Homocons

Gothamist reports: In a March 2020 video episode of the Empire State Conservatives Podcast — which has since been made private on YouTube — Santos tells the hosts that he “battled a brain tumor a couple of years ago.” “I had radiation done, which really, really lowers your immunity in general,” Santos said, recounting his experience with COVID-19 in the …

From the right wing site American Spectator: Everybody is wrong about George Santos. He’s not a villain, he’s a hero. Santos is, whether wittingly or otherwise, doing something Rush Limbaugh used to do to great effect: he’s illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Think of Santos as a performance artist. He’s like the NASCAR driver who, seeing a wreck in front …

Gothamist reports: Six years ago, Rep.-elect George Santos claimed to have been mugged on his way to pay $2,250 in back rent on his Queens apartment, according to court eviction records, but the NYPD has no record of the attack. Santos’ claim came in a sworn statement filed in connection with his threatened eviction from a Queens apartment. He said …

The New York Post reports: The 34-year-old Republican — who admitted earlier this week to lying about his work background, academic credentials and ancestry during his successful campaign for the House of Representatives — is offering supporters a bus trip to DC, lunch and a “Team Santos Tour” of the US Capitol’s grounds, while asking VIPs to chip in $500 …

The New York Post reports: Three months ago, Rep.-elect George Santos and his sister, Tiffany Lee Devolder Santos, packed their bags and left their two-year Queens rental in a bad state, The Post can report. The landlord and building owner of 151-47 12th Ave. in Whitestone told The Post the two always paid their rent on time, but left the …

The New York Times reports: The company was called Cleaner 123, and over the course of four months, it received nearly $11,000 from the campaign of George Santos, the representative-elect from New York who appears to have invented whole swaths of his life story. The expenditures were listed as “apartment rental for staff” on Mr. Santos’s campaign disclosure forms and …

“It’s a big black eye for the GOP. How did he loan himself $700,000 for a successful ’22 campaign, while he only claimed like making $55,000 last year? I’ll never forget, I was at lunch with him a couple years ago, and he told me he was worth between $14 and $22 million and that always stuck with me. “What …

The Hill reports: Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has been facing increasing scrutiny after a series of false claims he made about himself on the campaign trail came to light, called President Biden a liar in a tweet. Santos tweeted in August 2021, ahead of his eventually winning the Republican nomination and the election to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional …

CNN reports: In appearances, and in an old campaign biography, Santos claimed his parents sent him to Horace Mann, an elite private school in the Bronx. “He began Horace Mann preparatory school in the Bronx, however, did not graduate from Horace Mann due to financial difficulties for his family,” his biography read in 2019. “He obtained a GED during his …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Tom Emmer (Minn.) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) have not commented on the revelations surrounding Santos’s background and falsehoods. McCarthy did not answer questions about Santos in the Capitol last week, and House GOP leaders did …

The New York Times reports: Federal and local prosecutors are investigating whether Representative-elect George Santos committed any crimes involving his finances and lies about his background on the campaign trail. The federal investigation, which is being run by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, is focused at least in part on his financial dealings. Questions remain about how Mr. Santos …

Newsday reports: Anne Donnelly, the Republican district attorney for Nassau County, has opened an investigation into GOP rep-elect George Santos. Donnelly, a longtime Nassau prosecutor who took office at the beginning of the year, told Newsday in a statement: “The residents of Nassau County must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress. No one is above the law and …

The Daily Beast reports: Twelve weeks after its rocky launch, conservative dating app The Right Stuff is still failing to seduce large numbers of right-wing users. In October, the Peter Thiel-backed startup managed to generate 40,000 downloads. But between Nov. 1 and Dec. 20, that figure dropped to just 11,000 downloads. The app, cofounded by former Trump administration official John …

Semafor reports: As an example of his work, he said a client might want to sell a plane or a boat. “I’m not going to go list it and broker it,” he said. “What I will do is I will go look out there within my Rolodex and be like: ‘Hey, are you looking for a plane?’ ‘Are you looking …

Newsweek reports: Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is defending New York Congressman-elect George Santos while he faces backlash for fabricating details of his personal and professional life. Greene, of Georgia, praised her incoming GOP colleague for supposedly “being honest with his district now” in a series of tweets attacking Democrats on Tuesday. Misrepresentations of his heritage prompted the …

Mediaite has the transcript: TULSI GABBARD: What does the word integrity mean to you? What does it mean? Because the meaning of the word actually matters in practice. GEORGE SANTOS: It means to carry yourself in an honorable way. And I made a mistake. And I think humans are flawed and we all make mistakes, Tulsi. I think we can …

Newsday reports: Two top Long Island Republicans called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate incoming Rep. George Santos a day after the embattled politician conceded in a series of interviews that he had lied about his background and work experience. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and incoming Rep. Nick LaLota (R-Bay Shore) each told Newsday that congressional investigators should …

The Hill reports: The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on Tuesday said Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) “deceived” the organization and “misrepresented” his Jewish heritage, adding the incoming lawmaker is no longer welcome at its events. “He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish,” CEO Matt Brooks said in a …

The Jewish Forward reports: Congressman-elect George Santos, a Republican from New York who reportedly lied about his Jewish heritage and has admitted he fabricated key details of his resume, said in an interview Monday evening that he never claimed to be Jewish. “I said I was ‘Jew-ish,’” Santos told The New York Post. However, in a position paper shared with …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump political adviser and Gettr CEO Jason Miller made his position on George Santos abundantly clear this week, calling for the Republican Party to dump the embattled congressman-elect. “Get rid of this loser,” Miller declared in no uncertain terms. He also included the link to the Post’s article on Santos. The Republican Party and House GOP leadership …