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US Representative George Santos has claimed he was the target of an assassination attempt, after facing calls to resign from other New York Republicans over his fantastic lies about his life story.
Santos made the murder claim in an interview with a Brazilian podcast last month, in which he also claimed he was mugged on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue by muggers who stole his shoes.
“In the summer of 2021, in the middle of Fifth Avenue at 55 (Calle), I was robbed by two men,” Santos told the Rádio Novelo podcast in Portuguese, according to a video of the interview published by msnbc Monday.
He continued: ‘Before I ask any questions, they weren’t black, they were white in fact, but they robbed me, they took my briefcase, they took my shoes and my watch. And that was in broad daylight.
‘It was 3 in the afternoon. I was leaving my office, I was going to the garage, I was taking my car and I was mugged,’ he claimed. In the middle of Fifth Avenue. And that was not the worst, nobody did anything.
Representative George Santos has claimed that he was the target of an assassination attempt and was mugged on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight by assailants who stole his shoes.
Fifth Avenue is seen last month during a temporary closure to automobile traffic. Santos claims his shoes were stolen on the busy thoroughfare in the middle of the afternoon.
The podcast hosts wrote in a skeptical article that they had asked Santos for a police report to corroborate their assault claims, but have received no response.
In the interview, recorded on December 7 shortly before his bizarre fabrications came to light, Santos also casually referred to an alleged attempt on his life while describing an incident of vandalism at the home.
‘In 2020, in Florida, I’m going to a New Year’s Eve party with my husband. We return to our house. It was torn apart because we were in a Republican Party in Florida in 2020. That’s it. I have experienced vandalism,” she said.
“We’ve 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,” she said.
Santos came under the spotlight when he admitted to lying about his college and professional credentials late last month.
He is also wanted by prosecutors in Brazil for allegedly stealing a sick man’s checkbook, and spent a year working for a US company the SEC has labeled a ‘Ponzi scheme’.
Santos came under the spotlight when he admitted to lying about his college and professional credentials late last month.
When asked about photos that appear to show him in drag, Santos said, “I was young and I had fun at a festival,” but insisted that “I wasn’t a drag queen in Brazil.”
On Saturday, Santos coyly responded to multiple credible reports, based on photos and witness interviews, that he had performed as a drag queen in Brazil.
The 34-year-old lawmaker, who is openly gay, said he was “not a drag queen in Brazil” but “had fun” in his youth when confronted with a photo that allegedly showed him in a dress and sporting long, straight hair. heavy makeup.
‘I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life,’ she told reporters at La Guardia airport, according to CNN.
“The latest media obsession that I am a drag queen or ‘acted’ like a drag queen is categorically false,” Santos said in a tweet.
“The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life as I work for results. This will not distract me or bewilder me.
He later posted, responding to another damaging claim: “The reports that I would let a dog die are shocking and insane.”
It came after a military veteran told several different outlets that Santos had introduced himself as “Anthony Devolder,” his middle name, and agreed to help raise money for his service dog’s cancer surgery.
Santos allegedly ended up disappearing with the money and the dog had to be put down. His owner said he was forced to beg for enough money to pay for the procedure and put the dog out of his misery.
But Santos defended himself: “My work in defense of animals was the labor of love and hard work.”
“Over the past 24 hours, I have received photos of dogs I have helped rescue over the years along with messages of support. These distractions won’t stop me!’ he said.
But according to a new survey from the Research Institute of the University of Sienapeople who live in the Empire State, including its Queens/Long Island borough, are tired of the constant trickle of new revelations.
Fifty-nine percent of those polled said they want Santos to resign, compared with just 17 percent who said they want him to stay on Capitol Hill.
Just under a quarter said they had no opinion about his political career. Her overall favorability rating is low, too, at just 16 percent.
Even among his fellow Republicans, a 49 percent plurality wants him out of Congress.