Homocons

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 …

The Washington Post reports: “GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, who has now admitted his whopping lies, should resign,” tweeted Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), urging Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to call a vote to expel Santos if he does not quit. McCarthy (R-Calif.) has so far not responded to allegations that Santos misled voters about key details of his biography, …

The New York Post reports: Santos, elected to Congress on Nov. 8 to represent the Long Island- and Queens-based 3rd District, was also accused of lying about his family history, saying on his campaign website that his mother was Jewish and his grandparents escaped the Nazis during World War II. Santos now says that he’s “clearly Catholic,” but claimed his …

City & State reports: “Did I embellish my resume? Yes, I did. And I’m sorry. And it shouldn’t be done,” Santos told City & State Monday night, in the first on-camera interview since a number of stories were published revealing that Santos habitually lied and misled voters about who he was and what he did. Santos also, for the first …

The Hill reports: Democrats are calling for Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign his newly won Long Island House seat after the incoming lawmaker admitted to lying about about his professional and educational background. Santos flipped a House seat for the GOP in November to represent parts of Long Island and Queens, helping the party capture a narrow majority in the …

The New York Post reports: Long Island Rep.-elect George Santos came clean to The Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience — but insisting that the controversy won’t deter him from serving out his two-year term in Congress. “I am not a criminal,” Santos said at one point during his …

Talking Points Memo reports: Rep.-elect George Santos’ “family firm” that supposedly managed $80 million in assets was initially registered at a gynecologist’s office in a Florida office park. Santos and several of his colleagues have ties to an alleged multimillion-dollar “ponzi scheme” and a complex network of companies. Among his associates, we found a businessman who claims to have the …

The New York Post reports: Senior House Republicans were so keenly aware of alleged inaccuracies and embellishments in Rep-elect George Santos’s professional biography, that the topic became a “running joke,” multiple insiders close to House GOP leadership told The Post. “As far as questions about George in general, that was always something that was brought up whenever we talked about …

The New York Times reports: Peter Hamilton met Mr. Santos near the start of 2014, he said. He recalled how Mr. Santos, who claimed to be an N.Y.U. graduate, had not recognized the name of the business school he said he had attended. Nonetheless, Mr. Hamilton found him charismatic and intelligent. He did not hesitate when Mr. Santos said that …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News has all but ignored the growing controversy since The New York Times published its investigation of the GOP politician on Monday. Of course, this is far from the first time the network has largely turned a blind eye to a story with inconvenient facts for its right-wing audience. Fox News had presented Santos as …

Patch New York reports: As allegations of a fabricated background swirl around Long Island Congressman-elect George Santos, several people have detailed how they worked alongside him in a Queens customer service center. Patch spoke with multiple people who said they worked alongside Santos at Dish Network in College Point in 2011 and 2012. They offered details of his background not …

New York City’s NBC affiliate reports: The New York Attorney General’s Office said it is “looking into a number of issues” surrounding Congressman-elect George Santos, who was the subject of a bombshell New York Times investigation that questions whether the incoming Republican lawmaker fabricated much of his biography. Santos’ competitor in the November election, Democrat Robert Zimmerman, said members of …

Raw Story reports: In a tweet posted on Thursday afternoon, Santos vowed to answer all the questions raised by multiple reports about his background some time next week. However, many of Santos’ Twitter followers were quick to point out that there is little he can really say given the sheer scale of deception he has apparently employed. Read the full …

The Daily Beast reports: Santos, who claims he has “never experienced discrimination in the Republican Party,” broke barriers this year when he became the first openly gay non-incumbent GOP candidate elected to Congress. But according to court records obtained by The Daily Beast, Santos appears to be the subject of a previously unacknowledged Sept. 2019 divorce with a woman in …

The Jewish Forward reports: Congressman-elect George Santos’ emotional narrative of having Jewish grandparents who fled Europe during World War II appears to be untrue, like much of the rest of his campaign biography, according to genealogy websites reviewed by the Forward. Santos, a Long Island Republican, has said that his father was Catholic and his mother was Jewish, and that …