George Santos wants to replace Trump’s fired press secretary. He has experience with lies

Could a disgraced gay former congressman convicted of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft become President Donald Trump’s new press secretary? George Santos wants to give it a shot.

After Katie Zacharia lasted less than a week as the face of the White House, prominent media figures began expressing interest in the high-profile job, and the expelled New York congressman was among those digitally raising their hands.

“Hey I’m not technically open for a job because I have one already…. butttttttt… I’d jump to serve POTUS as press secretary in a heart beat,” Santos posted on X. “Just saying.”

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The social media post came a few hours after the first reports that Zacharia had been shown the White House door. Zacharia held only one press briefing, which lasted 14 minutes.

Her exit followed mounting scrutiny of apparent misrepresentations about her legal credentials. Trump introduced her as an attorney, but she acknowledged she failed the California bar exam and never retook it. She nevertheless defended calling herself a lawyer, saying she had been advised she could use that term but not “attorney.” The controversy dominated Fox News interviews in the final hours of her tenure, before Trump publicly suggested she reconsider the job.

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Santos has his own history of fabricated credentials. He lost his job in Congress after making numerous false claims about his background before being elected. A House Ethics Committee investigation found that he used campaign funds for personal expenses, including Botox, and reported fictitious personal loans to his campaign. His fabrications also included claiming he held a degree from Baruch College in New York and worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He was only the sixth member of Congress in history to be expelled from the body.

Santos was later sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to two federal felony counts: wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He had faced a 23-count indictment. He was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison, but Trump, calling the punishment “excessive,” commuted Santos’ sentence after he served only about three months in federal prison.

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Santos also came under federal investigation this year, during Trump’s second term, for allegedly placing bets on Kalshi about his own actions, such as whether he would attend Trump’s State of the Union address.

More recently, Santos appeared on Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, but his stint on the reality competition show was brief. He voluntarily withdrew during the season’s second episode, on October 1, citing severe sciatic nerve pain. His departure followed a viral clip of him struggling to climb onto a floating platform before falling back into the water.

And he would not be the only convicted felon to work in this administration. Trump himself was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.