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If only there was a way we could bury this guy under the jail. Instead, he’s going to serve in congress. What a country.
Every single one of those lies is a huge red flag. But the lie that his mother was killed on 9/11 is next level despicable. I wonder if MTG will keep righteously defending this guy after the rest of the lies are exposed. Cus you know they’re coming. >

He's more of a pathological liar than Trump.
Trump told three different lies about 9/11: that he went to the site to offer assistance to the responders, that he looked out his window and saw Muslims celebrating, and he now had the tallest building in New York.
Trump, at least, didn't try to rewrite his entire family history. He even acknowledges his older brother died of addiction. 
If the Republicans don't have George Santos removed, they're going to have a guy who tells a different story at every turn. He's not going to fall in line. >

I predict that the RNC leadership will have a private sitdown with him and explain to him that he's going to do exactly as he's told by them, vote the way they tell him, show up or not when they tell him, and in all ways be exactly their tool and nothing more. He'll smile and do it because he'll be making $174K/year with generous perks for two years and the Republican-dominated House will make sure nobody in Congress can touch him. They'll also run interference to fight outside attempts to get him out. They'll do everything to protect him, and he'll be their tool.
The only hope might be prosecution on what appears to be money laundering/fraud WRT his money that appeared seemingly out of nowhere, which another redditor things is related to a ponzi scheme he apparently may have been a part of. Even then, I'm not even sure that anyone but the rest of the House can actually unseat him, so he may end up being a Congressman who sits out his term in prison. >

Here's the thing:
You can't fix a compulsive liar. They have an innate compulsion to lie.
It's not a bad habit thing. It's a something is broken in the brain thing. >

I don't think he's a compulsive liar, I think he's a pure grifter, a conman. I think that there's probably a fair chance he didn't think he was going to catch the car he was chasing, and was hoping to lose and finish laundering the money he may have stolen through the Ponzi scheme, or it may turn out he did intend to win and was bankrolled by the Russians. It's going to take a lot of investigation to peel the onion of who he really is and where his money really came from, and my money is that the House Republicans will run interference for him every step of the way. Hell, they may be able to drag things out for two years, in which case the attempt to get him out of office will wind up as pointless as the attempt to subpoena Trump turned out to be. >

A grifter wouldn't feel the need to go to the extremes in every aspect like this guy has. It would be unnecessary effort. 
The best lies are built on a kernel of truth. This guy built an entire house of straw. >

I didn't say he was a good grifter, lol. This appears to be his second major grift, the first being when he stole checks from the elderly man he was helping care for and used the stolen checks to buy fancy shoes for a boyfriend back in Brazil. >

He didn't cash them, he traded the checks with a forged endorsement to the shop owner for the shoes. The shop owner tried to cash them and got caught trying to cash fraudulent checks, meanwhile Santos had the shoes and gave them to his boyfriend. The shop owner filed a report with the local police, and apparently that's when Santos fled. >

Here's the list - it's insane he can still be seated after all of this.
Graduated from college: Nope!
Worked for Goldman Sachs & Citigroup: Nope!
Family owned properties: Nope!
Descendent of Holocaust Survivors: Nope!
Openly gay, claims to now be married to a man: Maybe, there are no records to support this?
Biracial (Caucasian & Black): Maybe? But considering the next one, probably not. 
Mother killed on 9/11: Nope! Died in 2016
Brain Tumor / health issues: No records to support
Lost 4 employees in Pulse shooting: Nope!
Founded a Charitable foundation: Nope! >

I would pay $100 to any man who will confess to having sex with him at anytime in history. >

I'll confess to it. It'd be a lie but 100 bucks is 100 bucks. Just send my check to St. Jude's. >

Hey, I could really use 100 bucks. Can I go have sex with him now or must the sex be retroactive? >

If you bed George Santos, I will give you and Saint Jude $100. >

As long as they don't determine that he's actually a liberal, the GOP doesn't care who he is. >

Or in McCarthy’s disgusting case, as long as he votes for me to be speaker. >

Watch him gain one vote and lose more over this.  That would be poetic justice. >

Missing from the list:
Claims to be gay and having been gay for a long time. He divorced his wife before going into politics. Doesn’t mean he hasn’t been gay for a long time, but he hasn’t clarified why he was married to a woman. 
Claims made to Tulsi Gabbard that most Americans would not understand the work that he did for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He hasn’t even tried to explain. 
Claims that he made $50k per year a couple of years ago and had no assets. In the last two years he made enough money to lend hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign. How?
Claims that he made a lot of money through the Devolder company, a corporation that has no web presence, no known clients, and might not even exist. >

A guy like him is single? Imagine that!
In all seriousness though it was fun to watch him squirm as Tulsi basically kicked his ass in that interview which I’m sure he expected to be a cakewalk. >

It was FoxNews. He expected a cakewalk. And Tulsi wasn’t too hard on him. Just hard enough to make him squirm a little. Not squeeze him dry. >

I don’t know if he’s just that arrogant or if he thought…with all that’s going on in the country…he’s going to lie about all these things and nobody’s going to question it. Or he’s been doing this his whole life and up until now he’s never been caught. 
I’ve known people like this at work and there are patterns. But even still…there are younger and better con artists every day out there who are really good if they know their audience. This guy wasn’t that good; it was more like the folks who were doing the fact-checking didn’t get to him on time. I think. >

The root problem is that no one was fact checking him.  News organizations don’t care about local political races, even for Congress, unless they already know there’s a story.  Local political candidate lied in his bio is not a good enough story for the editors to assign their limited resources on.
Edit: which is to say that we really need more local journalists to look into local politics and politicians.  Unfortunately, nobody is paying for that, so we all end up paying for it in the end. >

There's a LIST now? Oy vey... >

you must be jew-ish too. >

And ga-y >

Homer Simpson: "...so far" >

Exactly, not to even remotely attempt to give him a pass, but this is bordering on mental illness as opposed to being the run of a mill bullshitter, same as TFG. >

Pathological is the right word for it.  It's bizarre to watch.
There was a great quote from the 80's from someone who knew Trump in the NYC social scene that went "if you ask Donald Trump for the time he'd lie, just for the practice." >

Seems the republican party really wants their base to lose faith in this country. >

Envious of the Democrats success with identity politics, the Republicans have taken up assumed identity politics. >

His democrat opponent is also gay. After the Hershel fiasco, this is starting to look like an organized tactic. >

The funniest part. “He claims to own 13 properties. He lives with his sister.” >


Santos is the "first openly-gay Republican elected to Congress," according to his official website. However, a Daily Beast investigation found Santos had previously been married to a woman between 2012 and 2017, which he did not publicly disclose. Santos confirmed this to the New York Post, but insisted he is "very much gay." He said: "I dated women in the past. I married a woman. It's personal stuff. "I'm very much gay. I'm OK with my sexuality. People change. I'm one of those people who change."

Let us help you out here, George--"I'm very much gay-ish" >

They need to get rid of him. GOP is continuing to make our country look like a joke on the world stage. >


"I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was 'Jew-ish.'" >

For the record, this is also a lie, his maternal family is Catholic. Source >

I am just slowly shaking my head as I read more about these lies. >

LOL Congrats on your Wikipedia page, George! Or should I say Anthony Zabrovsky? >

This might be the only true and most hilarious fact in that article:
"From October 2011 to July 2012, Santos worked as a customer service representative at a call center for Dish Network.... "
I can't think of a job I would hate more. >

my first job was a call center for a mail-order costume jewelry company and had to field calls from upset elderly people that got spammed with those mailings in the 90's that said shit like "YOU HAVE WON $65,000!!!!! (is what we will say if you enter and win our annual sweepstakes)" It was absolute rank hell. >

