Tulsi Gabbard did not mince her words as she went after George Santos for the lies and misrepresentations he made during his successful run for Congress.
Tulsi Gabbard cornered George Santos
George Santos likely thought he would get kit glove treatment on Fox News when he appeared on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson program. Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was sitting in for Tucker. He would not be afforded said treatment. Instead, Tulsi went at him right away.
“What does the word integrity mean to you?” Gabbard asked immediately.
George Santos bloviated.
“What does it mean, though,” Gabbard cut him off and insisted. “Because the meaning of the word actually matters in practice.”
He said it means to carry oneself respectably. He said he had made a mistake. A mistake? He had a litany of lies. He claimed he was Jewish. He is not. He claimed he graduated from a University he never attended. He claimed his parents were holocaust survivors they were not. He claimed he owned rentals he did not. And those lies are just the tip of the iceberg.
George Santos loaned his campaign hundreds of thousands of dollars, which has poor traceability. And his huge income after a less-than-stellar year is suspect.
Donald Trump proved that lies do not matter to a large swath of the Republican base. All through the election, many MAGA candidates proved that in certain districts, lies had become an asset instead of a liability.