The Trumpified GOP seems willing to embrace George Santos to protect the party’s slim congressional majority.
, who 20 years ago was caught making up interviews, creating sources who didn’t exist and describing scenes that were spun from his imagination. Ainvestigation ultimately found that he had largely fabricated at least 36 of the 73 stories he had worked on at the paper’s national desk, and that hundreds of his earlier articles were also in some ways problematic.
And now there’s 34-year-old George Santos, an ardent Trumpist and January 6 insurrectionist, and, it turns out, a master bullshit artist and exaggerator.
Santos hasn’t just embellished one or other aspect of his life story, or cut a few corners to make his biography seem more compelling; rather, in running for office as a U.S. congressman from Long Island, New York, he seems to have presented the voting public with an avatar that bears hardly any relation to the real person.
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