Two Democratic lawmakers from New York on Sunday called on Republican leaders to “forthrightly cooperate” with all the investigations into Rep. George Santos.
The report expanded"upon the degree to which each of you had at least some foreknowledge of Mr. Santos’s lies," Goldman and Torres wrote."Sadly, even now, after eight other Republican members of Congress have called for Mr. Santos to resign, you have refused to make any public comment on Mr. Santos’s fraudulent candidacy, nor have you shared with the public your understanding of Mr. Santos’s blatant deception and lies prior to the election.
“It is one thing for a candidate such as Mr. Santos to induce voters to support him based on a web of lies," Goldman and Torres wrote."But it is altogether something else if the top levels of Republican leadership knew about Mr. Santos’s lies during the campaign and chose to be complicit.
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