The Daily Beast reports:
When confronted Tuesday during a CNN interview over his laundry list of lies, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) insisted he wasn’t deflecting—then proceeded to do exactly that. Anchor Erin Burnett, after rolling several clips of Santos, asked him to explain his fabrications.
“Erin, you know what would be great? I’m not deflecting, but I’m just going to call you out here and CNN. Have you brought Joe Biden on the network and spoken about all the things he’s said across the last 46 years?” said Santos.
Burnett countered by mentioning the president was “completely irrelevant” to her question—and that he had been informed prior to the interview that she planned to ask a variety of questions about his past statements and political fortunes.
Read the full article. The clips below swing between humiliating, amusing, and infuriating. I encourage you to watch every minute of Santos’s blustering and wailing.
this is going well pic.twitter.com/BjpM7LkpTL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2023
BURNETT: You had no idea what was happening with the books on your campaign?
SANTOS: No, I did not pic.twitter.com/6zjCWmPcup
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2023
lmao CNN put together a highlight reel of some of George Santos’s most outlandish lies and confronted him with it. Santos responds by bashing CNN. pic.twitter.com/YltRCVlFkE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2023