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She got like 3 (you's) from Q and Q plus…it wasn't good enough.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends George Santos: 'Glad George Is Being Honest'
Story by Aila Slisco • 1h ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-george-santos-glad-george-is-being-honest/ar-AA15J8mE?cvid=3dcc2b21773448b3bd96db817c491cc6
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is defending New York Congressman-elect George Santos while he faces backlash for fabricating details of his personal and professional life.
Greene, of Georgia, praised her incoming GOP colleague for supposedly "being honest with his district now" in a series of tweets attacking Democrats on Tuesday. Santos has admitted to never working for finance companies Citigroup and Goldman Sachs or graduating from college with multiple degrees, as he had claimed while campaigning.
Santos defended the lies as merely "embellishing" his résumé in an interview with the New York Post. He has also said that he "never claimed to be Jewish," insisting that he had only claimed to be "Jew-ish" in the past. Greene brushed off the inconsistencies on Twitter and attempted to deflect the focus on Santos by assailing Democrats.
"George Santos lied about his resume, and the left is demanding he resign," Greene said in a tweet, before referencing an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that accuses Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of "marrying her brother" and launching attacks on Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and murder victim George Floyd.
Greene went on to accuse Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, who is transgender, of "lying" about her gender. She then took aim at Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, along with outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
Greene also repeated falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and argued that the House January 6 committee had "lied" by accusing former President Donald Trump and other Republicans of having "organized an insurrection."
"The left doesn't care about lying," Greene tweeted. "The real reason they're attacking George Santos is that he the first openly gay Republican elected and they hate him for it.
"I'm glad George is being honest with his district now and look forward to seeing how George legislates & votes," she continued.
Although Santos is openly gay, some have also questioned his sexual orientation. A report published by The Daily Beast last week cites court documents that reveal Santos' previously undisclosed September 2019 divorce from a woman. Santos told the Post that he had dated women in the past but is now "very much gay."
Misrepresentations of his heritage prompted the Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday to disinvite Santos from attending any future group events.
"He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage," Matt Brooks, coalition CEO, said in a statement. "In public comments and to us personally, he previously claimed to be Jewish … He will not be welcome at any future RJC event."
Other claims that Santos has admitted to lying about include not owning 13 properties that he previously claimed were his. Instead, the New York Republican owed thousands of dollars in unpaid rent to a landlord.
While Democrats have called for him to step down or be ejected from the newly Republican-controlled House when it convenes next month, Santos has said that he is looking forward to taking his seat.
Democrat Robert Zimmerman, who lost to Santos in November, urged the Republican to resign while challenging him to a special election on Twitter.
"George, if that's even your real name, if you're so convinced that #NY3 voters still trust you—resign & run against me again in a special election," Zimmerman tweeted. "Face the voters with your real past & answer questions about your criminal history. Let the voters decide."
Newsweek has reached out to Greene's office for comment.
What in the world is going on?
Openly Gay’ Rep.-Elect George Santos Didn’t Disclose Divorce With Woman
Santos ran his campaign as an openly gay Republican. Since he was elected, a number of key biographical details have started to crumble. Here’s the latest one.
Roger Sollenberger
Political Reporter
Updated Dec. 22, 2022 12:07PM ET /
https://www.thedailybeast.com/openly-gay-rep-elect-george-santos-didnt-disclose-divorce-with-woman?ref=scroll
"Republican congressman-elect George Santos is under new scrutiny after a New York Times report earlier this week uncovered a string of apparent outright fabrications at the heart of some of the most fundamental facts of his life, but that backstory may also be notable for what Santos did not include—a publicly undisclosed marriage.
Santos, who claims he has “never experienced discrimination in the Republican Party,” broke barriers this year when he became the first openly gay non-incumbent GOP candidate elected to Congress.
But according to court records obtained by The Daily Beast, Santos appears to be the subject of a previously unacknowledged Sept. 2019 divorce with a woman in Queens County, New York. The divorce—which Santos has not discussed publicly—adds new uncertainty to his already shaky biographical and political claims.
“I am openly gay, have never had an issue with my sexual identity in the past decade, and I can tell you and assure you, I will always be an advocate for LGBTQ folks,” Santos told USA Today in October, responding to criticism about his support for Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay Bill” signed into law this year by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis."
"The Daily Beast reported on Thursday that Santos divorced a woman named Uadla Santos in 2019, just two weeks before launching his ill-fated 2020 congressional campaign "
https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-openly-gay-divorced-woman-2019-republican-2022-12#
Liar Rep.-elect George Santos admits fabricating key details of his bio
By Victor Nava and Carl Campanile
December 26, 2022 5:53pm Updated
https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep-elect-george-santos-admits-fabricating-key-details-of-his-bio/
Long Island Rep.-elect George Santos came clean to The Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience — but insisting that the controversy won’t deter him from serving out his two-year term in Congress.
