• @CannotSleep420
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    81 year ago

    I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’

    Holy shit. This is a real human being.

    • Muad'DibberOPMA
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      61 year ago

      The stuff about his mother is deeply sad, and shows the depths of opportunism and class guilt:

      On his campaign website, Santos wrote that his mother was “the first female executive at a major financial institution” and that she worked in the South Tower of the World Trade Center and died “a few years later” after surviving the September 11, 2001 attacks.[92] On his mother’s 2003 visa application to return to the U.S. from Brazil, however, she stated that she had not been in the U.S. since 1999.[93] His mother’s actual occupation has been described as domestic worker[9] or home care nurse;[94] she described herself that way on her 2003 visa application.[95] Upon her death, a Brazilian community newspaper described her as a cook. Santos’s former roommates and friends said she spoke no English.[14] In July 2021, Santos wrote on Twitter that “9/11 claimed my mothers [sic] life”; in an October 2021 interview, he said his mother was “caught up in the ash cloud” during 9/11 but “never applied for relief” because the family could afford the medical bills; in December 2021, he wrote on Twitter that his mother had died five years earlier; in December 2022, he claimed that both of his parents survived being “down there” at the World Trade Center during 9/11.[96][97] A priest at the family’s Catholic church reported that Santos had told him the family could not afford a funeral when Santos’s mother died in 2016. The priest recalled that a collection at a memorial Mass raised a “significant” amount for the family, which he gave to Santos;[92] he also had a friend set up a GoFundMe.[98]

    • @CannotSleep420
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      51 year ago

      While Santos’s recollections of working at Goldman were enough to fool one Wall Street interlocutor in early 2022,[28] another was not deceived, because, he recalled, at a March fundraiser, Santos, after alluding to his time with the investment bank, promised that if elected he would put pressure on China, to the point of requiring the U.S. to stop repaying its debt to that country, and anyone who had worked in finance would not have suggested that, as the results would be disastrous.[105]

      This is a goldmine.