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Newsday reported a newly surfaced video that shows Republican candidate George Santos confirming he wrote a “nice check” to support January 6th defendants with their legal fees.
The video makes clear that over a year after personally attending the “Stop the Steal” rally, Santos continues to side with the extreme and violent defendants whose actions resulted in five officer deaths and nearly 150 injuries.
“I’ve actually been working on funding a ton of them to get out,” Santos says in the video. “I went down to D.C. GITMO and I wrote a nice check to a law firm to see if we can help some of them out. Don’t want to publicize it.”
DCCC Spokesperson Ian Clarke
“George Santos has proven time and again that he stands on the side of dangerous ideologues, election deniers, and insurrectionists. Long Island can’t afford to risk an extremist like Santos in Washington.”
Read the full Newsday article below:
Santos’ ‘nice check’ for Capitol rioters
Newsday
Key Highlights:
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“I’ve actually been working on funding a ton of them to get out,” Santos said, adding that he “wrote a nice check for a law firm to see if we can help some of them out.” He then clarified that he didn’t “want to publicize it.”
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Santos has stated that he was “at the Ellipse on January 6,” spotlighting the site of President Donald Trump’s speech that afternoon.
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Santos continued to defend the arrested defendants over a year after the destructive riot: “Imagine breaking into your own house and being charged with trespassing,” he said.
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Saying that he doesn’t understand why the insurrections have been put in jail, he referred to “DC Gitmo,” in an apparent comparison to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
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The Santos campaign now refuses to answer questions about the video or the alleged financial support.
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