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George Santos is being accused of so many lies, it's hard to know what's real about him [1]
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Date: 2023-01-04
Life catches up to you fast when you’re *squints* a gay MAGA Republican running for office. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say lies catch up to you fast, as Rep.-elect George Santos can likely attest to after his first day in Congress.
What do we know about Santos? He’s a 34-year-old millennial. He’s a Republican. He managed to defeat a fellow openly gay man, Robert Zimmerman, who ran for the same seat in Long Island as a Democrat. It also appears Santos lied (or at least lied via implication) about a whole lot…. including, but not limited to, graduating from Baruch College, being Jewish (and having grandparents who fled the Nazi regime), his mother dying from cancer from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, having lost four workers to the Pulse nightclub massacre, and working at two major Wall Street firms (Citigroup and Goldman Sachs).
Remember when Trump went viral for holding that upside-down Pride flag? I like to think he was imagining a young man just like Santos. Surprising no one, Santos’ actual peers seem not to be—the image of him sitting alone on the day he was sworn into Congress is pretty epic. And an openly gay Congressman, Ritchie Torres, is actually introducing legislation to stop other politicians from getting away with the same stunts. Welcome to the spotlight, and the scrutiny, Santos.
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