George Santos has already disgraced himself fifty times over, so it's not like anyone expects anything more of him these days.

But this isn't so much disgraceful as it is, well, really weird:

Rep. George Santos' lawyer said Monday the indicted New York Republican would risk going to jail to protect the identities of the people who cosigned the $500,000 bond enabling his pretrial release.

The lawyer, Joseph Murray, urged a judge to deny a request by news outlets to unseal the names of Santos' bond suretors, or guarantors, suggesting they could "suffer great distress," including possible job losses and physical harm, if they're identified publicly.

Yeaaah somehow I doubt that's all that's in play here.

Santos appears to be a very weird, very unseemly, very compromised fellow. His professional and personal track records seem to be filled with nothing but shady dealings, bizarre grifts and sleight-of-hand.

Somehow I can't imagine a guy like that has very respectable guarantors. If someone's (a) willing to go to bat for this guy, and (b) so loaded that they can post $500k on bail at the drop of a hat, well, look, if these people ended up being creeps just like Santos, I wouldn't be surprised one bit.

Santos himself, meanwhile, is facing "a 13-count indictment charging that he duped donors, stole from his campaign, lied to Congress about being a millionaire and cheated to collect unemployment benefits he didn't deserve."

A weird and stupid story that only keeps getting weirder and stupider.