George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress

Disgraced ex-congressman and noted fabulist George Santos announced yet another run for Congress during a surprise appearance at Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday.

Despite currently facing federal criminal charges, Santos wrote on X during the speech that he’s looking to face off against his former colleague Representative Nick LaLota: “Tonight, I want to announce that I will be returning to the arena of politics and challenging Nick for the battle over #NY1. I look forward to debating him on the issues and on his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the country.”

LaLota, who actively helped remove Santos from office, previously called Santos “a sociopath” and attention seeker.

“Even the negative attention drives him. It’s become an embarrassment and a distraction to the Republicans in the House,” he told CNN in 2023, ahead of Santos’ expulsion from office.

Some of Santos’ bizarre lies included claims that he graduated from Baruch College and earned an MBA in international business from New York University when he had never graduated from any college. He said that his mother was working in finance at the World Trade Center on September 11 when she wasn’t even in the US. He alleged his maternal grandparents were Jews who fled the Holocaust when they were not. He also claimed that his company lost several employees in the 2016 Orlando, Florida, shooting at Pulse nightclub. None of the deceased had ever worked with Santos.

Upon his removal, Santos became the first House member to be expelled in more than 20 years. Among his sweeping criminal charges, Santos faces seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds,