Rep. George Santos was removed from office by the House of Representatives on December 1, dividing Republicans. Some believe he wasn’t given due process since the criminal charges against him haven’t played out yet, and believe Republicans need to start playing hardball with the Democrats and stop deserting our own, especially since the GOP controls the House by a narrow margin. They believe it should be up to the voters in his district to eliminate him. Others disagree, pointing out that if we excuse the worst on our side, then we have no standards.

Most seriously, Santos was accused of using campaign donors’ money for personal expenses, including OnlyFans (former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. went to prison for the same thing), stealing the identities of campaign donors, and then using their credit cards to make tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges, and reimbursing himself for several hundred thousand dollars in loans to his congressional campaign that he appears to have never actually made.

Things got worse among his colleagues when Rep. Max Miller (R-OH-07) told CNN, “Mr. Santos’ [campaign] took not only my credit card, personally, he took my mother’s credit card, personally, and he swiped them both for an additional $5,000, marking it as an ‘over-donation.’ …He defrauded over 350 people for hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

In May, Santos was indicted on 13 criminal charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, public funds theft, and making false statements to the House of........

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