{"id":5233,"date":"2023-11-29T08:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2023-11-29T08:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:21:03","slug":"could-george-santos-torch-the-house-by-vacating-the-speaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-george-santos-torch-the-house-by-vacating-the-speaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Could George Santos torch the House by vacating the Speaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"569\" data-attachment-id=\"5220\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/could-george-santos-torch-the-house-by-vacating-the-speaker\/george-santos-on-x\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"598,569\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"George-Santos-on-X\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X-300x285.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X.jpg 598w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/George-Santos-on-X-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day, George Santos (R-NY) took to X (formerly Twitter) to decry his enemies and victimization. Part of the tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSantosNY\/status\/1725346085332205656\">said<\/a>, \u201cWhat the \u201cethics committee\u201d did today was not part of due process, what they did was poison the jury pool on my ongoing investigation with the DOJ. This was a dirty biased act and one that tramples all over my rights.\u201d He went on to say he will be holding a press conference on November 30th at 8:00 AM on the Capitol steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While jawing about this weirdness with a former Hill staffer, I wondered, \u201cHow will Santos exit the chamber?\u201d He already has said he is not going to run for reelection&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefulcrum.us\/could-george-santos-torch-the-house-by-vacating-the-speaker\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, George Santos (R-NY) took to X (formerly Twitter) to decry his enemies and victimization. Part of the tweet said, \u201cWhat the \u201cethics committee\u201d did today was not part of due process, what they did was poison the jury pool on my ongoing investigation with the DOJ. This was a dirty biased act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-5233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-the-fulcrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}