During a March 2020 episode of a conservative podcast—which has since been made private on YouTube—George Santos claimed he had a brain tumor. He then claimed the pandemic was over-exaggerated. Santos did not respond to claims verifying he had a tumor.
. He said while his condition resulted in a lower immune system he was still capable of fighting through a COVID-19 infection. He claimed the pandemic — which officially began the month he was interviewed — had been over-exaggerated.
“I am just shocked that the proportion that this has been blown up because I am the perfect candidate to be, you know, R.I.P., and it just didn’t happen,” Santos said at the time.an interview on the Brian Lehrer Show shortly after he won the November general election, Santos claimed that four of his employees had died during the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The incident — in which a single gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens — is considered one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
“My company, at the time, we lost four employees that work, that were at Pulse nightclub,” Santos told Lehrer. “This is a deja vu moment for me, not something that is really good even going over because it just brings back such tragic memories.”last month. The Times story stated that “a review of news coverage and obituaries found that none of the 49 victims appear to have worked at the various firms named in his biography.
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