I want to be remembered as somebody who stood up to everybody in the time of adversity.

I want people to draw strength from difficult times. I don't want people to cave. I don't

want people to fumble. I want people to look and say, look, times might be tough, but there was always George Santos.

You know, and I mean that wholeheartedly, I think it takes

a lot of resilience to go through what I've gone through.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic

thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

The film The Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so make sure to watch it.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising

autocracy around the world.

Our opening clip was a well-known self-help guru George Santos,

a Steve Bannon project propped up by Dirty Russian Algarclinked money who was indicted by the feds

for theft of public funds, wire fraud, and money laundering. Santos was released from custody

thanks to a $500,000 bond secured by three

individuals whose identities are not public. According to the New York Times, who would bail out

a creepy serial liar who has no political future in New York in a district that went to Biden and only went to Santos

because Jay Jacobs is terrible at running the Democratic Party of New York and needed to be replaced

years ago. The fact that anyone would bail out Santos signals that he's still useful to the

criminal far-right elite who have invested in him,

which means George Santos is only the tip of the iceberg. We'll get to more of that, but first,

a program change. We're going to have the live taping of Gaslit Nation on May 23rd at 1.30 p.m. Eastern as planned,

but this time we're featuring friend of the show, Olga Lottman, an expert on the Russian mafia,

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