Liar-elect George Santos
“Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.” – George Costanza, Seinfeld.
In a Republican Party filled with liars, clowns, and fools, George Santos has hit the ground running.
Santos is a newly elected Congressman from New York who, it turns out, hasn’t been telling the truth about himself. Some may call them embellishments. I call them bald-faced lies. You can be the judge.
*He falsely claimed that he worked for the financial firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Now he says he worked for them through his company. Santos called this a “poor choice of words.”
*He said he had degrees from Baruch College and New York University, when in reality he has never graduated from any college or university.
*He claimed his grandparents “survived the Holocaust” as Ukrainian Jewish refugees from Belgium who changed their surname. He has said he was “very proud” of his “Jewish heritage.” But sources, including family trees compiled by genealogy websites, records on Jewish refugees, and interviews with multiple genealogists, contradicted this, CNN reported.
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the New York Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
Musings of a Nobody 