Inside the mind of a fabulist
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Representative George Santos has lied about almost every aspect of his life. How do uncontrolled fabulists get that way -- going way beyond the little fibs we all tell -- to cutting all ties with the truth?
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| 0:00.0 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi. Well, we've reached the point where one |
| 0:06.6 | really must ask is George Santos even his real name. After all, the new United |
| 0:14.7 | States representative for New York's third congressional district has |
| 0:18.4 | introduced himself in years past as... So my name is Anthony DeVolder. I'm a New York |
| 0:23.3 | City resident. I recently founded a group called United for Trump so if you guys |
| 0:28.0 | want to follow, that would be awesome. That was from a 2019 event encouraging |
| 0:33.5 | gay New Yorkers to leave the Democratic Party. Or maybe his real name is |
| 0:39.0 | something else. In a 2020 event, campaign event at the Queen's Village Republican |
| 0:44.5 | Club, he a confused moderator took a stab at... |
| 0:48.0 | Folks, another important speaker, another congressional nominee, George Santos. George, |
| 0:57.3 | who we know as a friend, and he's known as Anthony DeVolder, so I don't know where |
| 1:03.9 | George Santos came into the event, but that's what he says here. Well, he's also |
| 1:08.3 | gone by George DeVolder and on an official financial disclosure report submitted |
| 1:14.2 | to the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 11, 2020, under the cell |
| 1:20.7 | that calls for filer information name, he submitted George Anthony DeVolder |
| 1:27.1 | Santos, but there's a hyphen in between DeVolder and Santos. So maybe we should |
| 1:32.7 | be referring to him as representative DeVolder Santos. Or maybe that's wrong too. |
| 1:38.1 | The congressman's former roommate Gregory Mori Parker told CNN's Anderson Cooper |
| 1:43.1 | this week that he knew the rep by yet another name, Anthony Zbrovsky. He used |
| 1:48.0 | the Brovsky for his friends of Pets United, his GoFundMe, and he would say, |
| 1:55.3 | oh well, you know, the Jews will give more if you're a Jew. And so that's the name |
| 2:00.7 | he used for his GoFundees. After all, George Santos, aka George DeVolder, |
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