Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Please.
Do you remember George Santos?
So let me take you back to 2023.
George Santos arrives in Congress facing a cloud of questions, most of them sparked by my colleague Grace Ashford and I, who reported that he had lied about his background, where his campaign money came from.
He claimed to be this big Wall Street guy, and no one seemed to really know where the money was or what had happened to it.
And so when he arrived, there were a lot of members of Congress who said, this man lied his way into office, and we don't think he should be in the House.
And Kevin McCarthy, who was the speaker at the time, said, we can't kick somebody out of the House based on newspaper articles.
We don't have enough here.
There are investigations we can take.
And if you all really want to figure out what's going on with George Santos, let's do an ethics committee investigation.
So they do.
And traditionally, Ethics Committee investigations move very slowly.
It's kind of known by lawmakers that when something gets kicked over to the House Ethics Committee, it's going to take a while for it to be resolved, and it's kind of a way for everyone to get some cover and say, well, we're investigating this, but we need to give this investigation time to play out, and there needs to be some due process, and then we'll deal with the issue.
But in Santos' case...
It took less than a year for the Ethics Committee to come back and release this report that found substantial evidence of campaign finance fraud, of violating House ethics rules.
There are a lot of damning details about him spending the money on things like Botox and OnlyFans subscription.
And basically, a bunch of Republicans and Democrats come together and say enough is enough.
We're going to vote to expel him.
A vote takes a two-thirds majority of the House.
They clear that bar easily, and George Santos is removed from office.
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