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  This guy is a scum bag. I'll be so happy watching U.S. marshals cuff this guy and stuff him onto a jet headed for Brazil.
context: In other news, McCarthy awarded George Santos for his loyalty to the GOP by giving him seats on the Science and Small Business committees. 
  
  Santos will not, however, be assigned to the Ethics Committee, member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) told CNN with a chuckle Tuesday.
  
  Glad they can laugh about a guy that stole money from a US veteran's dying dog.
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  Edit:
  The hits just keep on coming. This guy is a real piece of work.
  Santos used fake Jewish name on GoFundMe because he thought 'Jews would give more' to him, says his former roommate. >
  
  They elected a guy to be president who stole from a children's cancer charity, so why should this matter to them? >
  
  This whole scenario reads like a goddamn Parks and Rec script. On one hand, fuck Trump. On the other, I kinda love it for how downright bizarre it is, and for the fact that nobody got hurt for once (which is usually a common theme in Trump stories). >
  
  i'm guessing Trump saw the developer as a competitor and pulled a fast one. Honestly it's hilarious. I mean Trump sucks 100% but this >
  
  I kinda think he just saw an opportunity to sit his ass in front of a camera and went for it. No plan, no thinking through it. Just stimulus -> response. The sheer brazenness of it might be admirable if it were literally anyone else. >
  
  Full Text:
  
  A U.S. Navy veteran in New Jersey seeking to save his beloved service dog from a life-threatening stomach tumor was connected with a man who called himself “Anthony Devolder,” who promised to raise the $3,000 required to pay for the animal’s surgery. In fact, Devolder was future New York Rep. 
  George Santos, and he quickly disappeared from the veteran’s life—with all the money he’d raised for the dog, according to a Tuesday report from Patch. The 47-year-old veteran, Richard Osthoff, told the New York outlet that Santos had closed the GoFundMe in 2016 after they fulfilled their fundraising goal “and then some.” 
  Michael Boll, the president of the New Jersey Veterans Network, confirmed the account, saying he attempted to mediate the situation, but that Santos had been “totally uncooperative on the phone.” 
  Though the GoFundMe page was deleted and The Daily Beast could find no archival record of it, contemporaneous Facebook posts written by Osthoff mention “Anthony Devolder,” a name by which many people, including Santos’ former roommates, knew him before he entered politics. 
  The dog, Sapphire, died in 2017. Osthoff, who had been out of work for over a year, later turned to panhandling to afford the animal’s euthanasia and cremation—“one of the most degrading things I ever had to do,” he said. >
  
  Ok there is a huge problem here:
  Why didn’t ANY of this come out during the campaign?  WTF is going on in New York?  Are democrats really THIS incompetent?  Like we know the Republicans don’t have a bottom to their depravity, but the Democrats offer America apparently a -5 defense? >
  
  If heads weren't going to roll after losing all those seats, they have to after this. I saw some of the big NY Republicans refused to even endorse Santos, how that didn't raise flags I don't know.
  Opposition research is especially powerful in states like New York, because voters will actually vote for the other guy with enough scandal, not like in say Georgia where Hershel Walker's scandals barely moved the needle at all. >
  
  Who is in charge of the NY Democratic Party? >
  
  George Santos. In fact, I believe he started the NY Democratic Party >
  
  If this is true it is actionable. Starting a GFM fundraiser and keeping the money is illegal. Prosecute this dipshit. >
  
  hopefully there's still proof available thru gofundme. >
  
  Anyone who donated probably has the email receipt from their donation >
  
  Thats illegal and morally repugnant. 
  The gop finds it endearing. >
  
  And here I thought Gaetz, Gosar, Gym Jordan, Greene, and Boebert, were the bottom of the GOP barrel. >
  
  There is no bottom of the barrel. If they keep going this way, they'll run a white supremacist with a swastika tattooed on his forehead who openly calls for killing in Jews/LGBTQ/etc and the GOP will claim that he's just expressing an "alternative view that the liberals want to cancel." >
  
  Followed by saying he has some nonspecific good ideas that we should be listening to (he has never expressed any other ideas), that we need to 'fight to save this country', 'put an end to woke', and other similar weasel-word versions of 'kill the libs'. >
  
  “I’ll grift you and your little dog too!” >
  
  Why did I read this with a voice of a witch. >
  
  Because it’s from the Wizard of Oz probably >
  
  That is the most moustache-twirling-cartoon-villain thing I've ever heard. >
  
  I would love to see people from the far right to some people on r/conservative defend this >
  
  I don't even want to try to imagine what kinda shit they'd come up with >
  
  "That dog was going to die anyway, it's better that the money be used to elect someone who will support our troops an- *massive fart noise*" >
  
  That sounds about right >
  
  At one point, Santos - who was then going by the name Anthony Devolder - told the dog's owner - a disabled, homeless veteran - that he was not allowed to go with the dog to vet appointments, because "we transports animals in need not needy owners."
  At first, I thought Santos was probably just a guy who told a bunch of lies to get himself going in politics, was surprised by how easy it ended up being, and got in way over his head. Now it's becoming clear he's a world-class scumbag and grifter, and I'm not sure we've learned the half of his real story. >
  
  At this point, I'm questioning what his real name is. We've heard George Santos, Anthony Devolder and a few other aliases. What's his actual real name? >
  
  Isn't this the part where Republicans ask to see the long-form birth certificate? >
  
  No no that's only for "the blacks" and/or democrats
  /s... Kind of? >
  
  Republicans. >
  
  If this kind of news keeps up he's gonna be Trump's VP pick.  Sorry, Marge! >
  
  I think there would be too much competition:
  No one has ever been treated worse than me, Obama spied on me and the FBI raided my retirement home!
  No, no one has been treated worse than me! My mom died on 9/11 and I lost both my knees winning volleyball. >
  
  "Obama spied on my through my microwave!!!" 
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  "Yeah well you know what? Obama had my underwear mic'd up!" >
  
  I'm low key awestruck by the absolute chutzpah it takes to live that life and think running for Congress is the next good idea. (Or maybe he was buoyed along by Putin as another corrosive force on American governance).
  Not awestruck in a good way, mind you. >
  
  Running for Congress as a Republican*
  Seriously makes me believe I could do it and just lie my way to office with an R next to my name