Seemingly each day has brought the discovery of fresh falsehoods from Santos. On Thursday, news reports surfaced an old tweet in which he said his mother had died on 9/11. She died in 2016, according to another tweet by Santos and an obituary.
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The ex-president, son Donald Jr. and daughter Ivanka had been scheduled for depositions in a New York civil investigation into their business dealings.