Republican fabulist George Santos compares himself to Rosa Parks

Congressman who has pleaded not guilty to 13 fraud-related counts condemned as disgrace' by prospective opponent

George Santos, the Republican congressman whose resume has been shown to be largely fabricated and who has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds, stoked outrage by comparing himself to the great civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks didn't sit in the back, and neither am I gonna sit in the back," Santos told Mike Crispi Unafraid, a rightwing podcast.