I, I, I. What does “I” or “me” even imply, coming from George Santos? If all the things voters find out about a candidate aside from his celebration affiliation is a lie, have been they actually voting for him? In a darkish pink district, the celebration affiliation might be all that issues, however in swingy NY-03, not a lot. Voters elected a man descended from Holocaust survivors, with a level from Baruch School, a profession within the finance business, a pet rescue charity, and a major actual property portfolio. They acquired a man not descended from Holocaust survivors, with no faculty diploma, current employment at a Ponzi scheme, no pet rescue charity, and never solely no actual property portfolio however a file of evictions. Can Santos in any significant method declare voters elected him, the particular person he truly is?
Then once more, saying “voters elected me” on questionable grounds is much from essentially the most blatant lie he’s advised, so after all he’s not self-conscious about making the declare.
The truth is, what we find out about Santos’ lies continues, unbelievably, to develop. On the time of the unique New York Occasions report on his basically faux identification, it didn’t appear to be there might probably be a lot left to uncover. And but each couple of days there’s a brand new revelation. That Santos didn’t truly attend Baruch School, as he claimed, is previous information. That he advised the chair of the Nassau County GOP that he was a volleyball star at Baruch is new. Not only a star—one who led the crew to a “league championship.” On the faculty he was mendacity about having attended.
Throughout Santos’ time in Brazil greater than a decade in the past, essentially the most important lie we all know of that Santos advised was the prison one, wherein he fraudulently used checks belonging to a deceased former affected person of his mom’s. That wasn’t a victimless crime. Mother Jones reports {that a} retailer clerk who accepted Santos’ fraudulent checks needed to pay again greater than $1,300 to cowl what Santos stole. However Santos’ lies in Brazil are nonetheless coming to gentle, with a tv present now reporting that Santos used a number of completely different names and nationalities on courting apps within the nation. Whereas Santos can legitimately declare two nationalities—Brazilian and U.S.—there’s no credible proof that he’s Russian, which he additionally claimed.
Voters have an inexpensive expectation that biographical data from a significant celebration nominee for Congress is extra dependable than biographical data from some rando on a courting web site, however this highlights that Santos didn’t simply begin mendacity to get elected to Congress. He’s a longtime prolific liar who doesn’t simply lie for enjoyable. He lies to get issues from folks. However getting elected to Congress was most likely the largest factor he’s gotten from his lies—and there’s little question that it was his lies that made him seem like a critical candidate.
However regardless of all this, Santos will preserve the help of Home Republican management as a result of they want him an excessive amount of to do the suitable factor. On Wednesday, McCarthy chimed in with a “however the voters” message much like Santos’ tweet, telling reporters, “He has to reply to the voters”—one thing that conveniently will not occur for practically two years—and “it is the voters who made that call he has to reply to the voters, and the voters get to make one other choice in two years.” And Kevin McCarthy just isn’t worrying about two years from now. He’s making an attempt to outlive everyday with a slender Republican majority and substantial inside opposition.
Santos is under criminal investigation by federal and native prosecutors, so we could but get to see whether or not McCarthy will stick by him via prison expenses on this nation along with those excellent in Brazil. And actually, I wouldn’t wager towards it.
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