The controversy surrounding Rep.-elect George Santos’, R-N.Y., lies about his résumé on the campaign trail has brought renewed attention to President Biden’s long history of fabrications, including embellishments about his college career that helped derail his 1988 presidential campaign.
Santos, who defeated Robert Zimmerman in the November general election, had falsely claimed he graduated from Baruch College and worked for Goldman Sachs and Citibank. After an investigation by the New York Times revealed major portions of his biography were fabricated, Santos’ purported employers confirmed to Fox News that he never worked for them, and Baruch College said he never attended there.
Santos admitted he lied in an interview Monday with the New York Post.
“I am not a criminal,” he said. “I’m embarrassed, and sorry for having embellished my résumé.”
Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., has admitted to lying about his résumé on the campaign trail.
Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., has admitted to lying about his résumé on the campaign trail. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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House Democrats, including Reps. Eric Swalwell and Ted Lieu of California and Joaquin Castro of Texas, pounced after Santos admitted to lying, calling for him to resign from Congress or be forced to do so by Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California.
For years, Biden has been criticized for fabricating stories, from claiming to having been arrested in apartheid-era South Africa to being in a helicopter that was “forced down” by Al Qaeda insurgents in Afghanistan.
Most recently, Biden was criticized after telling the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico that he had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically,” in Delaware.
In November 2021, Biden said during a speech in New Hampshire that his house burned down with his wife, Jill, inside. Weeks before that, he recounted for the fifth time during his presidency a false story about an Amtrak employee during a speech in New Jersey. The employee Biden frequently mentions actually died a year before the story was said to have taken place.
