GOP Rep. George Santos denies claims he performed as a drag queen

Embattled Republican Rep. George Santos is highly rejecting claims that he as soon as carried out as a drag queen.

” The most current fixation from the media declaring that I am a drag Queen or ‘carried out’ as a drag Queen is unconditionally incorrect,” the New york city congressman tweeted Thursday after a Brazilian drag entertainer published a picture of herself with another private worn drag that she declares is Santos.

” The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to provide outcomes. I will not be sidetracked nor fazed by this,” the tweet continued.

Santos, who represents New york city’s 3rd District, has actually been under tremendous examination over the previous month for lying and misrepresenting his academic, work and household history, consisting of incorrectly declaring he was Jewish and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. He likewise deals with federal and regional examinations into his project financial resources. Santos has actually confessed to “decorating” his resume however has actually preserved he is “not a criminal.”.

The congressman– an out gay male– was recognized by a long time regional entertainer who states Santos passed the name Kitara Ravache. On January 12, entertainer Eula Rochards published an image of herself with another individual in drag who she declared was Santos at a Rio de Janeiro-area parade.

The picture is from a paper clipping from 2008 and determines the individual Rochards states is Santos as Kitara Revache.

Rochards likewise supplied to CNN another, clearer picture of the individual she declares is Santos, in addition to the clipping.

CNN has actually not individually validated the images.

In an interview with CNN, Rochards stated that it’s Santos in the photos, including that she understood him from LGBTQ occasions he went to in the town of Niterói, near Rio de Janeiro, where she stated he was popular in the gay neighborhood.

Rochards stated she acknowledged Santos from a current report and collected the old photos however was amazed to find out that Santos was a Republican politician.

” I do not understand him now, I just understood him then,” she stated.

” However if [Jair] Bolsonaro can win here, why would not Santos win there?” she included, describing the previous Brazilian president.

Rochards stated she wants Santos would own up to this part of his past.

” It’s magnificent work[to be a drag queen] He can’t victimize what he himself did, and if he does he is victimizing me,” she stated.

Santos has actually not responded to CNN’s ask for remark. He informed NBC News in a previous interview that he has “never ever skilled discrimination in the Republican politician Celebration.”.

Santos has actually voiced assistance in the past for policies viewed as inequitable versus LGBTQ people. In April 2022, he published a video on Facebook vocalizing his assistance for Republican politician Gov. Ron DeSantis’ legislation in Florida prohibiting particular mentor about sexual preference and gender identity in class. In the video, he implicated Democrats of “wishing to groom our kids”– a homophobic term that conjures up a concept that LGBTQ individuals corrupt kids.