“George Santos Claims He Received Gold on the ’76 Olympics.” “George Santos Says He Found the Treatment for Polio.” “George Santos Advised Voter He Fought within the Revolutionary Struggle.” In the event you opened up the web immediately and noticed any of those headlines, at The New York Occasions, or BuzzFeed, or anyplace else, you most likely wouldn‘t be shocked. As a result of that’s the place we’re within the George Santos story arc. First, it was revealed the newly elected congressman had lied about the place he went to high school and the businesses he labored for; now, on a near-daily foundation, it comes out that Santos—who has defiantly refused to resign—has not solely apparently lied about his biography and résumé however engaged in deeply sinister, probably prison habits. And in response, Republicans in Washington have rewarded him with precise positions of energy.
Anyway, because it’s clear the following two years can be spent frequently studying that the consultant from New York has mainly by no means instructed the reality about something, and ripped off a complete bunch of individuals within the course of, it appears vital to maintain a operating tally of his most ridiculous lies and deceptions. As Santos is clearly one of many shadiest folks to ever be elected to Congress—which, given the individuals who have been elected to Congress, is saying one thing—it can undoubtedly be up to date, doubtlessly by the hour.
Grandparents fled the Holocaust
Is there something extra vile, f–ked up, and shameless than claiming you had relations who have been hunted by Hitler as he systemically murdered 6 million folks? Don’t ask Santos that, as a result of he would clearly view the query as a problem. In 2021, the then candidate mentioned in a campaign video that his “grandparents survived the Holocaust.” A number of months later, talking with the Jewish Information Syndicate, he mentioned, “I’m very pleased with my grandparents’ story,” which he claimed included “fleeing Hitler.” Chatting with Fox Information Digital, Santos, maybe girding himself for getting caught in a lie, declared: “For lots of people who’re descendants of World Struggle II refugees or survivors of the Holocaust, numerous names and paperwork have been modified in identify of survival.” Nonetheless, that doesn’t, in truth, look like the case for Santos’s household. In line with genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who spoke to CNN, “There’s no signal of Jewish and/or Ukrainian heritage and no indication of identify adjustments alongside the way in which.” In the meantime, in accordance with CNN, a number of family tree data point out that his grandparents have been born in Brazil.
His mom died on account of 9/11
Santos’s marketing campaign web site claimed that his mom “was in her workplace within the South Tower on September 11,” including that she “handed away just a few years later when she misplaced her battle to most cancers.” On July 12, 2021, he wrote on Twitter: “9/11 claimed my moms life.” Whereas there have clearly been many individuals who’ve died on account of the poisonous particles they inhaled on 9/11, NBC Information notes that though Santos has claimed his mom was a monetary government, “public employment data present just one employer for Santos’ mom: Imports by Rose, an organization based mostly in Queens that shuttered in 1994.” There’s additionally the awkward matter of paperwork indicating she was in Brazil on the day of the assaults.
Volleyball star
One of many first lies Santos obtained caught in was claiming he had graduated from Baruch School with levels in economics and finance in 2010, a school he didn’t even attend. Objectively even funnier? The truth that Santos reportedly instructed a number of those that he was the “star” of the Baruch volleyball staff.
Extremely, Santos went into even higher element than that, saying in a 2020 radio interview that he:
- Attended Baruch on a volleyball scholarship
- Was a part of the staff that “slayed” Yale and Harvard
- May have performed basketball however went with volleyball as a result of “it was simpler”
- “Sacrificed each…knees” and “obtained very good knee replacements…from taking part in volleyball” as a result of “that’s how severe I took the sport”
Throughout the identical interview, he additionally instructed the host: “We have been champions throughout the complete Northeast Hall. Each college that got here up in opposition to us, they have been shaking on the time. And it’s humorous. I used to be the smallest man and I’m 6 [feet] 2.” Naturally, in accordance with the New York Submit, the Baruch males’s volleyball staff “by no means performed Yale throughout the interval Santos claimed to have attended college there.”