“I am not a criminal,” Santos said at one point during his exclusive interview. “This [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.”
Santos’ professional biography was called into question earlier this month after the New York Times reported that he misrepresented a number of claims, including where he attended college and his alleged employment history with high-profile Wall Street firms.
“My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry,” Santos said Monday.
Santos confessed he had “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, chalking that fib up to a “poor choice of words.”
The 34-year-old now claims instead that a company called Link Bridge, where he worked as a vice president, did business with both of the financial giants.
“I will be clearer about that. It was stated poorly,” Santos said of the lie.
At Link Bridge, Santos said, he helped make “capital introductions” between clients and investors, and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were “LPS, Limited Partnerships” that his company dealt with.
He also admitted that he never graduated from any college, despite previously claiming to have received a degree from Baruch in 2010.
“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” he said. “I own up to that … We do stupid things in life.”
Santos, elected to Congress on Nov. 8 to represent the Long Island- and Queens-based 3rd District, was also accused of lying about his family history, saying on his campaign website that his mother was Jewish and his grandparents escaped the Nazis during World War II.
Santos now says that he’s “clearly Catholic,” but claimed his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.'”
Santos, the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to the House, also faced accusations that he lied about his sexual orientation, with the Daily Beast reporting last week that he was previously married to a woman until shortly before he launched his unsuccessful 2020 campaign against Democrat Tom Suozzi.
The soon-to-be lawmaker confirmed to The Post on Monday that he was indeed married to a woman for about five years, from 2012 until his divorce in 2017, but insisted that he is now a happily married gay man.
“I dated women in the past. I married a woman. It’s personal stuff,” Santos said, adding that the relationship “got a little toxic.”
“I’m very much gay,” he says now. “I’m OK with my sexuality. People change. I’m one of those people who change.”
Santos also acknowledged being a deadbeat tenant in Sunnyside, Queens, where the Times reported he was ordered by a judge to pay more than $12,000 to a former landlord who claimed non-payment of several months of rent — as well as that Santos had tried to pass a check that bounced.
On Monday, Santos claimed that at the time of the lawsuit, his family was deep in medical debt from his mother’s cancer battle.
“We were engulfed in debt,” he said. “We had issues paying rent at the time. It’s the vulnerability of being human. I am not embarrassed by it.”
Santos said his mother died of cancer on Dec. 23, 2016, after living with him at the Queens apartment and acknowledged the judgment against him.
Asked if he ever actually paid the arrears, Santos admitted: “We didn’t pay it off. I completely forgot about it.”
Santos also admitted to lying when he claimed that he owned 13 different properties, saying he now resides at his sister’s place in Huntington but is looking to purchase his own place.
“George Santos does not own any properties,” he said.
Santos was defiant on one point — denying an allegation raised by the Times that he had an unspecified criminal charge filed against him in Brazil.
“I am not a criminal here — not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world,” Santos said. “Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.”
The incoming congressman dismissed concerns that his lies will impact his effectiveness in representing New Yorkers in the lower chamber in the new year.
“I campaigned talking about the people’s concerns, not my resume,” Santos told The Post.
“I intend to deliver on the promises I made during the campaign — fighting crime, fighting to lower inflation, improving education,” he added, saying that “The people elected me to fight for them.”
“I came to DC to bring results on those issues and that’s what I’m going to do.”
Meanwhile, Santos said the $11 million in assets reported in his financial disclosure report filed in September are tied to his Devolder consulting firm.
“All of my finances come from the firm. The assets are the contracts with the firm,” he told The Post.
His campaign committee, Devolder-Santos for Congress, also reported that he personally loaned his campaign more than $600,000.
Senior House Republicans were apparently aware of the inaccuracies and embellishments in the member-elect’s resume, and the topic became a “running joke,” multiple insiders close to House GOP leadership told The Post over the weekend.
“As far as questions about George in general, that was always something that was brought up whenever we talked about this race,” said one senior GOP leadership aide. “It was a running joke at a certain point. This is the second time he’s run and these issues we assumed would be worked out by the voters.”
Last week, the top Republican in Nassau County demanded that Santos explain himself after his web of lies began to unravel.
“While I have indicated that the congressman-elect deserves a reasonable amount of time to respond to the media, voters deserve a sincere accounting from Mr. Santos,” said Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo. “I will be listening attentively, and I want to hear meaningful remarks from George Santos.”
That same day, Santos broke his three-day silence since reports of his prevarications emerged, tweeting: “To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week. I want to assure everyone that I will address your questions and that I remain committed to deliver the results I campaigned on; Public Safety, Inflation, Education & more.”
He then added: “Happy Holidays to all!”
Santos on Tucker with Tulsi
Ok found full vid
full vid at link
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1607917139154837504
Good Job Tulsi!
"It's hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you are not really even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them."
I expect Dems to be shady and lie…I keep my eyes more on Republicans bc they are supposed to represent me. Moving further independent every day.