No, George Santos wasn’t assaulted in Times Square — he staged the whole thing - INTO
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No, George Santos wasn’t assaulted in Times Square — he staged the whole thing

David Hudson

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Video went viral Saturday of the disgraced, former US Representative George Santos. It appeared to show a man throwing a milkshake over the former New York congressman in Times Square. Santos reacts with disbelief before walking off in disgust.

You can watch below.

Another former GOP Rep., Adam Kinzinger, was among those to comment. Kinzinger reshared the clip and said, “This is absolutely wrong.”

Santos made history in 2022 when he became the first, out-gay Republican Representative elected to the US Congress.

However, even before he was sworn in he became embroiled in controversy when it emerged he’d fabricated his résumé and lied about other aspects of his background. Congress booted him out in December 2023.

Since leaving Congress, Santos has focused on sorting out his legal woes and making money from selling Cameo videos. It also turns out he’s been working on his own podcast, ‘Pants On Fire’ (from the old ‘liar, liar’ children’s rhyme). After the milkshake video went viral on Saturday, Santos took to X to reveal the video was staged.

Santos responds

“Today a video has been circulating of what may look like an assault. I just want to clear it out, it was not.”

Santos claims the video was filmed “a couple of months” prior as a publicity stunt to promote his new podcast. However, he says following recent events in New York, he and his team decided not to use it.

By ‘events’, we’re presuming he’s alluding to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Santos says that putting out the video would be “insensitive, tone deaf.”

He says despite taking this decision, the video leaked and ended up online. He doesn’t want the video to be misconstrued. Santos added that the man in the video who throws a drink at him is a friend: “He was actually even uncomfortable having to do it.”

Santos goes on to say “sorry” for the video being out there.

“I’m sorry if this got you worked up and you were upset by it. This was for creative purposes. We were doing a take on some other stuff … just trying to be funny and whatever. Didn’t work and it wasn’t supposed to go out there, but it went and it’s cool.

“Everyone who’s mad at me, you deserve to be mad at me. I’ll take this one.”

Online, some people were still not convinced the leaked video itself wasn’t still a publicity stunt.

Santos awaits sentencing

In August, Santos pleaded guilty to two felonies just weeks before going on trial for 23 federal charges relating to wire fraud, identity theft, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.

Following a plea deal, he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Although the plea means he avoided a prolonged trial, he is still likely to face jail time. Aggravated identity theft alone carries a mandatory two-year jail sentence. Legal experts suspect he might get between 6-7 years.

Santos faces sentencing on February 7. He also needs to pay nearly $373,750 in restitution.

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