# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)

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**Created:** [February 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018 "2022-02-07T00:52:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-2/959018/6514 "2022-12-27T13:11:25Z")

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[https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume/index.html)

Some choice snippets from the article:

> GOP Rep.-elect George Santos of New York admitted in two separate interviews on Monday to lying about parts of his resume but claimed that he hasn’t committed any crimes and intends to serve in Congress.

> “I’m not going to make excuses for this, but a lot of people overstate in their resumes, or twist a little bit. … I’m not saying I’m not guilty of that,” he said.
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> Santos also admitted that he never worked directly for the financial firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as he has previously suggested, but claimed that he did do work for them through his company, telling [the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep-elect-george-santos-admits-fabricating-key-details-of-his-bio/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter) it was a “poor choice of words” to say he worked for them.

> He also told the Post that he didn’t graduate from any college or university, despite claiming he had degrees from Baruch College and New York University.
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> “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” he told the Post, adding that he owns up to that and that “we do stupid things in life.”

> “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”

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