two gems who lost their seats today!” Santos posted alongside the photo Republican Reps. Nick Larota and Anthony D’Espositoupheld Santos’ expulsion from the House of Representatives after he was indicted on 23 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and identity theft.

Mr. Santos has pleaded not guilty.

“George Santos deserves to be in prison, not Congress. He lied to voters, donors and party leaders to get to this point and committed numerous acts of fraud,” Larota said in a statement in October. ” and announced the submission of the resolution. expel Santos from the House of Representatives. “He had plenty of time to do the right thing and resign. He has shown no integrity or moral compass whatsoever, so the only logical step is to expel him from Congress.” New York and the House of Representatives will be better off when he’s in prison. ”

A subsequent ethics report found that Mr. Santos had defrauded donors and misused political contributions to his campaigns, spending the money on Botox, OnlyFans and luxury goods from Hermès. He criticized the report as a political “smear”.

In another post, Santos simply wrote “-1” lost the Republican seat.