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Disgraced MAGA Star Accused of Making Wild Threat

Drew Angerer / Drew Angerer/Getty Images Disgraced ex-congressman George Santos is accused of telling a reporter that his exposé on him would “get you a gun in your face.” Santos, 37, was expelled from Congress in December 2023 and later jailed for fraud, only to walk free in 2025 after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence. He has reinvented himself as an online provocateur on X. NPR journalist Bobby Allyn says the alleged threat came in a furious phone call from a blocked number, a day after he revealed that the Justice Department and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission had opened investigations into Santos’s trading on the prediction market Kalshi. The federal scrutiny was first reported by NPR. Read more at The Daily Beast.