Did George Santos coin the well-known phrase about nothing on this world being sure “besides loss of life and taxes”? No! In fact not! However at this level within the Santos saga, it will (1) be under no circumstances shocking to study he had advised individuals he did and (2) be affordable to amend the phrase to “Nothing is for certain besides loss of life, taxes, and George Santos mendacity his ass off about one thing.”
Immediately that “one thing” is definitely a number of somethings, they usually come courtesy of an interview Santos did in December with reporter João Batista Jr. and writer-translator Flora Thomson-DeVeaux for Brazil’s Rádio Novelo Apresenta podcast. In response to Thomson-DeVeaux, after the interview was carried out, she “let out a little scream of rage” over the various lies Santos clearly tried to get previous them, and knowledgeable Batista Jr. that there was “no approach” they had been “giving this man a platform.” Quick-forward a pair months, they usually determined—in mild of it being revealed that Santos is a pathological liar—to share it with the world.
Along with the now well-known lies about his having labored for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, Santos additionally advised Batista Jr. and Thomson-DeVeaux:
- That he was so independently rich that he could be donating his total congressional wage to 4 unnamed NGOs. (When requested in regards to the supply of his wealth, he responded: “Indiscreet query. Let’s simply say that we dwell comfortably these days.”)
- That “there are a complete of 300 drag exhibits per day in New York Metropolis faculties.” (Curiously, his reported participation in at the very least one drag present didn’t come up.)
- That 20,000 New York girls had gotten “on-demand” abortions of their third trimester in 2021. (Per Batista Jr., the variety of late-term abortions within the state is probably going nearer to 1,000.)
- That in the summertime of 2021, he walked out of a constructing on the nook of Fifth Avenue and fifty fifth Avenue and—“at three within the afternoon,” i.e., in broad daylight—was mugged by two males who took his briefcase, watch, and footwear earlier than fleeing the scene with out the police or anybody else on the road noticing. (For these unfamiliar with the scene of the alleged crime, Fifth Avenue—and significantly that nook of fifty fifth Avenue—is without doubt one of the busiest spots in New York. As Batista Jr. factors out, “each three hours, 27,000 pedestrians cross the block between 54th and fifty fifth St., which is residence to the five-star resort The Peninsula and the posh jewelers Harry Winston and Breguet. As if that weren’t sufficient, New York is without doubt one of the most closely surveilled cities on the earth: There are 25,500 safety cameras watching over squares, streets, and avenues, counting units arrange in private and non-private areas.”) Naturally, Santos has but to offer a requested police report. For these of you maintaining at residence, Santos has now claimed to have been mugged on at the very least two separate events, the opposite one being when he was supposedly robbed in Queens on his solution to ship a examine for again lease. And earlier than you ask, no, he has not supplied a police report for that incident both (and the NYPD advised Gothamist there was “nothing on file”).
- That he was the goal of an “assassination try.” Sure, an assassination try! Sayeth Santos: “We’ve got already suffered an try on my life, an assassination try, a threatening letter, having to have the police, a police escort standing in entrance of our home.” This specific declare, in addition to the one in regards to the Fifth Avenue mugging, made Rachel Maddow’s present on Monday night time:
