Republicans may have known about George Santos’s lies before the election but said nothing

A recent report from the New York Times suggests that many Republicans knew about the litany of lies told by out Rep. George Santos (R-NY) before he was elected, but they said nothing.

Since his victory, Santos has been repeatedly and credibly accused of lying about his background, education, work history, personal life, charity work, and more. He has also been accused of violating campaign finance law, being involved with a venture capital firm that has been accused of fraud, and stealing from more than one former roommate. He has admitted to many of these lies but denies criminal wrongdoing.

The report from the Times says the walls began to crumble after the Santos campaign hired a research firm to do a vulnerability study on him, a routine effort to find anything in his life an opponent could use against him. The firm discovered several of Santos’s lies, and as a result some of his campaign vendors tried to get him to stop running. When he wouldn’t, many of them quit.

It is unknown whether the results of the vulnerability study became known to top Republican leaders, but it seems clear that at the very least, a…

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