Rep. George Santos denies claims he performed as a drag queen



George Santos is under mounting scrutiny after denying claims that he participated in a drag performance while in Brazil. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin breaks down how Santos is reacting to the latest claims about his past and how lawmakers are reacting to multiple investigations against the freshman congressman. 

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43 comments

  1. HE NEEDS TO GO FN WERIDO! LIARE..

  2. But can he do the job? We shouldn’t elect people based on their personalities alone. Most of us have things in our past we’re not proud of. I really don’t care if he was a drag queen or was a streaker during a football game. Does he understand the economy? Will he fight to represent his constituents? Is he a pushover who caves to pressure when voting on something wrong for his people. He had the guts to run and that’s more than any of us have done. Look what Elizabeth Warren did! There’s a long list of things we’ve let slide when it comes to our side.

  3. One minute the left loves drag queens, enough to read to our kindergartners. Now it’s something to be shamed for. It shows the world you have no underlying principles, only an agenda with bad strategy.

  4. Liar face it drag queen needs in jail

  5. Kevin McCarthy: "I've had it with this guy! (Two or three times)."

  6. Can't believe that guy still has a job.
    Whatever happened to
    Law & Oath; what a democracy is based on?
    His employer must be a joke.
    Dallas, Texas

  7. Santo has a serious mental disorder? He’s definitely a narcissist who craves power and attention.

  8. can we get more pics of him in drag? perhaps on postcards or those digital art pictures?

  9. Santos has stepped on too many people’s toes.

  10. Stop misgending her- SHE IS A SHE !!!!!!!

  11. I'm 50 and have drawn my whole life. After looking at the picture of the drag queen and a picture of Santos side by side, it is definitely him, lol. Chin has the same mark on it, the teeth match, smile is in the same exact place.

  12. Insurrection Jan should have gotten a gig hosting a drag brunch and stayed tf outta politics 💃✨💯

  13. Big rule: know your audience. gop will accept a liar, but a drag queen? Pearl clutching time! 💋🤯

  14. THE LATEST SANTOS LIE: While investigating if he was this drag queen reporters found a now deleted old facebook page of his where he did acknowledge he was a drag queen named Kitara but also he said he worked as an extra on Hannah Montana.

  15. 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣‼🤣‼‼
    Omg , This is The Best 2Yr Republican S💩TShow McCarthy one term as speaker is just starting. ThankU GEORGINA💃

  16. Institute a mental health exam requirement for running for a federal office pleeeeeeeeeese!

  17. I sure wish the MEDIA would replay Joe Biden's speech from 1988. The one where Joe Biden had to step down from his FIRST Presidential election. Ya know, Plagiarizing, Cheating and paying kids to attend college and law school for him.. How NOBODY in EITHER graduating class remembered or, knew Joe Biden. Make this Santos look like a Catholic DRAG NUN! 1988, I was alive and remember it well. The very reason I refused to vote for ANYBODY in 2020..

  18. I love it! Since Republican voters continue to vote for Republicans against their own interests and the interests of the entire country, then they will suffer and reap the consequences along with the Republican Party. It’s reaping time for the GOP and those that continue to support those authoritarian traitors!

  19. My type of Republican. And the Republican leadership remains silent.

  20. Who voted for this scum ?

  21. CAN'T BELIEVE A WORD OUT OF HIS MOUTH

  22. Santos should run for President. He has all of the qualifications and checks every box on the republican side

  23. He denied it? Oh ok. That’s all I needed to hear…to know it’s true. 😂

  24. He’s too much… 😒

  25. George Santis is doing what Donald Trimp did in order to get into power – they both lied 🤥 and lied 🤥 and lied 🤥!!!
    Don’t act surprised!!! FIX IT!!!!

  26. Whenever a conman gets caught he just starts lying about everything for no reason.

    They are so used to lies saving them that they throw as many lies as the can in the homes that one of them will work.

  27. Insert actual footage of Kari Lake wiping sweat off of her forehead with her arm because this gets the attention off of her allegedly having been friends with a drag queen

  28. This guy's story just gets more and more bizarre….seriously, why haven't the republicans called for him to resign yet? It's all just bad press and makes them look like even bigger idiots than they already do. I swear our government is just full of loons on both sides of the aisle…it's like the only people willing to run for office anymore are completely unhinged lunatics….

  29. In the Republican party you can be:
    — a white supremacist
    — an insurrectionist
    — a fraud
    — a swindler

    But they will certainly draw the line at drag queen, and kick Santos out of the House.

  30. Something unusual is happening.

  31. Santos could be the head of the F.B.I. someday, it worked for J. Edgar Hoover?
    Santos, needs to show up on a milk carton. He is the lowest form of human scum!

  32. 🤓….New Trump ventriloquist act…." Trump & George "..🤓"I don't know why you have your hand up my butt, butt I kinda like it…!!"

  33. So the one thing that Santos is willing to deny publicly is that he's a drag queen. He must understand that the GOP will put up with lying, writing bad checks, stealing from a veteran and even falsely claiming your family was forced to flee from the Holocaust and that your mother was at Ground Zero on 9/11. But dressing up in women's clothes is something which that party simply won't tolerate. Glad to see that he's trying to appeal to Republican values voters.

  34. McCarthy He could put the pressure On Santo's? To step Down However McCarthy is definitely A PHONY

  35. I find it hard to believe a thing this moron says. Since he says it ain't so I believe it is really true. This man simply can't tell the truth!

  36. What a sick individual 🤯

  37. You people say that as if people don't make drastic changes in their life about their ideals and what they believe in and the things they would or wouldn't do in their 20s vs. 40s or 50s. That's typical that's how life works LOL. Stop acting holier than thou, can we dig into your history? I'll bet you wouldn't like that. It's not your business whether he did or not. All that matters is what he if he does his job in Congress and those things legally

  38. Santos is DRAGGING down the GOP😄