New York Republican Rep.-elect George Santos is facing mounting scrutiny over his resume and now his claimed Jewish heritage after an onslaught of online reports.
published Wednesday, where it delved into genealogy website myheritage.com and found that his grandparents had been born in Brazil, not Ukraine as the Long Island Republican had said.
The Forward also noted that Santos' deceased mother regularly shared Catholic-themed posts and imagery of Jesus on her Facebook page, including a post eight months before she passed. Santos’ heritage is not the only part of his backstory under scrutiny. The Daily Beast reported that the first openly gay Republican congressman-elect did not publicly disclose his marriage to a woman, Uadla Santos Vieira Santos.
Santos’ claimed animal welfare charity also might not exist, as Internal Revenue Service records have no results for Santos’ claimed nonprofit Friends of Pets United. "George Santos represents the kind of progress than the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, first generation American and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party.
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