Posted on 12/26/2022 3:35:30 PM PST by RandFan
Long Island Rep.-elect George Santos came clean to The Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience — but insisting that the controversy won’t deter him from serving out his two-year term in Congress.
“I am not a criminal,” Santos said at one point during his exclusive interview. “This [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.”
Santos’s professional biography was called into question earlier this month after the New York Times reported that he misrepresented a number of claims, including where he attended college and his alleged employment history with high-profile Wall Street firms.
Santos confessed Monday that he had “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, chalking that fib up to a “poor choice of words,”
The 34-year-old now claims instead that a company he worked for, Link Bridge, did business with both of the financial giants.
He also admitted that he never graduated from any college, despite previously claiming to have received a degree from Baruch in 2010.
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Santos now says that he’s “clearly Catholic,” but claimed his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.
Santos, the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to the House, also faced accusations that he lied about his sexual orientation, with the Daily Beast reporting that he was previously married to a woman until 2020.
He confirmed to the Post on Monday that he was indeed married to a woman for about five years, but that he is now a happily married gay man.
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I’m old enough to remember when the New York Times didn’t have a problem with Congressional throuples...
Gosh, ya think he lied about being a conservative also?
Does he have any background working for ANY 3 Letter Government Agency?
Democrat ran as Republican and won. Story at 11.
It still leaves an OPEN QUESTION: With the Billions of dollars that the Democrats have, why did they allow this guy’s hidden history to stay hidden?
That’s what I’m most interested in.
He’s clearly in the wrong political party.
by lying he kinda stole the election, no?
Has anybody checked if he married his sister to get into the country? That doesn’t seem to count anymore.
is this Peter King’s replacement? Explains a few things
Second, he's a RINO who will advance the progressive agenda.
Third, they can disable him, make him ineffective, any time they want, should he begin to show signs of actual conservative leaning.
A oft used strategy of the Dems is to run a stealth candidate in a republican district. Looks like they got one one in here.
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Thank you!
Seeing a MSM “Investigation” is like seeing Bigfoot in a UFO.
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“First, he’s obviously one of theirs.”
Hmmm, I know they’re now embedding themselves in other positions - for example, they managed to take over the Texas State Board of Education, which is why we never hear about “Textbook Wars” anymore, and they managed to also take control of the Texas Supreme Court, as some of their rulings are right out of the Democrat playbook, despite being 9-0 Republican.
But didn’t know they’re embedding in Congress now...but not surprised.
Hey! Only democrats are allowed to do that!
Years ago, I would have cared. I would have been outraged. Now? meh! Who cares?
The Democratic Party at the state level in New York is breathtakingly stupid and incompetent. For many years it has all been about individuals protecting their own power. Andy Cuomo was the epitome of that, as he actually fought to help keep the state senate in Republican hands for a long time because an all-Democrat state legislature would make him less powerful. I don’t think this guy is a stealth Democrat—that is giving the party too much credit.
Actually, it’s kind of a pleasant departure from the norm for a pol to admit to being a liar before getting sworn in to congress instead of watching how he votes to find out he was a liar all along
I’d consider him to be an honest man
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