Here’s what happened: Last December, then-candidate George Santos tweeted this (the original tweet has been deleted, but this was the text): He then followed that up with some more explanation, and that tweet somehow still exists: Last year my gas tank was $54. 54×3=162 162×52=8,424 Joe Biden’s policies made my expenses go up $4,524.00 and that America is only on gas! America can’t afford Joe and his socialist agenda. — George Santos (@Santos4Congress) December 11, 2021
— George Santos (@Santos4Congress) December 13, 2021 This all seemed weird to me at the time, and we later, with the help of readers, were able to determine that Santos drove a Nissan Pathfinder, which has a 21.1 gallon gas tank and gas mileage of 13 city/18 mpg highway for the V8. So, if this dude really filled up his tank three times a week, like he claimed, he’d be driving, oh, about 260 miles per tank, so 780 miles per week. That’s on the low end of the mpg scale. At 15 mpg, full tank three times a week is close to 900 miles. Santos lives in Long Island. There’s 780 miles of road on Long Island. So, if what this guy was saying is true, he’d have to drive every inch of road in Long Island every week, plus a bit extra. [Editor’s Note: I’d just like to pop in here and say that “Politician lies” is kinda obvious and I’d rather keep our articles away from politics, but JT really, really wanted a victory lap, here. And I can’t tell him no, so just bear with us please. -DT]. But, it’s clearly not true. He’d never leave his car! Anyway, I called this jackass out way back then, and he won his race anyway, so good for him, except now everyone is noticing that his resumé and records of his past works seem to be full of fabrications and lies, ranging from a fake animal charity to all this stuff mentioned by the BBC, who I picked because, you know, they don’t have skin in this game: As has been pointed out, Winston Churchill didn’t say that quote. Victor Hugo said it, only in French. Come on, dude, at least try. Santos did issue a statement via his attorney about all this: It is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill famously stated, ‘You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in you life.’” So, yeah, pay attention to what people say about their gas mileage. If they’re lying about that, don’t vote them into congress.
