Out Rep. George Santos (R-NY) lied to a New York Times reporter about his five-year-old niece being kidnapped, according to the NYPD.

On Sunday, Times reporter Grace Ashford published a story based on several telephone conversations she’d had with the out congressman since early September. Ashford, along with fellow Times reporter Michael Gold, first began investigating Santos last November after he was elected. While their reporting, first published in December of last year, brought the then-incoming congressman’s history of lies and misdeeds to national attention, Long Island paper The North Shore Leader had been reporting on Santos’s lies on the campaign trail since before the November 2022 election.

    • Meltrax@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      In this guy’s particular case, we can be confident he’s lying because he’s very clearly a criminal level compulsive liar. He ran for the party that’s ok with that, but basically I don’t think he’s personally liberal or conservative at all. I think he’s severely mentally challenged and probably is incapable of committing to any set of ideas, because as soon as something has more potential for personal gain he will lie to chase that down.

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        1 year ago

        “criminal level compulsive liar” yeah, commenter above already said he’s a conservative! But yeah I get you, he’d probably say pretty much anything if he thought it would get him some advantage.