We know that Republicans have a tendency to lie, and we also know they love to grift. But George Santos is one of a kind. There's no trace of him being a former Wall Street financier, nor can they find any record of him graduating from the college he claims he attended. He runs an animal charity non-profit that turns out not to be a registered charity. He appears to be a serial grifter, so he should go far in this Republican party. Go read the whole crazy story at the New York Times:
George Santos, whose election to Congress on Long Island last month helped Republicans clinch a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, built his candidacy on the notion that he was the “full embodiment of the American dream” and was running to safeguard it for others.
His campaign biography amplified his storybook journey: He is the son of Brazilian immigrants, and the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent. By his account, he catapulted himself from a New York City public college to become a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor” with a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties and an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats.
But a New York Times review of public documents and court filings from the United States and Brazil, as well as various attempts to verify claims that Mr. Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the résumé that he sold to voters.
