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Satchi. Sachi, what's your stance on politicians?

Like, do you automatically assume that they're all liars?

Yeah, politicians bad. I don't know why you would do it as a job and I'm inherently

distrustful of it and I think I'm right to be. We fully agree on this and the

subject of today's story is an American politician I know you've heard of

he's so bad at lying that he gets caught and doing it constantly about things that

seemingly don't even matter.

This is the story of how a small time fraudster became the Anna Delvey of Congress.

It's January 5th, 2021, and Gregory Mori Parker is sitting in his apartment in Boxborough, Massachusetts.

Gregory is a preppy white guy in his early 30s, and right now he's glued to the news on television.

A crowd of Trump supporters have gathered in Washington DC for what they're calling

the Stop the Steel rally. It's basically the warm-up for January 6th when these guys will

storm through the US capital to falsely claim that Donald Trump won the

presidential election. As Gregory watches, he realizes he actually knows one of the speakers at this rally,

his old friend Anthony Devolder.

Gregory met Anthony on a dating app eight years earlier when they were both in their mid-20s.

They weren't a romantic match, but they became friends and briefly lived together in Queens.

Gregory remembers that some things about Anthony seemed sketchy.

For example, Anthony bragged about his family's wealth

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