What Next - Mr. Santos Goes to Washington
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 23 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.
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| 0:48.0 | The Washington Post's Aussie paper, uh, had to kind of rev up when I asked him to take off a list of the most notable lies. |
| 0:55.5 | George Santos told about himself, more running for Congress. |
| 0:59.3 | Oh man, the greatest hits. Okay, here we go. |
| 1:03.5 | He said he worked at Goldman Tax. He said he worked at city group. |
| 1:07.9 | He said he graduated from NYU. He said you have heard some version of this list over the last few weeks. |
| 1:14.4 | It's long. Are any of those things true? |
| 1:17.2 | No. |
| 1:18.3 | It was the New York Times that began to unspool the full breadth of Santos's dishonesty. |
| 1:27.7 | They published an article right before Christmas claiming that the freshman congressman from New York might have a resume that is largely a fiction. |
| 1:36.8 | Now all through Congress's dramatic opening week George Santos has become a Republican side show. |
| 1:43.1 | He's also become a bit of a gold mine for political reporters like Aussie. |
| 1:47.9 | Aussie's found no record of Santos at the high school he says he attended. |
| 1:51.1 | Aussie even discovered that until recently George Santos was not known as George Santos at all. |
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