Controversial Long Island Rep. George Santos likened himself to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks during a rant on a conservative podcast, saying he “won’t sit in the back” amid cri…
“I’m gonna call them out,” he added. “You want to call me a liar? I’ll call you a sellout. I mean, Mitt Romney — the man [who] goes to the State of the Union of the United States wearing a Ukraine lapel pin — tells me, a Latino gay man, that I shouldn’t sit in the front, that I should be in the back.
Indicted US Rep. George Santos compared himself to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in a new interview, saying he won’t “sit in the back” amid federal fraud charges and a House ethics probe into widespread wrongdoing.Parks famously refused to sit in the back of a bus reserved for “colored” passengers in segregated Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, launching the 13-month bus boycott and triggering the modern civil rights movement for African-Americans.
Prosecutors have submitted some 80,000 pages of documents alleging that Santos fraudulently collected COVID unemployment benefits, lied on Congressional financial disclosed forms and laundered money.
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