Republican George Santos faced hostility on Fox News for the lies he told to get elected to Congress.
The New York representative-elect admitted in a series of interviews Monday that he lied about his work experience, college education and heritage. During his campaign, he claimed to have worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and to have graduated from Baruch College in New York, but neither of those organizations had records of him. He also called himself a “proud American Jew.” When asked by the New York Post, he said he is Catholic and has never claimed to be Jewish, telling the paper, “Because I found out my maternal family was of Jewish descent, I said I was ‘Jewish.’
He called the lies an “embellishment of my resume” — and so far he’s faced little to no pushback from GOP leadership.
But on Fox News Tuesday, he faced a stinging rebuttal from former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate turned Tucker Carlson replacement.
“A lie is not a resume enhancer,” Gabbard told her host. “These are blatant lies and I question how your constituents and the American people can believe anything you say when you sit on the floor of the House of Representatives.”
Santos tried to frame the discussion as a debate about his resume, but Gabbard cut him off: “Is it questionable or is it just fake?”
Elsewhere in the interview, Gabbard asked Santos, “Aren’t you ashamed?”
He didn’t respond and immediately moved on to attack the Democrats.
The interview ended when Gabbard interrupted her host to complain that “everybody just wants to push me and call me a liar.”
“I gave you a lot of time. I think the time is right [to] the people of the third New York [congressional district]Gabber said. “It is hard to imagine how they can trust your explanations when you are not even willing to admit to them the depth of your deception.”
Gabbard is a frequent guest on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and has been a guest several times. She joined the conservative network as a paid contributor last month. In October, he left the Democratic Party after years of drifting to the political right and adopting increasingly far-right talking points.
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