'You're a woman beater': Fabulist George Santos fires back at Republican colleague calling him a 'crook' by bringing up claims he was abusive to Melania Trump's former press secretary

George Santos is hitting back at his GOP colleagues, calling Ohio Rep. Max Miller a 'woman beater' ahead of a vote that is likely to mark the unceremonious end for Congress' most famous liar. 

'You sir are a crook,' Miller, R-Ohio, said on the House floor.   

'My colleague wants to come up here, call me a crook,' Santos said. 'The same colleague who's accused of being a woman beater. Are we really going to ignore the facts that we all have pasts?' 

He was referencing claims made by Miller's ex-girlfriend Stephanie Grisham. The pair dated while Miller was an aide to former President Donald Trump and Grisham was former First Lady Melania's spokeswoman. She briefly worked as Trump's press secretary as well. 

Sources close to Grisham have claimed that Miller slapped her after she accused him of cheating on her. 

The pair were believed to have been together for 18 months and even got a French bulldog named Gus, before the situation is believed to have turned sour.

Miller was dating Grisham in April 2020 when she confronted him in his Washington DC condo, accusing him of cheating on her, sources told Politico.

Three unnamed sources cited by Politico claim he pushed her against a wall, slapped her and threw a dog-toy tennis ball at her.

The report also claims he tried to grab her in the elevator when she was trying to leave.

He has strenuously denied it, Grisham did not comment and the incident is not thought to have been reported to the police.

But according to Politico, it is one of a series of incidents that raise questions about Miller's past.

'Miller pushed her. He slapped her. She fled. The temperatures that evening dipped into the 40s, and Grisham left with no coat, only her purse,' the report reads.

He denied it but the unnamed sources insisted it was true.

Grisham has also accused Miller of taking the French bulldog he got her as a present and keeping it as his own after the breakup.  

'It happened. It was violent and it was hard for her,' said one of the sources - described as being someone 'very close' to Grisham, but not in the White House,

Meanwhile Santos has remained defiant til the very end, refusing to resign ahead of his own expulsion vote. 'If I leave, they win,' he reasoned. 

The 35-year-old freshman member called his expulsion and the report 'theater for the American people at the expense of the American people because no real work's getting done.' 

Santos survived a vote to expel him earlier this month because 31 Democrats and most Republicans voted to keep him, many of them saying they would rather wait until an Ethics Committee report came out detailing his wrongdoings.

That report has now been made public, finding Santos used campaign money and donations to fund a lavish lifestyle, engaged in fraud, filed false election reports and 'willfully' violated ethics.

 It's the fifth time Congress has moved to expel its members. It's the first time a member has been expelled without conviction or supporting the Confederacy during Civil War times.

Separately, Santos has already pleaded not guilty to 23 charges in federal court, including identity theft, charging his donors' credit cards without their approval and submitting false campaign reports. 

He is not expected to face a trial until next September. 

The Ethics Committee said two charges of $1,500 and one $1,400 on the congressman's campaign debit card, which were not submitted to the FEC, were listed as 'Botox'. 

The report notes another $20,000 transfer from the campaign to Santos' company Devolder, whose account had a negative balance at the time. From there, money was used to make $6,000 worth of purchases at Ferragamo, withdraw $800 in cash at a casino, withdraw another $1,000 in cash near Santos' apartment, and to pay his rent.

The report found Santos also received repayments to his personal account for money he had never loaned to the campaign. 

He inflated over six personal loans he made to the campaign - which in reality totaled $3,500 but he had claimed would total as much as $80,000. 

In announcing he would not run again but would remain in Congress through the end of his term, Santos posted on X: 'My family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time.'