officials lying while they re in office. in some ways critics withstand the republican side you ve seen a lot of election denier some of you have been truthful. really rising in the last four years. what s your concern about that? i think george santos is a symbolic and indictment over the republican party has become. you have a party that openly embraces candidates who support armed insurrection. and one example is marjorie taylor greene whose defending george santos. i think any party that s associated with the fraudulent people like donald trump interest santos a. party that supports an insurrection against the u.s. capitol. it s no longer conventional political party. it s become a cult of personality. this is truly an indictment of the republican party which is self destructing even before they assumed power. the republicans are not yet in power. and yet the republicans did not have enough votes to select their own speaker. you have george santos whose fraudulent has been expose
serisl that situation eventually resolved, very interesting story there, too. but through that whole, you know, insurrection, he never lost the support of his political party. the republican party in north dakota still stood by him. still loved him. so right after his whole armed insurrection thing, armed insurrection at the state house, barricading himself in office to stay there by forceful declaring martial law. trying to break up the united states of america to save himself and stay in power. a few years after that, the republican party in his state decided that he was the best man in the whole state to be their nominee for the united states o senate. as long as i m in the senate, i ll be there battling for north dakota and for the united states of america. i ll be battling for the united states of america. except when i m battling to get rid of the united states of america so i can stay in power by force. just an amazing tale, right? mostly forgotten but an amazing tale.
and yes. here today in 2022, it is bananas that the republican party is nominating the yay for the unabomber guy and all the rest of these guys. but i find it comforting, sort of energizing to know that this is not our first go-around with people you can t believe are anywhere near real power. we have contended with problems like this in the past. when north dakota s william langer actually got elected to the u.s. senate in 1940 from north dakota, his record was so insane, right? his recent exploits were so blatantly illegal, that the u.s. senate had to decide after the election whether they would allow him to take his seat given that he had tried seceding. he had declared martial law. he had mounted an armed insurrection against the governmentful also the corruption charges that started