“Guys, I'm Jew-ish. Remember I was raised Catholic,” Republican George Santos said on Tuesday, after claiming on the campaign trail that his grandparents fled the Holocaust. The representative-elect campaigned on being a successful Jewish businessman.
, as he had claimed. And instead of a successful career in real estate, the newspaper found that landlords had tried to evict Santos multiple times. Santos also faced criminal charges for check fraud in Brazil – an allegation he continues to deny.found genealogy records that showed his grandparents living in Brazil before the Nazis rose to power, calling into question Santos’ claim that they fled during the Holocaust.
Since the Times' report, certain aspects of Santos’ biography have been scrubbed from his campaign website, according to archived versions of the site on theReferences to his “Jewish grandparents who fled persecution in Ukraine, and later fled Belgium during World War II” were removed, as were references to his father’s “Angolan roots,” his attendance at Baruch College, and a mention that he “lives on Long Island with his husband, Matt, and their four dogs.
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