The list of lies is longer than that.
This one is more comprehensive- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/guide-george-santos-lies.html
You always know politicians are crooked, but this is just staggeringly incompetent.
Reasons given for this fraud’s election: Democratic National Congressional Committee failure, Corporate News (NYT) failure.
Reasons NOT given for this fraud’s election: republiQan voters.
HMMMMM. Seriously, wtf guardian? Are you actually unaware of the very root cause of this man’s disgraceful presence in government? Because I don’t think you are.
Yet you’ve managed a twenty-plus-paragraph recap of his bizarre story without even suggesting republiQans did this because of some viral electoral disease which, coincidentally, continues to threaten the nation every day in local, state, and federal agencies.
You realize by omitting that information you are perpetuating the disease, yes? Would you like more information about the obvious reality of which you pretend to be so unaware?
To be fair guardian is British, no?
Yes it is. But that should have zero bearing on reporting the facts.
If ever there was a sign of a completely defunct government, this is it. Dude fabricated a persona, history, identity or whatever you wanna call it, ran for office, got elected, got found out and still in office. Still in fuckin office.
Will he still get free health care for life as a former congressman if he is expelled?
I hope he gets free nut kickings for life
Free? They should bill him for it.
I'd apply for that position
Still convinced he's just doing performance art
Still convinced he’s mentally ill like so many other republicans.
a bit
lmao
Yeah, that struck me too. He's a whole fucking circus
That's becoming increasingly common in US politics.
Is there any proof that he's not actually an alien living in a CIA agents attic in Northern Virginia?
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The New York fabulist accomplished practically nothing in his political career, just self-promotion through sheer chutzpah
In a way, George Santos is one of the great success stories of American politics.
The New York congressman is not responsible for exceptional legislative achievements. His brief tenure in Congress will not be held up as a success story for students of political history.
Santos’s accomplishment has instead been to win election by weaving a staggering, barely believable web of lies, deception and deceit that is surely unmatched in the modern age.
That wave of fabrication helped Santos win election in November 2022. But a year later, the 35-year-old has been charged with 23 federal crimes, and while he has managed to cling on to his seat in the House of Representatives, he could find himself booted out of there when Congress returns to DC next week.
The list of Santos’s lies bears digging into.
While he was running for Congress, Santos lied about almost everything that had ever happened to him. Sometimes it was to embellish his résumé and make himself appear more electable, but frequently, and fascinatingly, he lied for no reason at all, about things of zero consequence to his political career.
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