MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday aired an unique video of serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) claiming to have been the topic of an assassination plot and the sufferer of a mugging on Fifth Avenue in New York.
“We now have already suffered an try on my life, an assassination try, a threatening letter, having to have the police, a police escort standing in entrance of our home,” the then-congressman-elect instructed the Brazilian podcast “Radio Novelo Apresenta” in December.
Santos alleged his Florida dwelling was vandalized in January 2021 “as a result of we had been at a Republican occasion” to have fun the brand new 12 months.
And he mentioned two white males mugged him “in broad daylight” on Fifth Avenue in the summertime of 2021, stealing his sneakers, watch and briefcase.
“That wasn’t the worst of it,” he instructed the podcast host. “No person did something. No person did something. The concern is actual. It’s surreal what we dwell by way of right here.”
“Surreal is one phrase for it,” Maddow mentioned after exhibiting the footage.
After Santos gained his congressional seat within the 2022 midterms, it emerged that he had fabricated a lot of his life story.
Santos didn't reply to Maddow’s request for touch upon the declare, she mentioned. “We now have additionally put in a information request with the NYPD for any police report that matches what Mr. Santos described,” the anchor added.
Watch the video right here:
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