Politics & Government

Watch: George Santos Won't Rule Out Another Run In Ziwe Interview

"I don't do petty crimes," said disgraced former Rep. George Santos' in a wild interview with Ziwe. Check out the highlights.

QUEENS, NY — Look out, Queens voters — a certain disgraced accused serial liar and dubious Gen Z "icon" isn't ruling out another run for Congress.

Former Rep. George Santos made that assertion — and many, many more wild claims — during a highly anticipated interview with comedian Ziwe released Monday.

Ziwe asked Santos, who represented parts of Queens and Long Island before becoming only the sixth person to be expelled from Congress, if he'd run for office again.

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"Not now, but in the future I'm not ruling it out," he said.

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"Wow," Ziwe said, and not for the only time in the nearly 18-minute-long YouTube video.

Here are just some of Santos' other noteworthy assertions and exchanges in the video.

  • When asked what people could do to make him "go away," Santos said: "Stop inviting me to your gigs."
  • On his Black friends, Santos said he has "too many to count" and, "I don't see color, I grew up in Queens."
  • Santos asserted he could "physically" have a Black baby because of his father’s family background. "If I were to use my sperm…" he said. "To impregnate a woman?" Ziwe asked. "That’s a high possibility, and I’d love it," he said.
  • Santos confirmed he performed in drag, but not for long. "For a day when I was 18 years old," he said. "Look, if I was a career drag queen then, like everybody likes to claim, then I must be a myth of a drag queen now because I wear far more makeup today than I did in that picture."
  • In behind-the-scenes footage, Santos asked Ziwe to be "mindful" of Department of Justice accusations against him. Later, in the interview, he quipped about shoplifting: "I don't do petty crimes." "White collar," Ziwe responded.
  • Santos, according to a title card in the interview, asked to be paid three times for the interview. Ziwe didn’t pay him, the title card stated.
  • Finally, Santos admitted he had trouble with empathy, or at least defining it. "What's great about that, empathy, to me is probably — I don’t understand it," he said. "Because people accuse me of having no empathy, and I maybe I can't define that today."

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