Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at House Republicans who may vote to expel George Santos

A vote to expel the mendacious Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is coming as soon as later today, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is angry that the GOP majority in the House is even thinking about removing Santos but won’t pass her articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

“Let me get this straight,” she wrote on X. “The Republican majority controlled Congress has ousted a Republican Speaker and is now on the verge of expelling a not yet convicted Republican member, but we can’t even impeach [Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro] Mayorkas or Biden or stop the weaponized DOJ against Trump and all their political enemies?”

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Let me get this straight.

The Republican majority controlled Congress has ousted a Republican Speaker and is now on the verge of expelling a not yet convicted Republican member, but we can’t even impeach Mayorkas or Biden or stop the weaponized DOJ against Trump and all their…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 27, 2023

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Shortly after Santos was elected to Congress in 2022, several articles in the New York Times brought his lies to national attention. He lied about where he went to school, who he worked for, his family background, and even about being a star volleyball player.

Then came the accusations that he had been scamming people – or just outright stealing from them – for years. He also faced allegations of sexual harassment this year from his time in Congress.

Later in the year, Santos was charged with 13 – and then ten more – federal criminal charges in connection to various alleged schemes to enrich himself at the expense of his campaign donors and the government.

Earlier this month, the House Ethics Committee released its report where the committee voted unanimously that there was “substantial evidence” that Santos used campaign funds for his personal expenses and “sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.”

Santos has already said that he won’t seek reelection next year. Still, he refuses to resign, arguing that the House voting to expel him before his criminal trial has commenced is a violation of due process, even though the House has already completed its investigation.

Throughout it all, Greene has defended him. Last December, she said that “the real reason [Democrats are] attacking George Santos is that he is the first openly gay Republican elected and they hate him for it” and that he deserves “grace” because he “is admitting and apologizing for lying about his resume.”

As the House voted repeatedly for a new speaker in January, Greene and Santos were often spotted hanging out together in the chamber.

In May, after House Republicans blocked the first resolution to expel Santos, Greene got into a shouting match with Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) to defend Santos.

Santos and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reportedly had a conversation over Thanksgiving weekend about the Ethics Committee’s report on Santos.

“I’ve spoken to Congressman Santos at some length over the holiday and talked with him about his options,” Johnson told The Hill about their conversation. “But we’ll have to see. It’s not yet determined, but we’ll be talking about that when we get back tomorrow.”

Santos has already survived two attempts to expel him, the first time in May when several out LGBTQ+ Democrats filed a resolution to expel him and the second time earlier this month after several New York Republicans filed a resolution to expel him. But even Santos himself is saying that he doesn’t expect to survive this time.

“I know I’m going to get expelled when this expulsion resolution goes to the floor,” Santos said last Friday. “I’ve done the math over and over, and it doesn’t look really good.”

While not even a majority voted to expel him the first two times – two-thirds are needed to expel him – many Republicans who voted against his expulsion the last two times have changed their minds now that the House Ethics Committee’s report has been made public.

If he is expelled, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) can issue a proclamation for a special election to find someone to replace him for the remainder of the congressional session.

Greene, along with many other far-right Republicans, doesn’t like Secretary Mayorkas because they blame him for undocumented immigration into the U.S. It’s not clear if that qualifies as an impeachable offense – Greene argued that Mayorkas is not fighting undocumented immigration enough to meet the requirements of the 2006 Secure Fence Act – and it’s unlikely that the Democratic Senate will vote to remove him. Greene filed a resolution to impeach him earlier this month, which got referred to committee, where it’s expected to languish.