- In an interview with CNN this week, George Santos, the scandalous Republican representative for New York, admitted something almost as shocking as the 23 federal charges against him: It wasn’t a Republican like former President Donald Trump who got him into politics. It was a Democrat.
- “AOC was my inspiration,” he said. “Most people don’t know that.”
- Over the course of a year reporting on him for my upcoming book, The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos,I’ve discovered that his fixation on AOC is very real. It goes a long way to explaining his sudden rise, if not the unethical things he has done to achieve his fame.
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Odd Couple: New Book Says We Can Thank AOC For Giving Us George Santos
FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters outside the Capitol, as his top political aide Vish Burra, second from right, listens, after an effort to expel Santos from the House, in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. A man who briefly worked as an aide to Santos told House investigators Wednesday, May 31, that he got his job after sending a series of payments to Burra, Santos' director of operations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
