PolitiFact Managing Editor KatieLSanders on Santos: 'Politicians don’t tell the truth, sure. Nothing new. Everyone says that. But to be this brazen is unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory.' nytimes
Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday, via Getty ImagesWe’ve become accustomed in American politics to a certain level of truth stretching. Politicians contort facts to justify their plans. Some polish the rough edges of their résumés or inflate military credentials, hoping no one notices. Notoriously, Donald Trump’s falsehood-filled presidency ended with a massive lie about the 2020 election.
“Politicians don’t tell the truth, sure. Nothing new. Everyone says that,” said Katie Sanders, the managing editor of PolitiFact, a widely respected nonpartisan fact-checking service. “But to be this brazen is unlike anything we’ve seen in recent memory.” Today’s newsletter will detail some of Santos’s most egregious fabrications and explain why he may not face immediate consequences.As a candidate, Santos presented himself as a compelling political figure: a young, gay, conservative financier with deep connections and family wealth. Voters in his suburban New York district responded, delivering him a nearly eight-point victory in November over a Democrat, Robert Zimmerman.
Santos claimed to have founded a tax-exempt animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats. He claimed he was Jewish and had ancestors who fled the Holocaust. He said he “lost four employees” at the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
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