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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Yeah, it was a big deal.
They kicked him out.
Before Santos, only five people in the history of the House had been expelled.
Three of them were kicked out because they fought for the Confederacy against the United States, which was basically seen as an act of treason.
And two of them had been convicted of felony charges, and their trials had gone through the whole process, and they had been convicted.
That's right.
When the House is pressed and when it feels like there's urgency, Santos' expulsion shows it will find a way to get rid of people who it thinks should not be in its midst.
And this was kind of a sign that the House was capable of policing itself when it saw misconduct that it thought was so beyond the pale that it had violated the oath that lawmakers took, that it had violated the public trust that members are supposed to have with the American people.
They said, enough is enough.
We need to kick this guy out.
We don't want him here.
And this was something they had really been reluctant to do because representatives see themselves as being elected by their constituents.
They answer to their constituents.
And the general sense was that it was up to lawmakers and their constituents to decide whether they wanted to stay in their seat.
And in Santos' case, his colleagues basically took the decision out of everyone's hands and said, we're getting him out of here.
We want somebody who we think is more suited to the office.
Right.
And the House's decision to eventually remove him from office really set the stage for what we saw this week with Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzalez.
So I think we should start with Tony Gonzalez.
He's a Republican from Texas whose district runs along the U.S.
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