Abby Phillips couldn't hide her visible disgust with Santos going on the House floor on Friday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day after lying about his Jewish heritage in his 2022 congressional campaign. In addition to Santos' lies, an earlier report by Patch had said Santos made derogatory remarks in old social media posts about Hitler and the Jews.

Source: Forward

U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who fabricated claims that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors and reportedly made Hitler jokes on social media, gave a speech in Congress Friday marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Noting that “the 27th of January marks the anniversary of the Auschwitz concentration camp being liberated,” Santos said: “We must honor the victims and survivors. We must also pay tribute to the liberators who rescued millions of people.”

In fact, only about 7,000 people remained in Auschwitz when it was liberated by the Soviet army in 1945, and experts estimate that only several hundred thousand Jews were alive in Europe when the war ended.

Santos made the remarks about Holocaust Remembrance Day a day after Patch reported that his now-deleted social media posts included a shared photo of someone making a military salute with the caption “something like Hitler” and Santos’ comment: “hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh hiiiiiiiiiiiitlerrrrrrrrrrr (hight hitler) lolololololololololololol sombody kill her!! the jews and black mostly lolllolol!!! Dum.”

In his remarks in Congress, Santos said that “antisemitism is a plague in this nation. It is undoubtedly up to us to be sure this kind of tragedy is never to be seen again.” He called his remarks “a tribute to aging survivors.”