By now, everyone has heard the story of Congressman-elect George Santos (NY-3), who has admitted to telling a host of blatant lies about his education, employment, and even ethnic and religious backgrounds during his campaign. Santos’s “embellishments” as he called them include claiming that he attended Baruch College and NYU, that he had worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, that he founded and ran a charity that the IRS has no record of, that he was a “proud American Jew” whose ancestors had escaped the Holocaust, and perhaps most disgustingly, that he was directly affected by the tragic mass murder at Pulse Nightclub and lost employees there.
Santos’ deception may not have stopped there. He claimed he earned a salary of $750,000 and up to $5 million as owner of Devolder Organization but failed to disclose client information, and Nassau County prosecutors have opened an investigation into Santos.
Even some Republicans have started to condemn Santos’s lies. And yet, Santos is not an aberration for the modern, MAGA-controlled Republican Party, but the opposite: a poster child for its fundamental belief in winning over probity and honor.
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