It’s getting harder and harder not to like Sen. John Fetterman. Not only has he been rock solid on support for Israel, he’s also been pointing out that Senate Democrats have an even worse problem than House Republicans do. Last week on The View, Fetterman was asked what he thought about the expulsion of Rep. George Santos and immediately turned the discussion to Sen. Menendez.
Sen. John Fetterman tells #TheView he’s “not surprised” by the vote to expel George Santos from the House: “If you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?”
“Menendez, I think is really a senator for Egypt, not New Jersey.” pic.twitter.com/YfvEaSSM4L
— The View (@TheView) December 1, 2023
Sen. Menendez responded Friday to Fetterman’s appearance on the View:
In a statement to POLITICO, Menendez said “Mr. Fetterman appears to think he’s judge, jury, and executioner. The junior Senator from Pennsylvania seems to be more interested in clickbait than justice.”
“He cannot say he stands for core constitutional principles of due process and the presumption of innocence when he is actively working to undermine my rights. I’m confident when all the facts are presented, I will be exonerated and the Senator will have to eat his words,” Menendez continued.
To be clear a bunch of Democrats have called on Menendez to resign but he’s clearly not going to do that. So who is calling for his expulsion? Other than Fetterman I’m not sure anyone Democrat is pushing to oust him. That’s understandable given that Dems have a one seat majority in the chamber. But obviously Fetterman doesn’t think that should matter. He’s actually making a principled argument while most of his colleagues are saying nothing.
Meanwhile, former Rep. Santos has turned to Cameo, the celebrity video message service as a way to make money.
Now former-Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has wasted no time turning his congressional expulsion lemons into lemonade, apparently signing up to sell personalized videos through Cameo.
The indicted ex-lawmaker, who last week became just the sixth person in American history to be expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, initially offered to send fans a personalized video for $75 a pop, then raised his price to $200 only hours later.
Santos’ apparent profile on the site—which is also being promoted in the bio of his X account—describes Santos as a “Former congressional ‘icon’” and the “Expelled member of Congress from New York City.”
And today, Sen. Fetterman decided to take advantage of Santos new gig by hiring him to send a very special message to Sen. Menendez. Santos’ message wasn’t to quit of course. Santos never did after all. He had to be expelled. So his message to Menendez is to make the critics “put up or shut up.” Still, coming from the recently expelled Santos this whole thing is pretty funny.
I thought my ethically-challenged colleague @BobMenendezNJ could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems.
So, I approached a seasoned expert on the matter to give ‘Bobby from Jersey’ some advice. pic.twitter.com/y8iX55EyNi
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) December 4, 2023
Santos’ customer service is pretty impressive:
This vid was paid for with campaign funds and came back within 16 mins of the request, per Fetterman spox https://t.co/TDaGLx2oIq
— Ursula Perano (@UrsulaPerano) December 4, 2023
This wasn’t Santos first Cameo message. Here’s another one he did today for someone named Megyn earlier today.
Santos’ first Cameo is out…
“… They can boot me out of congress but they can’t take away my good humor or my larger than life personality…” https://t.co/xFXZOWuXDC pic.twitter.com/hBTqFor5bK
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) December 4, 2023
No reaction from Sen. Menendez to the Cameo clip so far. Looks like he hasn’t tweeted anything since Friday.
Finally, Santos himself apparently tagged Fetterman’s tweet. The levels of trolling and irony are now past my ability to count.
I love this! I wish I knew the Bobby in question! LOL 😂 https://t.co/kPyNX1tffy
— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) December 4, 2023
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