[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Where embellishing is defined as every word is a lie, including the and and. - New York Rep.-elect called inconsistencies 'resume embellishment'
- He acknowledged he never worked for financial firms Citigroup and Goldman
- In fact, he worked at a call center in Queens, making $15 an hour
- Also admitted to not actually holding degrees from Baruch College and NYU
He has also acknowledged never graduating from any college, despite earlier claiming to have 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. I own up to that … We do stupid things in life,' he said.
The 'openly gay' Santos, who was revealed to have been married to a woman until 2020, currently lives in Long Island.
Santos had been married to a woman named Uadla between 2012 and 2019 but he now insists he is happily married once again - to a man.
He came clean on Monday after lying his way along the campaign trail.
'I am not a criminal. Not here, not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have I ever committed any crimes,' Santos said in an interview with WABC radio.
| ‘This is the second time he's run and these issues we assumed would be worked out by the voters,' said one senior GOP leadership aide who remained anonymous. |
'To get down to the nit and gritty, I'm not a fraud. I'm not a criminal who defrauded the entire country and made up this fictional character and ran for Congress. I've been around a long time. I mean, a lot of people know me. They know who I am. They've done business dealings with me,' he added.
'I'm not going to make excuses for this, but a lot of people overstate in their resumes, or twist a little bit. … I'm not saying I'm not guilty of that,' he said.
'I want to make sure that if I disappointed anyone by resume embellishment, I am sorry.'
The Donald Trump-supporting politician won a historic victory on November 8 when he became the first openly gay non incumbent Republican elected to Congress.
Despite the blatant deception, Santos told the New York Post he has no intention of stepping aside and still intends to take office in the new year.
On his campaign website Santos stated that his mother was Jewish and his Jewish maternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by moving to Brazil. But records show that his maternal grandparents were Brazilian-born Catholics.
Santos says that he's 'clearly Catholic,' reframing his story as one his grandmother told about being Jewish before later converting to Catholicism.
Santos' web of lies began to unravel last week as questions were asked of his resume and it became something of a 'running joke' within GOP circles.
'As far as questions about George in general, that was always something that was brought up whenever we talked about this race. 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,' said one senior GOP leadership aide who remained anonymous.
| Then there is all the financial fraud — non-payment of rent, of loans from friends, paying for his mother’s funeral with a bad check — and the lies he told about his background while working at that call center. He is a straight up con man and the local Republican party knew, but said nothing, deliberately allowing the voters and OrangeManBad to be suckered. |
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