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George 'Jew-ish' Santos gets to vote on whether or not Ilhan Omar is antisemitic [1]

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Date: 2023-01-25  

Santos has lied about everything from his mother being Jewish to his mother being killed in the World Trade Center bombings on Sept. 11, 2001. Most of his lies have been pretty egregious, but his lie about being Jewish—a claim he made along with another lie that his grandparents were both Jewish and murdered during the Holocaust—is probably the most often repeated because of the bizarreness of his attempted work-around. “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the New York Post when his claims of Jewish ancestry were debunked. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”

That guy gets to vote on whether or not … that guys gets a vote in our House of Representatives. On Wednesday, Santos told Business Insider that he wasn’t sure how he would vote on the Omar question, and when pressed about whether or not he had decided, added "Not yet. No. But we'll get back to you, we'll get back to you."

Earlier today, McCarthy was a snarling impotent mess when confronted by a reporter who had the gall to point out the irony in giving George Santos, the pathological liar from New York’s Nassau County, a committee position while saying he was taking away Rep. Adam Schiff’s committee assignments because of (not) lying about how much of a dirtbag criminal Donald Trump is.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has tried to maintain the poise and matter-of-fact honesty that got her elected, telling reporters that she will not let up on criticizing the new speaker because he is a joke of a person. "Kevin McCarthy's purely partisan move to strip us from our committee is not only a political stunt, but also a blow to the integrity of our democratic institution and threat to our national security,” she said. Omar added that if McCarthy is willing and able to bring this kind of vote to the floor then she welcomes it, because it is an important thing for the public to see.

"I do believe that when and if this vote comes, it will be a moment of clarity. And I hope that many of these Republicans will have conscience and will not prove to their constituents and the American people just how much of partisan hacks they are, how much hypocrisy that they have and show themselves to be a disgrace."

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