George Santos now claims he could beat Mitt Romney in a jiu-jitsu cage match

Beleaguered Long Island Rep. George Santos (R-NY) put on his Ozempic face at a Midtown Manhattan party recently to claim he’s lost nearly a hundred pounds on the miracle drug. He also said he practiced “jiu-jitsu for five years,” a claim which some are doubting since Santos has previously lied about being a star volleyball player at a college he never attended.

According to the gossip publication Page Six, Santos attended the August 22 birthday bash for Park Magazine publisher Chris Pape at the Bice Cucina restaurant just down the street from Trump Tower.

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How Santos ended up at the restaurant was unclear. A spokesperson for Santos says the indicted congressman didn’t know whose party he was attending.

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An insider told Page Six, “George said, ‘I’ve lost 92 pounds on Ozempic over the last eight months.” While his pharmacist boyfriend had expressed concerns about the drug, Santos beamed he’d “lost nearly 100 pounds” thanks to off-label help from the diabetes medication.

The drug and other Type 2 diabetes treatments have taken Hollywood by storm, with a growing list of celebs admitting they’re using the drugs to get thin, including Amy Schumer, Charles Barkley, Sharon Osbourne, Chelsea Handler, Rosie O’Donnell, Khloé Kardashian, and Elon Musk, to name a few.

At the same swanky gathering, Santos also claimed he could take Republican rival Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) down in a “cage match.”

One attendee suggested Santos challenge Romney, who called out the freshman congressman at President Biden’s February State of the Union address, to a fight like the failed match-up between Twitter’s transphobic billionaire owner Elon Musk and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.

“I’d do that,” boasted Santos, “but it wouldn’t be fair as I’m Brazilian, and I’d beat his butt because I studied jiu-jitsu for five years.”

According to Page Six, a Santos spokesperson confirmed that Santos recalled the joke, and that he “participated in Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a young man.”

Santos also held forth on Donald Trump (he’s supporting him), his own reelection prospects (he’s confident he’ll win), and his rising star in Congress (those committee seats that were stripped away will be his again).

“I’m running and the people in my district are more supportive all the time,” the source reports Santos saying. “I’m working every day for my constituents, and I’m going to beat all… of my Republican opponents in the primary. They’re all going to split the vote and I’m going to win.”

Only four people in his district have donated to Santos’ reelection bid this year.

The 35-year-old out gay rep is currently under investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, and the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York. He has left a large trail of lies and deception behind him after his successful election to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District last year.

He’s admitted to lying to voters about graduating from New York University and Baruch College, working for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, founding a charity called Friends of Pets, attending the Horace Mann prep school, being a star volleyball player, his grandparents escaping the Holocaust, his mom dying in the September 11 terrorist attacks, and that four of his “employees” dying in the June 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.

As a party guest shared about Santos, “He’s really quite charming…but there are a few problems LOL.”