{"id":1119,"date":"2023-02-10T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:49:33","slug":"caught-on-tape-reserved-romney-in-nasty-exchange-with-george-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"CAUGHT ON TAPE: Reserved Romney In Nasty Exchange with George Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senator Mitt Romney, the normally reserved elder statesman from Utah, was caught on camera minutes before the start of President Biden\u2019s State of the Union address giving controversial Long Island Congressman George Santos a piece of his mind. During the brief exchange, Romney reportedly told Santos, \u201cyou don\u2019t belong here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Check out the tense exchange below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rumble-com wp-block-embed-rumble-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"CAUGHT ON TAPE: Reserved Romney In Heated Exchange with George Santos\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v266roy\/?pub=4#?secret=jr9JFE14Mf\" data-secret=\"jr9JFE14Mf\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"CAUGHT ON TAPE: Reserved Romney In Heated Exchange with George Santos\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v266roy\/?pub=4#?secret=jr9JFE14Mf\" data-secret=\"jr9JFE14Mf\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it\u2019s difficult to make out exactly what passed between the two men, it appears that Romney told Santos, \u201cyou aught to be embarrassed\u201d and preceded to call him \u201can ass\u201d multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky, who was standing next to Santos during the heated exchange, told The Washington Post\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LACaldwellDC\/status\/1623164648605331459\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh Ann Caldwell<\/a>&nbsp;that what Romney was \u201cthe rudest I\u2019ve ever seen a human being been to another human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN\u2019s Manu Raju caught up with Romney later in the evening and asked the junior Senator about the confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Santos] should be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the President and people coming into the room,\u201d Romney told Raju.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked Mitt Romney if he\u2019s disappointed that Speaker McCarthy hasn\u2019t called on George Santos to resign.<br><br>\u201cYes,\u201d he said. <br><br>Santos \u201cshould be sitting in the back row and staying quiet instead of parading in front of the President and people coming into the room,\u201d Romney said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/obpaYD8v1x\">pic.twitter.com\/obpaYD8v1x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1623173236002357249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, ABC reporter Lalee Ibssa asked Rep. Santos about the exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s reprehensible that the Senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way he said,\u201d Santos said about Sen. Romney\u2019s comments to him at last night. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t very Mormon of him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think it&#39;s reprehensible that the Senator would say such a thing to me in the demeaning way he said,\u201d Santos said about Sen. Romney\u2019s comments to him at last night\u2019s SOTU<br><br>\u201cIt wasn&#39;t very Mormon of him.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OUs3xuh5Wh\">pic.twitter.com\/OUs3xuh5Wh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lalee Ibssa (@LaleeIbssa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaleeIbssa\/status\/1623392519852630016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Santos also had this to say about Senator Romney on Tuesday evening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MittRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MittRomney<\/a> just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ANxiQPxAua\">https:\/\/t.co\/ANxiQPxAua<\/a><\/p>&mdash; George Santos (@Santos4Congress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santos4Congress\/status\/1623165717079007232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/caught-on-tape-reserved-romney-in-heated-exchange-with-george-santos\/\">https:\/\/www.thefirsttv.com\/caught-on-tape-reserved-romney-in-heated-exchange-with-george-santos\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mitt Romney, the normally reserved elder statesman from Utah, was caught on camera minutes before the start of President Biden\u2019s State of the Union address giving controversial Long Island Congressman George Santos a piece of his mind. During the brief exchange, Romney reportedly told Santos, \u201cyou don\u2019t belong here.\u201d Check out the tense exchange below: Though it\u2019s difficult to make out exactly what passed between the two men, it appears that Romney told Santos, \u201cyou aught to be embarrassed\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}