A Long Island crowd booed George Santos after he tried to pivot from his criminal charges to complain about Hunter Biden

• Long Islanders booed Rep. George Santos after he tried to deflect from the charges against him.
• Santos pivoted to allegations against the Bidens, displeasing a crowd gathered outside the court.

Rep. George Santos was booed by a Long Island crowd on Wednesday after he tried to deflect from the newly-filed criminal charges against him by dumping on the Bidens.

The embattled GOP congressman called the federal charges of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and false statements against him a "witch hunt" following his release on $500,000 bond after he surrendered to law enforcement at a Long Island courthouse.

"The reality is, it's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months, I'm indicted," Santos told a crowd of reporters and onlookers.

Santos then pivoted to allegations against President Joe Biden's family.

"You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine, nine family members receiving money from foreign, from foreign destinations into their bank accounts," Santos said amid loud boos from the crowd. "It's been years of exposing. A lot of you here have reported on them and yet no investigation is launched into them."

Santos, who pleaded not guilty to all 13 federal counts against him, went on to say that he will "fight" back the charges.

"I'm going to fight my battle. I'm going to deliver. I'm going to fight the witch hunt. I'm going to take care of clearing my name and I look forward to doing that," Santos said.

If convicted of the top counts, Santos could face up to 20 years in prison.