Rep. George Santos Appears to Have Ripped Off His Former Boss's Resume in Crafting His Backstory

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Days after a Republican official told reporters that embattled Rep. George Santos once lied about being a college volleyball "star," a new report suggests that some of the "key elements" of Santos' story bear a striking resemblance to the resume of his former boss, Pablo Oliveira.

Inside Edition reports that Oliveira, who was Santos' boss at financial services company LinkBridge Investors, graduated from Baruch University, where he played on the school's winning volleyball team and was a two-time All-American volleyball player. A LinkedIn profile appears to back up Oliveira's resume, though little is known about LinkBridge itself.

While it's unclear whether Santos, 34, intentionally appropriated Oliveira's background, the Republican lawmaker has told a similar story — albeit one that wasn't true.

Santos has said he graduated from Baruch College in 2010, writing in a resume given to the the Nassau County Republican Committee in 2020 that he graduated summa cum laude with a 3.89 GPA.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-george-santos-appears-to-have-ripped-off-his-former-boss-s-resume-in-crafting-his-backstory/ar-AA16jY53

[Lovie777]

1. And McCarthy said........

people "fluff" up their resumes

That is some stupid stuff.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. +1000

I couldn't say that enough.

[FeelingBlue]

21. Dems don't need to. NT

[ZonkerHarris]

2. The Ultimate Republican, George Santos.

[Mr. Evil]

22. The newest protege of TFG.

TFG being the ultimate liar.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Love it.

Plagiarism

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. Reminds me of when Melaria stole Michelle Obama's speech

[dembotoz]

4. well you know you find someone with a good resume so you use it as a blueprint

and you use it as a blueprint maybe a little too much....

[Otto_Harper]

5. With much going on in my life, I haven't been following the excruciating details of this case

but, it would seem to me that everyone is focused on all of the fabrications he has presented for his past, instead of probing to learn what his actual past is. That would seem to be the much more important and informative approach at the moment.

[CaptainTruth]

11. There's a fair amount of digging into to his actual past going on.

From what I've seen it isn't good.

Things like a company, supposedly a "family" business, that was created with no apparent assets, but then mysteriously ended up with $700,000 or so, & then Santos set up a second company, again with no known assets or business activity, which payed him a $715,000 "salary." (I may have the numbers slightly wrong, but they're close.)

It looks like the whole thing was a way to launder an illegal campaign donation.

[Otto_Harper]

17. Well then I suppose they will appoint a Special Prosecutor (in 2037) (NT)

[dalton99a]

6. Figures

[PufPuf23]

9. Santos did not make major effort to craft his tale. smh. nt

[bluesbassman]

10. I guess when you've been Trump's chief fluffer,

What Santos has done would seem like a “little” fluffing.

[patphil]

12. I still say the Republicans missed an opportunity to dump this jerk and look good doing it.

After the Speaker issue was settled, Santos was nothing more than dead weight.
Without him they still had 222 votes; still solidly in control of the House. Getting rid of him would give people the impression that the Republican party was ethical. An illusion in all actuality, but still worth some points in the court of public opinion.
But they couldn't do it. So, when Santos finally goes down, and he will, they're going to look like the shits they really are.

Way to go McCarthy!

[ShazzieB]

20. I absolutely agree.

By now, everyone who follows American politics knows about Santos, that he's a H U G E liar, as well as a stupid jerk for thinking he could get away with lying on such a scale at this point in time, when it's never been easier to fact check what someone says about their background.

I said in a previous post about Santos that I thought it was incredibly stupid of him to think he could tell that many lies and expect not to be found out eventually. If he'd just lied about one or two things, he might gotten away with it, but the more lies you tell, the more likely it is that something will slip out. And when one thing slips out, people go, "Hmm, did he lie about anything else?" and start digging. They find another lie, and another, and another, until the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. That's where Santos is now, and if he had any sense at all, he'd resign his Congressional seat and fade into the woodwork as fast as possible. Imo, the fact that he hasn't done that is more evidence of how stupid he is, how grandiose his delusions of grandeur are, or both.

I presume Kevin is trying to shield Santos, in return for his supporting Kevin (who needs all the support he can get, as we know), but I think that's just prolonging the inevitable. There's no way Santos can possibly be successful in Congress now, because everybody else in the House knows what a flaming idiot he is and nobody in their right mind will ever trust him on anything. He's nothing but an embarrassment to himself and to the rest of the House Republicans, and I believe it's just going to get worse. Trying to brazen it out is an exercise in futility, imo. If Kev's been endouraging him to do so, it's a toss-up which one of them is the bigger idiot.

[UTUSN]

13. He had an actual, real life boss at some point?!

[OMGWTF]

14. There's a new video of George Santos on January 5, 2021 riling up the crowd

and saying the elections were stolen from him and Trump -- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hjJrhPLXECg

What a horrible vile POS.

[nuxvomica]

15. Why do they say it's unclear whether he did it intentionally?

It's pretty clear to me he did intentionally. I'm not sure what the scenario would be where he hadn't done it intentionally.

[AllyCat]

16. The new GQP hero.

They love this ingenuity for how to reinvent their idiocy.

[WA-03 Democrat]

18. How many times has this guy

seen "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is all I want to know. He will murder his boyfriend in the next act?

[NCjack]

19. GOPers probably felt good all over more than anywhere else that

they had snag a candidate that "graduated summa cum laude with a 3.89 GPA" and still spewed Trump bullshit. (This guy was made to kick DEM butt -- but, it was not to be.)