Ramaswamy calls George Santos ‘insane and pathological liar,’ but says expelling him from Congress was ‘wrong’

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy said that although George Santos appears to be “insane and a pathological liar,” expelling the disgraced Republican from Congress at this stage “was wrong.”   

Ramasawmy argued that Santos’s future in Congress should have been decided by the voters during next year’s election – or by his colleagues in the House only in the case of a criminal conviction. 

The decision of whether Santos can serve “belongs to the voters” and whether “he’s a criminal belongs to the courts,” Ramaswamy said in a statement posted on X, arguing that the expulsion “sets an awful precedent for the future” and “opens a Pandora’s Box that will surely be exploited the next time MTG [Marjorie Taylor Greene] or Matt Gaetz or whoever else in either party pokes the uniparty bear.” 

“This George Santos guy has some serious problems, and I’d live a good life if I never met the guy. Probably most of us would. But I think it’s wrong that he was expelled without putting it to the voters or without running it through the court process,” Ramaswamy said in a video message. “The judicial system determines guilt. The guy’s been indicted. Let that play itself out. Anybody since the Civil War who has been expelled – it’s only been two people – both of them were convicted in a court of law before their fellow congressmen got them out.”

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“As ugly as politicians are, and I think many of their behaviors are God awful, ugly, some of them downright criminal, we have a system for dealing with who serves in Congress. It’s this thing we call elections in our country,” Ramaswamy said. “We have them every two years. For Congress, there’s another one next year, just like there was one last year. So, if it has to be outside of that normal democratic process, it better darn well be a court of law that’s found somebody guilty. Now, this guy has been expelled, and he does seem like a pathological liar and everything else if what’s printed in the press is to be believed. That being said, this sets a terrible precedent.” 

Ramaswamy pointed to the case against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who was indicted in September for allegedly accepting thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold bars and a…