In less than a week after he was expelled from the House for his myriad of scams and general scumbaggery, Republican now-former Long Island Congressman George Santos has earned a shit ton of money cranking out Cameo video greetings at now $200 to $300 each, Semafor reports. The wording of their story is slightly dicey but it appears he’s already just in the last few days earned more than the $174,000 annual salary he would’ve made had he survived a full year in Congress, according to screenshots Santos sent to Semafor that were then verified by Cameo’s CEO.
The videos take less than a minute to crank out and if Santos did a few thousand that’s a pretty realistic sum. The demand is obviously there too, as Georgie boy definitely seemed a little fatigued when Senator John Fetterman used Santos to troll scumbag colleague “Bobby from Jersey.”
And yes, be outraged that Santos makes this much while doctors and firefighters and teachers make blah blah blah. It’s a novelty that people are into right now because Santos just got expelled that will fade and then probably spike again when he goes on trial in the spring. It’s the same story as Tom DeLay going on stupid Dancing with the Stars before he just barely avoided going to prison and Rod Blagojevich doing that stupid California pistachios commercial before he did not avoid it… at least partially since Trump fucking commuted his sentence after eight years for God knows what reason.