Santos Claimed “Assassination Attempt” Last Year

The Insider reports:

In a clip uncovered by the “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, Santos tells the podcast Radio Novela Apresenta that his home was vandalized in January of 2021 simply because he was a Republican.

“I’m going to a New Year’s Eve party with my husband. We go back to our house, it was vandalized because we were at a Republican Party in Florida in December 2020,” Santos told the hosts, according to the Rachel Maddow Show translation. “So that’s it. I’ve experienced vandalism.”

Santos then makes another claim: Someone tried to take his life. “We have already suffered an attempt on my life, an assassination attempt, a threatening letter, having to have the police, a police escort standing in front of our house,” Santos says.

Read the full article. The interview below was recorded after Santos had won the election.

George Santos told Brazilian media that he survived an assassination attempt, MSNBC reports https://t.co/g2XH0Fys8w

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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Maddow shares new video of Republican Rep. George Santos in an interview with a Brazilian media outlet describing being the victim of a mugging and an assassination attempt. pic.twitter.com/EhPYiSNswk

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