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What Next: Mr. Santos Goes to Washington

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How far can you go on a lie? Looking at the career of George Santos, United States Representative, it can take you at least to the congressional floor. But now, firmly in the public eye, his resume unraveling, is Santos’ political career about to be derailed before it starts? And how did it get this far in the first place? Guest: Azi Paybarah, national reporter covering campaigns and breaking politics news at the Washington Post. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by FX's American Horror Story, Delicate, starring a female

0:06.2

lead ensemble cast, which marks the highly anticipated return of fan favorite Emma Roberts

0:10.9

to the franchise.

0:12.5

Delicate also will be introducing some fresh blood featuring Kim Kardashian in a role

0:16.4

that was specifically written with her in mind, along with Cara Delavine, who will both

0:20.1

be joining the AHS family for the first time.

0:23.3

FX's American Horror Story, Delicate, Part 1, premieres September 20th on FX, stream

0:28.8

on Hulu.

0:30.0

The Washington Post's Aussie Pabera had to kind of rev up when I asked him to take off

0:41.8

a list of the most notable lies George Santos, told about himself, more running for Congress.

0:48.0

Oh man, the greatest hits, okay, here we go.

0:52.6

He said he worked at Goldman Sachs, he said he worked at Citi Group, he said he graduated

0:57.7

from NYU, he said.

0:59.2

You have heard some version of his list over the last few weeks, it's long.

1:05.5

Are any of those things true?

1:07.1

No.

1:11.4

It was The New York Times that began to unspool the full breadth of Santos's dishonesty.

1:16.8

They published an article right before Christmas, claiming that the freshman congressman from

1:20.7

New York might have a resume that is largely a fiction.

1:25.7

Now, all through Congress's dramatic opening week, George Santos has become a Republican

1:31.2

side show.

1:32.9

He's also become a bit of a gold mine for political reporters like Aussie.

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