George Santos represents more than an individual case for American democracy. If he’s allowed to serve there will be more who seek office up and down the ballot who will believe that they can completely fabricate credentials, personal features and accomplishments to win office.

Total fraud about academic and professional credentials, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
It doesn’t appear he lied about being Latino, unfortunately.

@Joaquincastrotx Do we know if he is even a US citizen?

@MHowell @Joaquincastrotx He’a a liar and a charlatan, but we can do better than birtherism. If he had a different last name that wouldn’t be coming up.

@activecultures @Joaquincastrotx He is under indictment in Brazil, where he and his mother lived at some point. That, combined with his lies about almost every aspect of his life, were the reasons it seemed a relevant question to ask.

@Joaquincastrotx @MHowell There’s so much to criticize him for, including whatever he was indicted for. I just have an automatic reaction when a first generation American with a “foreign” sounding last name has their US citizenship questioned, especially if they’ve lived abroad. We saw the ugliness with Obama. Unless there’s some evidence, this feels like an unnecessary direction, when he’s lied about so much