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.

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    I’ve found that some people are just serial liars. That, coupled with people’s inability to admit fault or that they are wrong, and you get GS. I don’t even think he realizes he’s lying half the time. He’s conditioned himself to believe his own lies.

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      I knew a guy in college that would tell random, easily disprovable lies - he claimed he spent a summer with another guy in our dorm on the beach volleyball circuit, for example. (Other guy: “I haven’t seen him since the spring.”) He claimed he had enough AP credits to graduate after one semester but still spent 4 years getting his degree “for the college experience”. Just random, insane shit like that.

      He didn’t look anything like George Santos, so I’m pretty sure it’s not him.

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          I wonder if they are just perfecting their ability. Counting lies they are able to get away with. Calculating odds based what they’ve tried. Trying a big lie vs a small lie. Someone obsessed with lying might try to make a living out of it.

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        Had a guy like that in college too. One that stood out the most is he played varsity basketball as a freshman in highschool standing right next to someone he went to highschool with. Guy gave him a weird look look and afterwards told us, I don’t know what he’s talking about he never played basketball in highschool at all. He was constantly telling pointless easy to prove false shit.

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        So George Santos was a shape-shifting alien from Alpha Centauri all along. Got it!