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Lee wrote:
George Santos Offers Deranged New
Explanation on “Jew-ish” Heritage
Representative George Santos
says he can prove he has Jewish
heritage, but it will have to
wait until the Ukraine war is over
The New York Republican has been
plagued by controversy since
arriving on Capitol Hill,
including over his apparent lie
that he is Jewish. Santos claims
that his grandparents were Jews
who fled persecution in Ukraine
and then again in Belgium before
settling in Brazil.
Santos insisted in a Sunday night
interview that everything he has
said about his heritage is true
and that he is trying to acquire
documentation to prove it.
Santos said he has done DNA
testing and hired genealogy
experts. Those results should be
available regardless of whether
there is a war in Ukraine or not.
He then doubled down on his claim
that he is “Jew-ish,” meaning that
he is Roman Catholic but has Jewish
heritage. Santos told Raju on Sunday
that his grandparents had Brazilian
citizenship documents forged.
But the Jewish news outlet Forward
reported in December that Santos’s
maternal grandparents were born in
Brazil, well before the Nazis came
to power in Europe, citing
genealogy websites, a 1958 local
newspaper article, and church
records from 1928. https://newrepublic.com/post/176679/george-santos-deranged-explanation-j ewish-heritage
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