Man, oh man, George Santos is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now, come to find out, he lied to donors and said that he was one of the producers of the Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark.
So, he's now been caught lying about:
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His actual name (he has at least 5-6 aliases, e.g., Anthony Santos, George Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky and George Anthony Santos-Devolder, and Anthony Devolder).
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Faking a Jewish heritage (He's not Jewish; he now claims only to be "Jew-ish").
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Claiming his grandparents fled the Holocaust (They did not).
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Claiming his grandparents were from the Ukraine (They were born and raised in Brazil).
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Claiming his mother was the first female executive at a financial institution (She was a cleaning lady and nurse).
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Claiming his mother was in the South Tower of the Twin Towers on 9/11 (She was verifiably in Brazil at the time).
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Claiming his mother died of 9/11 induced breast cancer a couple years after 9/11 (She died in 2016).
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His early education (He never went to Horace Mann for prep school).
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His college education (He never went to Baruch College or any other college. He has no college-level degree).
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Being a volleyball champion while at Baruch College (He never went there; he never played there).
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That he worked for Goldman Sachs (They'd never heard of him).
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That he worked for Citigroup (They'd never heard of him).
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That he never committed a crime (Brazil has reopened its case involving him having stolen his mother's patients' checkbooks, now that Brazil can locate him in the US).
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That he's the survivor of an assassination attempt (No record has been produced that supports someone having tried to kill him).
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That four of his employees had died in the Pulse Nightclub shooting (He couldn't name a single victim and has since retracted this lie).
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That he did not perform as a drag queen named Kitara while in Brazil (The LGBTQ community in Brazil has come forward with photographic and video records of him performing drag).
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Claims to have ran an official animal charity called Friends of Pets United (No such charitable organization has been registered anywhere).
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As an unofficial charity, Santos (via Friends of Pets United) swindled a US veteran out of at least $3,000 in a GoFundMe scam set up to raise money to pay for surgery for the veteran's aide dog (Records of the GoFundMe account exist and GoFundMe reports that Santos email addresses have been banned by their service).
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He claims to have survived having a brain tumor (Yet no one recalls him ever being sick).
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He claims his family is rich because of real estate holdings (No one can locate any real estate holdings for his family. The only property other than his current residence reported to be owned by Santos on his financial disclosures is an apartment in Rio).
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He claimed that his campaign was funded by a $700,000 loan from himself (His attorneys have amended his election disclosures to withdraw this loan claim; however, where the money came from since it wasn't a personal loan has not been explained. He's under FEC investigation now).
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He worked at Harbor City Capital, which was declared a Ponzi Scheme by the SEC (And yet he demanded that Republicans seat him on a financial committee in Congress, which thankfully they refused).
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He has ties to Russian oligarchs, mobsters, and human traffickers.
If McCarthy had been telling the truth when he said that he wasn't going to seat certain people on committees because "integrity matters," then he should never have seated Santos on TWO committees. Yes, Santos has "voluntarily" stepped down from his committees, but that's likely because they took him into the backroom and explained to him that he's going to lose them anyway the moment he's under Federal indictment. If he didn't step down now, they weren't going to help him then when that happens.
Frankly, I think the GOP just wishes that he'd sit the fuck down and never say another word for the next two years.
