‘You’re a woman beater’: Fabulist George Santos fires back at Republican colleague calling him a ‘crook’ by bringing up claims he was abusive to Melania Trump’s former press secretary
George Santos is hitting back at his fellow Republicans, calling Ohio Rep. Max Miller a “woman beater” ahead of a vote that will likely mark the unceremonious end of Congress’s most notorious liar.
“You, sir, are a fraud,” Miller, an Ohio Republican, said on the House floor.
“My coworker wants to come here and call me a fraud,” Santos said. — The same colleague who is accused of beating women. Are we really going to ignore the fact that we all have a past?”
He referred to statements by Miller’s ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham. The couple dated when Miller was an aide to former President Donald Trump and Grisham was press secretary to former first lady Melania. She also worked for a time as Trump’s press secretary.
Sources close to Grisham claim Miller slapped her after she accused him of cheating.
The couple were believed to have been together for 18 months and even adopted a French bulldog named Gus before things are believed to have turned sour.
Miller was dating Grisham in April 2020 when she confronted him at his Washington, D.C. apartment, accusing him of cheating on her, sources told Politico.
Three unnamed sources cited by Politico say he pushed her against a wall, slapped her and threw a toy tennis ball at her.
The report also claims he tried to grab her in the elevator as she tried to leave.
He vehemently denied it, Grisham made no comment, and the incident is not believed to have been reported to police.
“You, sir, are a fraud,” Miller, R-Ohio, said on the House floor.
“My coworker wants to come here and call me a fraud,” Santos said. — The same colleague who is accused of beating women. Are we really going to ignore the fact that we all have a past?”
In her new book, I’ll Answer Your Questions, Grisham claims Trump asked her if her boyfriend was “good in bed.” She didn’t identify who he was referring to, but Miller was her significant other at the time.
But according to Politico, this is one of a series of incidents that raise questions about Miller’s past.
“Miller pushed her. He slapped her. She ran away. The temperature dropped to 40 degrees that evening and Grisham left without a coat, just her purse,” the report said.
He denied it, but unnamed sources said it was true.
Grisham also accused Miller of taking a French bulldog he gave her and keeping it after the relationship ended.
‘It happened. It was brutal and it was hard for her,” said one of the sources, who was described as someone “very close” to Grisham but not from the White House.
Santos, meanwhile, remained defiant until the very end, refusing to resign before the expulsion vote. “If I leave, they will win,” he reasoned.
The 35-year-old newcomer called his expulsion and report “theater for the American people at the expense of the American people because no real work is being done.”
Santos survived a vote to expel him earlier this month because 31 Democrats and a majority of Republicans voted to keep him in, with many saying they would prefer to wait until the Ethics Committee’s report detailing his misdeeds comes out.
That report has now been made public, saying Santos used money and campaign contributions to finance a lavish lifestyle, engaged in fraud, filed false election reports and “willfully” violated ethics.
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This is the fifth time Congress has decided to expel a member. And it would be the first time a member would be expelled without condemnation or support for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
In addition, Santos has already pleaded not guilty to 23 charges in federal court, including identity theft, charging his donors’ credit cards without their approval and filing false campaign reports.
He is not expected to appear in court until September next year.
The ethics committee said two payments of $1,500 and one of $1,400 on the congressman’s campaign debit card, which were not reported to the Federal Election Commission, were reported as “Botox.”
The report notes another $20,000 campaign transfer to Santos’ company Devolder, which had a negative account balance at the time. From there, the money was used to make $6,000 in purchases at Ferragamo, withdraw $800 in cash at the casino, withdraw another $1,000 in cash outside Santos’ apartment and pay his rent.
Santos also received payments into his personal account for money he never loaned for the campaign, the report said.
He increased the amount of more than six consumer loans he issued for the campaign, which actually amounted to $3,500, but he claimed the total amount would be as much as $80,000.
Declaring that he would not run again but would remain in Congress for the rest of his term, Santos wrote on X: “My family deserves better than being in the crosshairs of the press all the time.”