Jamie Raskin Calls Out Republicans Who Support Trump For Voting to Expel Santos, Whose Lies ‘Pale in Comparison’

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called out Republicans who voted to expel George Santos from Congress but continue to support former President Donald Trump.

Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives on Friday morning after an Ethics Committee investigation he refused to testify in front of found him at fault for multiple wrongdoings, including using campaign funds on Botox and OnlyFans.

A coalition of Republican lawmakers joined together with Democrats to meet the two-thirds supermajority needed to make Santos the sixth representative ever expelled from the House. The resolution passed with 311 yeas to 114 nays, with 104 Republicans voting in favor.

Raskin told Yasmin Vossoughian during an interview on MSNBC that although he agrees and voted for Santos’ ouster, the former New York lawmaker’s wrongdoings ‘pale in comparison’ to the crimes committed by Trump.

“I do feel as if his offenses, his fraud, his lies, pale in comparison to the lies and fraud of Donald Trump, whose big lie that he won the presidential election, which he lost by more than seven million votes, 306 to 232 in the Electoral College then led to his incitement of a violent insurrection against the Union,” Raskin said.

“And so all those Republicans who voted to expel Santos should drop their support for Donald Trump immediately, who certainly engaged in far bigger lies than anything Jorge Santos ever attempted,” he added.

Trump currently faces criminal indictments in four jurisdictions with his alleged crimes ranging from mishandling classified material after leaving office, racketeering, and his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Watch the full clip above via MSNBC.