George Santos breaks silence amid mounting allegations he misrepresented his rsum

[nightwing1240]

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The Times report, published on Monday, found that Santos may have misled voters about his college graduation, his criminal and employment history, his family-owned business, his animal rescue charity and his relationship with four victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla.

Joseph Murray, an attorney for Santos, released a statement saying his client “represents the kind of progress that the Left is so threatened by — a gay, Latino, first-generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party.

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The statement — which ended with a quote erroneously attributed to Winston Churchill — did not directly address the allegations that appeared in the story in the Times.

Meanwhile, the Daily Beast reported Thursday that Santos, who was celebrated by the GOP as the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to Congress, “appears to be the subject of a previously unacknowledged Sept. 2019 divorce with a woman in Queens County, New York.”

Less than two weeks after his divorce was finalized, he filed the official paperwork to launch his unsuccessful 2020 congressional campaign, the Daily Beast said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santos-breaks-silence-allegations-misrepresented-biography-resume-205645344.html
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Damn, has this idiot lied about his sexual orientation too? Talk about a real loser.

*edited to include link

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I think we've got ourselves a keeper with this one

A reprehensible liar to be hung around the neck of repuQ leadership like a decomposing albatross long after his brief-ass term in Congress is over. The truth about this guy is still coming to light, so perhaps there’s something that will compel him to resign. A dream, I know…

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Hope he sticks around before resigning. We can cudgel republicans in general for silence on

Lies, in whatever form or persona. Remember Walker?

[OnDoutside]

2. On a certain level, it's really funny considering the massive amount of

Money spent in the 2022 cycle yet the most basic amount of oppo research wasn't done.

[SheltieLover]

5. Apparently opp research was done

Lapucelle posted about it late last night. I'll try to find link. She worked his opponent's campaign.

[SheltieLover]

6. Here is link. Dems published opp research in 08/22.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217489818

[pandr32]

3. Another conartist for the Republicans

They sure like to scrape the bottom for their up-and-comers.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The divorce papers might be revealing

"Honey, you just don't have what it takes."

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. A fair number of gay people do get married to someone of the opposite sex at some point

Many times it's an attempt to 'not be gay'. That ploy (obviously) rarely works out, especially nowadays when being openly gay is far more accepted that it was decades ago, so people feel a bit less pressure to 'conform'.

Sometimes they do so because they want biological kids, too.

Could also be that he's Bisexual, but didn't want to present that way because he thought it's easier to be elected as a gay man than as a bisexual one.

Not saying he's not lying about that too, it's certainly possible. But so is the opposite in this one aspect of his story.

[tanyev]

9. Of course he "erroneously attributed" a quote to Winston Churchill.

Santos appears to be incapable of not telling lies.

[Martin68]

10. "Santos...was celebrated by the GOP as the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to

Congress..." Interesting that the GOP celebrates black, gay, and female representatives if they are Republicans. If the area Democrats, not su much.

[nightwing1240]

11. yes, they only matter to them when it fit their interests

That is also why we are fighting for voting rights. A large number of minorities favor Democrats in elections.

[Midnight Writer]

12. How long before he claims to be a double-nought spy with a secret identity?

[SeattleVet]

13. Not enough work went into fabricating the cover story for this Manchurian candidate.

They came out with way too many things that are very easy to check and verify, especially now that we all have pretty high-level search capabilities on massive amounts of data.