I had a job at one of those companies that sell local coupon books over the phone, cold calling random local numbers, we just started with the local prefix and then called those 9999 numbers, the whole spiel is we were calling from the radio station and they won a chance to get all these fabulous coupons, for $60. If we we got a sale we sent a delivery person immediately to deliver the book and collect the money. No cubicles, just folding tables so it was kinda miserable overhearing everyone's calls, manual dialing. There was a whiteboard that tallied everyone's sales. These were the good old days when you could still smoke inside so it was everyone chain smoking all day. 
I know pretty much all call center jobs suck but Dish Network has gotta be among the worst, I had dish network for a couple years and whenever I called it was for a complaint and the way they are instructed them to retain customers you literally have to yell at them. 
I also worked in remodeling call centers and usually they don't stop calling for remodeling, they just do it in sections. It's just these people repeating the same script all day. It's embarrassing to witness some supervisor lecture the caller for not making enough sales. I will never work in a call center again. I don't know if covid has had any effect on call centers. >

I’m interested to see how the parasitic right will try to excuse him lying about his mother dying in 9/11. >

He’s set to take the oath of office.
Oath
Why TF should he be allowed to take a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution if everything that got him to that oath was untruthful?! >

Yup. >

How is this not fraud? He gained a thing of value through willful deception. >

His real name is Art Vandelay and he's an importer/exporter. >

he's like a real life "Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" >

Barring a 2nd successful run for president this will be the legacy of Trump. People have said for generations that politicians will lie, cheat, and steal their way to office but they had to at least keep up appearances of being on the side of the people. Now it's all out in the open and one side does not care as long as they have that R next to their name. Every election you'll see "Vote blue no matter who!" but the other side does the exact same thing and this is where it's gotten them. 
We need better vetted candidates on both sides and a way to enforce ethics after elections. The 2/3 vote requirement is useless when one party is completely lock step in line with each other no matter what. If this asshat was a Dem, I hope, he'd be dragged out kicking and screaming much less given the chance to step down like Franken. >

They know that they will face no reprisals absent violence and they know that their opposition will not employ violence against them. >

He is that troll in the comments that makes shit up to pretend he can one up in the conversation. >

What a fucking weirdo >

...and his wife... Morgan Fairchild. Yeah. That's the ticket. >

Donald Trump paved the way for this shit. >

Guess we won’t have to worry about any sex scandals with this guy. Who the hell would want him? 
Spitting image of Sarah Huckabee Sanders with the sex appeal of Ted Cruz & the shape of Mike Lee. >

Nice!    Shoot Low, they may be crawling! >

I don’t know how one goes through attempting to and attaining a pretty prestigious position and lies all about themselves as though the public would not find out it’s all bullshit >

I had a childhood friend that I grew apart from through middle:high school, partly because he fucking always was cheating and lying right to my face about stupid shit. Like saying his family owned three houses in the neighborhood and fucking never would point them out or would point to some random house that clearly no one was home at (or cheating heavily in board games). He left my school and would like come back wearing rugby clothes from his new school and turned out the school didn’t even have rugby. Come to find out he roomed with another buddy of mine from high school, stole and sold a bunch of his shit (said the house was broken into), never paid rent and just disappeared. George Santos is this but hasn’t gotten caught until now (probably from hiding through social media). >

What is bothersome are the folks who pretend to be 'moderate' or 'independent' but are really shilling for Conservatives and the GOP when they look at this and say "bUt ElIzAbEtH wArReN!" and other garbage meant to distract from the dumpster fire that is Santos.
They try to equivocate other politicians single misstatements or lies with this man making up an entire false life story and history and getting elected based on it. >

If you add up all these lies from these dozens of Democrats you get something that sort of resembles some of the stuff that Santos did, so whatabout that!? >

Approaching from the other angle, have any of his claims been bunked? >

I'm thinking the brain tumor claim might be real. >

*So far.