Even as he faces 23 criminal counts and a possible expulsion from Congress, the man cannot stop telling the most absurd of lies.
Earlier this month, the representative from New York added 10 criminal counts to the 13 he was originally charged with in May, with federal prosecutors alleging he stole donor identities, used their credit cards to make more than $44,000 in charges, and wired some of the money to his own personal bank account and campaign coffers.
“Look, I don’t want to go into like, conspiracy theory,” he said. “But you know, if the shoe fits, right?” According to Ashford, she subsequently got in touch with a high-ranking member of law enforcement, who told her that the matter had been looked into—and that there was no evidence of any kidnapping, period, or, really, any connection to the Chinese Communist Party. “We found nothing at all to suggest it’s true,” the official told Ashford. “I’d lean into, ‘he made it up.
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