'No great things are coming': Author lays out why George Santos has 'very little reason to resign'

The House Ethics Committee on Thursday released its report on U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), alleging "overwhelming evidence" of misconduct, noting that he "spent campaign contributions on purchases at cosmetics retailer Sephora, high-end fashion house Hermès, and OnlyFans, which is a subscription and pay-per-view site that streams videos created by sex workers, musicians, artists," and more.

Following the report release, the GOP congressman announced he will not seek re-election next year.

Writer Mark Chiusano, author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing and Very American Legend of George Santos. discussed the upcoming book with MSNBC's Katie Tur, which dips deeper into details included in the House committees report.

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Chiusano: 'I mean, one of the great things about this ethics report is it just shows definitively the kind of patterns that he has been living his whole life — what I have been reporting on the last couple of months. He has always been interested in gamble, always been interested in shaping his body, botox, Ozempic, liposuction and now we know he was spending campaign money on them.'

Tur: 'Why did he think spending campaign money was okay, that he could get away with that?'

Chiusano: I think that one thing I learned about him, if you can imagine something, he will try it. He's tried every hustle, small to big? And again that's what's so great about the report — shows the big and the small.'

Tur: 'It was so sloppy, when he was filing his campaign finance reports, everything was just, you know, just under the threshold that would be audited and when you do it that many times, you spend $999.99, I think it's up to $10,000, actually, didn't he realize that would look kind of suspicious?

Chiusano: 'You know, he's been doing kind of suspicious things his whole life, and he's never really gotten fully caught, and so I think that he just kept trying, you know, and he never had -- he was acting with impunity his whole life, and only now is he kind of hitting the wall.'

Tur: 'Why has he not resigned?'

Chiusano: 'I think he has very little reason to resign. No great things are coming in his future, right, until he's done with kind of his jail time and is on 'Dancing with the Stars' or something like that. But he's got a couple of hard years ahead of him.'

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Tur: 'Why is someone obsessed with luxury want to become a U.S. congressperson, which is not the most luxurious job or the most luxurious paycheck?'

Chiusano: 'What I was writing about was two-fold, he was interested in the money he could make, and the way he could fund the very nice lifestyle, Sephora Ferragamo, etc. — on the campaign dime or even more simply just going out to nice restaurants, right, so that's part of it, and he also, I think, got caught up in this kind of political maelstrom of this, you know, post-2016 moment where politics was like the exciting thing to be in, and he's the kind of guy that is sort of interested in being famous and a little sloppy and messy, and politics it is.'

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