Newly elected GOP congressman (NY) appears to have lied about ... EVERYTHING

[Pens1566]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html?smid=url-share

So, how exactly does one lie about this amount of information and no one catches any of it before the election???

The list of offenses (not necessarily complete) is pretty impressive: Voter registration fraud, theft/fraud (in Brazil), false reporting on election docs ... It'll also be interesting to see if someone finds out how he went from not being able to pay rent and bouncing checks to having hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars available.

 

[brycejones]

his opponent needs to demand a refund on his oppo research.

 

[pauldun170]

The 34-year-old New Yorker, elected in a Long Island district that President Joe Biden won fairly easily two years earlier, became the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent.
...

Voters were told, for example, that Santos attended NYU. The school has no record of a student matching his name or birth date. He also said he graduated in 2010 from Baruch College, which also “could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.”

The Republican then supposedly worked at Citigroup as “an associate asset manager.” The finance giant has no record of his employment — or his supposed title. He also claimed to spend some time at Goldman Sachs, which came as a surprise to Goldman Sachs.

Santos claimed to help run a tax-exempt organization that the Internal Revenue Service has never heard of, and also claimed to own a company — the Devolder Organization — that is “something of a mystery.” The Times added, “And while Mr. Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed, nor could The Times could find, records of his properties.”



Santos defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman in a newly drawn district covering parts of Queens and some nearby Long Island suburbs, flipping control to Republicans, who dominated the New York suburbs on their way to winning a House majority.

Republicans don't care.

MAGA House Candidate Haunted by Gig at Reputed Ponzi Scheme

George Devolder-Santos served as regional director of accused scam firm Harbor City Capital, which allegedly misappropriated millions.

www.thedailybeast.com

https://imgur.com/a/lq9EaGW

 

[vi edit]

Toothpaste theory. Just squeeze that tube of lies and get them out. Can't put them back in the tube easily. It's the founding pillar of modern day GOP messaging.

 

[ElFenix]

timely expose

 

[UNCjigga]

GOP candidate has a criminal past, shady foreign funding and lied to get elected????

Must be a day ending in Y…

 

[UNCjigga]

... It'll also be interesting to see if someone finds out how he went from not being able to pay rent and bouncing checks to having hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars available.

Lots and lots of Free Speech…sponsored by Chief Justice Roberts and the Federalist Society.

 

[Moonbeam]

You will always find that any organization that confers power, social standing and reputation as a member will be infiltrated by a criminal element. It provides both the opportunity to commit profitable crimes but camouflage against prosecution. The best choice for membership are ones already full of active users. That would be the Republican party in spades.

 

[feralkid]

GOP candidate has a criminal past, shady foreign funding and lied to get elected????

Must be a day ending in Y…

Yep, and there will probably be NO film at eleven.

 

[Moonbeam]

dp

 

[hal2kilo]

Oh yea, mysterious moneys, appearing and changing. This guy is another GOP grifter. Seems the campaign rules/fund legislation that exists today is obviously totally inadequate.

Scandal-Struck GOP Congressman Just Revived the Firm That Netted Him Mystery Millions – Mother Jones

 

[Vic]

Looks like he's a stooge for dark money. Went from $55k/yr to $750k/yr and became a private asset manager almost overnight.
Money laundering meets politics.

 

[MrSquished]

Who would have guessed? I, or one, am flabbergasted how this GQP fella could be like this. So unlike the GQP. So sad.

 

[brycejones]

Not surprised. But then, every human lies.

Fact-checks | PolitiFact

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www.politifact.com

FTFY.

But the real question is what do they lie about and is it material? In this case it appears he lied about who he is and that is very material to the question of if people would have voted for him if they knew the truth.

 

[Pens1566]

Oh FFS ...

 

[Captante]

Some people's "agendas" are glaringly obvious despite strident claims to the contrary.



Pretty much trashes any logical argument they try to make.

 

[Bitek]

What the hell was the Zimmermann doing?

Where D opposition research at?

 

[Vic]

Not surprised. But then, every politician lies.

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www.politifact.com

Troll sheep like you are the reason elected officials get away with lies and corruption.
Because everytime someone tries to hold an elected official accountable, you have bleat something about the other side, thus ensuring that neither is held accountable.
You and those like you literally are the sheep that Orwell wrote about in Animal Farm. You are the corrupt politician's greatest asset. Their favorite useful idiots.

Now go create your own thread if you want to talk about Biden.

 

[Bitek]

I guess another story is breaking how he doesn't have the Ukrainian Jewish roots he claims.


Have we even confirmed he's an actual person and not an AI generated candidate?

 

[interchange]

Not surprised. But then, every politician lies.

Fact-checks | PolitiFact

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www.politifact.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Everybody lies. Therefore we're all the same. Might as well make Ye President then.

 

[Perknose]

So, how exactly does one lie about this amount of information and no one catches any of it before the election???

There was an election?

 

[Captante]

Yeah because God forbid we try and balance out the lies

I do believe you've gone and entirely missed the point AGAIN.

This thread makes you APPEAR to be a straight-up tool who was just waiting with baited breath to post a negative about Biden and not much else.... was that the objective?

Que you not getting it again in 3.. 2.. 1..

 

[Vic]

Some people's "agendas" are glaringly obvious despite strident claims to the contrary.



Pretty much trashes any logical argument they try to make.

One of the main differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals think logically while conservatives are emotional.

So the liberal sees bothsidesing as blatant non sequitor. Political lies and corruption are dealt with case by case, not by party lines. Just like how crime is addressed. To liberals, bothsidesing is a counterproductive distraction to solving the problem of political corruption.

Conservatives OTOH are emotional and have their egos wrapped up in their partisan identities. So unlike liberals, they're far more concerned with launching a counterattack against the egos and partisan identities on the other side than they are with addressing the problem of political corruption. Because in their minds, that problem can't be solved, therefore it's all about who gets punished.

 

[Captante]

LOL @ "loving" an insult.

I'm big on self-deprecating humor myself but that's taking things a bit far.

 

[hal2kilo]

I guess another story is breaking how he doesn't have the Ukrainian Jewish roots he claims.


Have we even confirmed he's an actual person and not an AI generated candidate?

Is he really even gay?