George Santos lies: A running list of the fibs he's told.
No, he is not Jewish, he did not lose several employees in a mass shooting, and he was not a landlord.
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No, he is not Jewish, he did not lose several employees in a mass shooting, and he was not a landlord.
Genealogy websites cited by The Forward suggest that Mr. Santos’s grandparents were born in Brazil and were not “Holocaust refugees,” as he has claimed.
A New York Times expose prompted a closer look at the congressman-elect's claims
Contrary to Santos’s claims, his grandparents were actually born in Brazil, not Ukraine, and could not have escaped the Nazis during their rise to power, the Forward reported.
Is Santos lying about his Jewish background? As with so much else in his personal narrative, there’s little to suggest truth beyond his own past comments.