Hey, Santos, you’re killin’ us!
Rep. George Santos, the chronically untruthful Long Island Republican who has fabricated much of his biography, claimed in a newly unearthed podcast interview that he survived an “assassination attempt” — and separately had his shoes stolen off his feet during a mugging in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
The notorious fabulist made a series of wild allegations during a virtual sitdown with a Brazilian podcast in December. The podcast was translated into
English from Portuguese by MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and aired Monday.
“We have already suffered an attempt on my life, an assassination attempt, a threatening letter, having to have the police, a police escort standing in front of our house,” said Santos, who previously went by the name Anthony Devolder and was introduced on the show as George Santos-Devolder.
The freshman congressman, who is of Brazilian descent — but previously claimed he was “Jew-ish” and the descendant of Holocaust survivors — alleged he was the victim of multiple crimes over the years, including the “assassination attempt.”
He also said that when he and his husband returned home from a New Year’s Eve party in 2021, they found their Florida home vandalized in what he described as a politically motivated attack.
“It was vandalized because we were at a Republican party,” he argued.
Later in the interview, Santos recounted how one afternoon in the summer of 2021 he was mugged by two men in the middle of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
“They robbed me, took my briefcase, took my shoes, and my watch,” Santos said on the podcast. “And that was in broad daylight. It was 3 p.m. I was leaving my office, going to the garage, getting my car, and I was mugged.”
Santos said the worst part was that “nobody did anything.”
Maddow said Monday the hosts of the podcast later asked Santos for a copy of a police report but did not receive a response.