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Matthew Budman Dec 19, 2022

The GOP just elected a new congressman who appears to have simply made up his entire résumé & most of his life story. Why did no one do a deep dive on him until now? Because society functions on a measure of trust—we can’t assume that people are likely lying about, well, everything!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=njOzTy0xfVJfEHSQR4w4xDD5qN2mBRBtkB6BcqbX9zYF4Xli0g6b52lTTrGvHgPHyvuTlO-el0i164j9S1shxw3LBEHheIzfkeLqcg-ccIQXIcBek2jQUs_w6vtSYk3_hyMOQGDRLcwK1y3gQU--c103kWDEm5_etOBx7qSRvkTeo32JBqnGlhz178oiWXmFmd2CCRPeeDXlBtF1q4h_QPWhxUGjv4GD-IjrO0TnfE6AkmajriIl723d3CROCpUPyAqCt0Rs8MmLyX1bUh0OEBloWMmM1MhuVvs1_-zZG5QAn1Ia4aBMz9TyreQwqtZNbZWga2W96GAFykpGi2oaso70D0jFINQ&smid=share-url

New York Republican George Santos’s Résumé Called Into Question

Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he’s the “embodiment of the American dream.” But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights.

The New York Times

@matthewbudman Just checking one single fact about his background would have unraveled all of this, but nobody seems to have done it. Though it is also possible that any of these groups did know and sat on the info for whatever reason, and that would be a story, too.