No known record of Santos mugging, assassination attempt: police sources - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow, with the help of reporting by colleagues at WNBC, follows up on previous exclusive reporting about claims Republican Congressman George Santos made on a Brazilian podcast about having been the victim of a mugging and an attempted murder.

According to police sources, there is no known police report about a mugging involving any of the names Santos is known to have used, nor any known report of the attempted murder Santos claimed he was targeted by. - Aired on 02/06/2023.

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1. If he WAS mugged, it was in Brazil

But that little shit knows that caterwauling about "crime in New York" is a quick and easy way to get Chumpkin applause - hence, I suspect, the lie.

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2. And isn't he still "wanted" in Brazil for stealing a considerable amount of money?

They apparently gave up on finding him until he placed himself in the national spotlight by running for Congress!

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3. Sure - although luckily for him, Brazilian justice can be notoriously slow

Especially when right-wing interests are at play.

To Brazilian right-wingers - who, as you know, recently even attempted a coup - it's only "a matter of time" until they're back in the saddle.

And they see Santos as a (potentially) useful future U.S. congressional liaison for when that day comes.

If only he weren't such a runaway criminal, and such an embarrassment!

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6. I was actually quoting Stephen Colbert - what he said made perfect sense

And appears completely believable after what we've come to know about Santos. He said that Santos was "on the lam," wanted in Brazil for major theft, but they gave up after they were unable to locate him. So what did he do?? Ran for Congress!

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9. Absolutely.

Sorry. I didn't mean to sound facetious.

I'm referring to the current, revived Brazilian investigation.

There was some speculation that President Lula da Silva might even hand an arrest warrant against Santos to Biden during their upcoming Oval Office meeting.

But even if it were Lula's place to do so (there are, of course, other channels), it's unlikely that we'll see Brazilian justice move with that much alacrity in this case - for the political reasons I mentioned earlier.

As long as the Brazilian right finds Scamtos "useful," you can bet they'll lean on the judiciary to drag their feet.

Sadly, that's the relationship between politics and jurisprudence in Latin America - more often than not.

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4. Who is surprised by this?

Santos is always lying

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5. It's got to be some sort of mental aberration, he persists in telling elaborate and provable lies!

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7. because they were big fat lies

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8. At this point, how can he expect to believed about anything??

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10. I wonder what this Sociopath did to make someone want to throw trash at him.