George Santos Victim Drops Shattering Truth On CNN — Transcript

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1. 0:00I mean I watch the news all the time
2. 0:02um
3. 0:02kind of a hobby I love my YouTube news
4. 0:04but I saw his face and I knew I sort of
5. 0:07recognized him a little bit because we
6. 0:08had been Facebook friends while it was
7. 0:10while the well the campaign was going on
8. 0:12um so I knew what he looked like and I
9. 0:14knew his voice and that was the only
10. 0:16thing I knew about him and I saw him on
11. 0:17TV and I was like
12. 0:18I got a feeling in the pit of my stomach
13. 0:20about this guy
14. 0:23that is Richard ostoff who we talked
15. 0:25about earlier this week on the show it's
16. 0:27the veteran who had unfortunately
17. 0:30crossed paths with George Santos before
18. 0:33he became a politician relied on George
19. 0:35Santos under whatever assumed name he
20. 0:37was using at that point to raise money
21. 0:39to help with the tumor that his dog was
22. 0:41suffering from George Santos raised the
23. 0:44money took the money and the dog
24. 0:46eventually died and so now Richard
25. 0:49osthoff who realizes who it was that he
26. 0:52was dealing with is uh going on the news
27. 0:54to talk about the experience we have a
28. 0:55little bit more of his interview here
29. 0:58what would you say to him if you
30. 1:01if he was here now what would you say to
31. 1:02him
32. 1:03do you have a heart
33. 1:07do you have a soul
34. 1:13and he probably would lie about that
35. 1:16I mean I I don't want you to ever hurt
36. 1:18anybody like you hurt me again George
37. 1:21and nobody else should ever have to go
38. 1:22through that I almost killed myself when
39. 1:24that dog died
40. 1:27the entire thing just kills you to hear
41. 1:29about it is again sometimes it's the
42. 1:33smaller
43. 1:35pettier crimes and lies that are I think
44. 1:38easier for us regular people to imagine
45. 1:41happening to us that hit the hardest
46. 1:44like you know when presidents lie you
47. 1:47know about a tax cut they lie about
48. 1:49going to a war those things are so big
49. 1:51that it's hard to really wrap your mind
50. 1:54around it
51. 1:55but like approaching a vet whose dog is
52. 1:58going to die and then lying about how
53. 2:00you're going to raise money for it and
54. 2:02then pocketing the money and running
55. 2:03that could happen to me it could happen
56. 2:06to you stuff like that might have
57. 2:08happened to you and for that person to
58. 2:11now be sitting on the house floor just
59. 2:15grinning about how they got away with it
60. 2:17is just so sickening on a on a personal
61. 2:20real level and so you feel the pain of
62. 2:24Richard ostoff in that interview and so
63. 2:26I'm so glad that his story is is getting
64. 2:28coverage Richard what do you think
65. 2:30yeah I I had never seen that interview
66. 2:33but it's clear to me how vulnerable this
67. 2:37person was and how they trusted someone
68. 2:39and that person cruelly betrayed them I
69. 2:42I agree with you I think it's it really
70. 2:44you know I I don't think that anybody
71. 2:46who lies casually has any place in
72. 2:49public office but the the lie on such a
73. 2:52personal level is like a different thing
74. 2:54like you really feel it differently and
75. 2:56you know it really it that that his
76. 2:59story is very moving and I think we
77. 3:01really have to ask like is this the
78. 3:03character of somebody that we think
79. 3:04should be in elected office and the
80. 3:06answer is no
81. 3:07no definitely not I mean it that's like
82. 3:10the latest thing that you'd add on to an
83. 3:12entire pile of things that are reasons
84. 3:13from to not be in office but but this
85. 3:15but this should be enough like
86. 3:18again I I have no idea how he could
87. 3:21possibly get re-elected with with all
88. 3:23that we know although you know we live
89. 3:25in a Hell world so I guess anything's
90. 3:26possible but it's not enough to just let
91. 3:30him have two years that is not
92. 3:31acceptable he needs to go he needs to be
93. 3:34taken out of that position it's not
94. 3:36going to bring the dog back to life it's
95. 3:38not going to make good all of the people
96. 3:40who have suffered from crossing paths
97. 3:42with Anthony devalder George zabrovski
98. 3:45or whatever the hell he calls himself
99. 3:46but at least it would be a start
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