McCarthy defended Santos' place in Congress amid reports that he fabricated large swaths of his résumé and probes into his financial disclosures, campaign finances and outstanding legal issues.
When asked if he can trust someone like Santos to access top-secret information at a news conference Thursday, McCarthy"You apply the Constitution equal to all Americans. The voters of his district have elected him. He is seated. He is part of the Republican Conference," he added, though he did not address the fact that voters could have been misled by Santos' alleged fabrications.
"There are concerns with it, so he will go before [the] Ethics [Committee]. If anything is found to be wrong, he will be held accountable exactly as anybody else in this body would be.""Look, he is going to have to build the trust here," he said. "And he’s going to have the opportunity to try to do that."
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