Audacity trumps truth for the Talented Mr Santos

When George Santos set about concocting his campaign biography, he did so with all the fidelity of a Russian internet troll creating an online dating profile.

Seeking election as a congressman in Long Island, the Catholic, Brazil-born Santos said he was “a proud American Jew” and claimed that his maternal grandparents had escaped Nazi persecution in Belgium. Later, after The Forward found that these grandparents had been born in Brazil, Santos described himself to another newspaper as “Jew-ish” instead.