
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Let us first agree that lying in one’s resume is an awfully bad thing to do. ; It rightfully calls into question the character of the individual.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">New York Congressman-elect George Santos bas admitted that elements of his resume were not true. ; We are not talking about an exaggeration here and there. ; Santos had quite a few resume claims that have not borne scrutiny. ; He claimed employment at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. ; According to the companies, there is no record of such employment.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Santos also listed claimed to have graduated from Baruch College and attended New York University. ; Neither institution has records of his attendance.  ; And there were more.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Santos is getting a lot of media coverage for his fictional resume. ; There are even calls for him to resign the seat in Congress upon which he has not yet sat. ; He says he is not going to do that – so he has two years to repair any damage to his reputation with the voters. ; But Democrat prosecutors are chaffing at the bit to investigate Santos. ; ;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As I saw the various reports on Santos, I thought surely someone in the media would connect his misbehavior with similar examples in the past. But noooo.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I raise that question because I know of three very prominent examples of resume enhancing. ; Is it because they are all Democrats beloved by the media? ; You can answer that for yourself.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My three examples are … (drum roll here) … President Joe Biden, Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-president-biden"><strong>President Biden</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some of you may recall that Biden repeatedly claimed that he was an honor-winning political science student. ; He was not. ; He also clamed he graduated in the top of law school class. ; He was actually near the bottom. ; He claimed to have won a full scholarship. ; He was awarded a fairly small partial scholarship.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Biden is also the guy who pumped up is oratorical reputation through plagiarism. ; When that was exposed, he was forced to withdraw from the 1988 presidential race. ; (Yep! ; Biden has been seeking the presidency since he entered the Senate at age 30.)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Senator Blumenthal</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Senator Blumenthal padded his resume with combat experience in Vietnam. He made the claim in many speeches. ; But … he never served in Vietnam. ; When confronted with the truth, The Senator admitted that he had misrepresented his military career, claiming to have merely misspoken. ; Sure, it is easy to forget that you did NOT serve in Vietnam … you were never in the country … never in any of those battles you spoke about.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I find Blumenthal’s lies particularly reprehensible because he was faking military action in which thousands of real American soldiers died – and he did it for selfish political benefit. ; We have laws against such claims. ; It is called “theft of valor.” ; But he was never brought to justice. ; He later said that he had a modest military experience latter on. ; If I recall, I think he was in the military reserves</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Senator Warren ;</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Most folks must remember Warren’s invention of Native American heritage – even to the point of claiming membership in the Cherokee and later Delaware Tribe.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The lie proved extremely helpful in her academic career. ; She was even awarded a position at Yale University based on her minority status. ; Yale proudly advertised her claim.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to the <em>Washington Post</em>, Warren declared herself to be “American Indian” on her Texas Bar registration.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While the lie worked to her advantage throughout most of her academic and political career, it did not endure the bright spotlight of a presidential campaign. ; The leaders of the Delaware Tribe demanded she stop claiming membership – because she was not a member.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For a long time, Warren refused to take a DNA test, and when she did – she claimed an unspecified distant ancestor as a Native American. ; She would not allow peer review of that claim, but a later story said it was likely Mexican ancestry. ; Warren’s fraudulent claim made it possible for candidate Donald Trump to effectively stick her with the nickname “Pocahontas.”</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Sidebar</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is interesting that Democrats would go after a gay Republican. ; (Santos is gay, if you did not know). ; I brought this up because of the cases of Massachusetts Congressmen Gerry Studds who had a sexual relationship with an underage male page. ; It was said to be consensual even though it is legally defined as statutory rape. Then there was Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, whose male hooker lover was running a prostitution operation out of the Congressman’s apartment. ; Both continued in Congress to the warm praise of their Democrat colleagues. ;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Summary ;</strong></h2>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If the Biden/Blumenthal/Warren whoppers did not end their political careers – far from it – Santos may be okay. ; But then again, he is a Republican.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, there ‘tis.</p>

Santos lied in his resume … but who else?
