{"id":550587,"date":"2023-02-11T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T06:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T03:30:31","slug":"santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"#Santos blames \u2019embellished resume\u2019 on local GOP as scrutiny continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fd20548259\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3fd20548259\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues\/#Santos_blames_embellished_resume_on_local_GOP_as_scrutiny_continues\" >Santos blames \u2019embellished resume\u2019 on local GOP as scrutiny continues<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Santos_blames_embellished_resume_on_local_GOP_as_scrutiny_continues\"><\/span>Santos blames \u2019embellished resume\u2019 on local GOP as scrutiny continues<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/AP23025577314280-e1676086105699.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Thursday blamed the local Nassau County GOP for his \u201cembellished resume,\u201d as the freshman lawmaker continues to face intense <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> scrutiny over his background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have never gotten the nomination from Nassau County GOP if I had not concluded college,\u201d Santos <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/george-santos-misrepresentations-resume\/2023\/02\/09\/id\/1108082\/\">said in an interview with Newsmax<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cTo say that I deceived, and it was a campaign of deceit and deception is just not fair. That\u2019s just the political spin that the Nassau County GOP wants to create on this narrative,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Santos first admitted in December to lying about his education and work experience. Despite his claims on the campaign trail, Santos did not attend Baruch College or any other university, and never worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>After previously describing himself as a \u201cproud American Jew\u201d and claiming that his grandparents fled persecution in Europe during the Holocaust, Santos later clarified that he identifies as Catholic and only meant that he was \u201cJew-ish.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Republican has also been accused of lying about a litany of other things, including that he attended a prestigious prep school in New York, that his mother died from 9\/11-related causes and that he knew several victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. His finances are also currently the subject of multiple investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m human; I\u2019ve made mistakes,\u201d Santos said in Thursday\u2019s interview. \u201cI\u2019ve made peace with those mistakes, and I\u2019ve come clean on those mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be judged based on my actions,\u201d he added. \u201cIf you look at my report card, I stand right now as one of the most conservative members of Congress, keeping to my word that I will vote conservatively for the people of New York\u2019s 3rd Congressional District.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>His comments come as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for him to resign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Thursday blamed the local Nassau County GOP for his \u201cembellished resume,\u201d as the freshman lawmaker continues to face intense media scrutiny over his background. \u201cI would have never gotten the nomination from Nassau County GOP if I had not concluded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/AP23025577314280-e1676086105699.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,139529,137726,73014,90482,71567,139751,88571,70289,4965],"class_list":["post-550587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-defense-national-security","tag-george-santos","tag-health-care","tag-house","tag-nassau-county","tag-nassau-county-gop","tag-newsletters","tag-senate","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}