After a bit of prodding from none other than right-wing TV host Piers Morgan, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) admitted to being “a terrible liar” in a Monday interview. In the roughly 40-minute discussion Morgan pressed the New York congressman on the plethora of lies he has told over the past couple of years, which came to light just after he was elected to Congress.
George Kitara Anthony Dee Zabrovsky Devolder Santos Ravanche is not a “terrible liar”… he’s quite good at lying as evinced by his election to Congress, ability to steal monies meant for a dying dog, etc.
So, while he tells “terrible lies”, he’s not a terrible liar.
Lying comes so naturally for him that actually telling the truth is a heavy lift.
“Throughout the lengthy interview, Morgan pressed Santos on almost every lie…”
“The interview ended with Santos admitting that he’s never even set foot in New York; that his real name is ‘Seamus McCork’; and that he’s not actually a 34-year-old man, but rather 58 weasels in a trenchcoat.”
“Sure, like I said”
“Well, I’ve been a terrible liar on those subjects,”
"I’ve made peace with the fact that I made a bad choice in making that decision. It wasn’t easy.”
The new Santos is exactly the old Santos, lying about lying. “It wasn’t easy” hahahaha.
Didn’t watch the segment, but a logical follow-up to all of this would have been: “So given that by your own admission, you’ve made up most of the salient aspects of your life story, education, and work history why do you still deserve to serve in the US Congress? Why shouldn’t you resign?”
Did Morgan even ask that? It looks like Santos’s position is basically “Yeah, I lied about everything, but I don’t see how that should affect my serving out my term…”
Of course I fault Santos for his past misdeeds and for not resigning now, but only to the extent I can fault a scorpion for stinging. This is just who and what he is, sad to say.
The more outrageous fault lies with Speaker McCarthy, who allows this nonsense to continue.