Long Island’s lying rep George Santos finally admitted to dressing up as a woman up to now – although he denied being a “drag queen” during a Saturday interview with reporters at LaGuardia Airport.
“No, I wasn’t a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young and rejoiced on the festival. Sue me for having a life,” the militant Republican congressman said in his first public response since allegations surfaced last week that he was performing as a drag queen named Kitara.
Santos, who’s openly gay, has repeatedly tried to disclaim reports of his cross-dressing past that surfaced last week after a 2008 photo was posted online by Eula Rochard, a Brazilian drag queen and Santos’ former friend.
A video also surfaced of a freshman wearing a black dress and sunglasses bragging about performing as a drag queen at a Pride Parade within the Rio suburb of Niteroi in 2005.
Reportedly, Santos and Rochard met when Rochard was already a longtime drag queen in a Brazilian city near Rio de Janeiro. She said that when she knew him, he called him “Anthony”, and that he “lied about all the things”.
She said Santos – who also went by the name Anthony Devolder – was never a skilled drag performer because he “did not have what it took.”
While Santos denied earlier this week that he “acted as a drag queen,” he didn’t deny that he is the person within the photos and videos.
“The most recent obsession with the media claiming that I’m a drag queen or ‘performed’ as a drag queen is categorically false,” Santos said. tweeted on Thursday. “The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I work to deliver results. I won’t be distracted or annoyed by it.”
When contacted by The Post in regards to the 2005 video, Santos replied in a text message: “Absolutely false and just one other buildup effect nonsense I’m coping with.”
Santos has been caught in a seemingly infinite web of lies about his education, employment history, ethnicity and other facets of his life.
Amongst his more outrageous claims are that his mother was killed within the September 11 attacks and his grandparents fled Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II. In actual fact, his grandparents and mother were in Brazil during each of those tragedies, in keeping with immigration records.
Santos ignored many questions from reporters about lies about his family on Saturday.
He just returned from a visit to Washington, where he attended a meeting on Friday night, CNN reported. He refused to say who he met, calling it “secret”.
Each Democrats and Republicans called for Santos to resign. Regardless, the GOP House Steering Committee placed him on two committees this week: Small Business and Science, Space and Technology.