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Ron Nehring

Dec 28 • 12 tweets • 2 min read

The #GeorgeSantos scandal continues to spin out of control and is getting worse. Here’s why. 🧵

First, the severity of the fraud is breathtaking. This isn’t a little resume embellishment. It’s making up his entire life story, the centerpiece of his campaign. This isn’t exaggerating about some obscure point — the whole life is a lie.

Second, every step he has taken since the NYT story broke has made the problem worse. It’s exactly what not to do.

His initial response was to attack the NYTimes, while doing nothing to confront the allegations made. This extends the scandal’s life by passing up a chance to end it.

Then, he admits part of his story was a lie, while defending other parts without proof. This extends the scandal another day, leading reporters to dig deeper into what he did not admit to. Guarantees another round of stories.

He goes unprepared on Tucker Carlson’s show, only to have Tulai Gabbard smack him around. Extends the story another day. Now his reactions are stories, prolonging the scandal.

His answers about where he suddenly got “million dollar contracts” to fund his House campaign strain all credibility. The guy couldn’t pay small credit card bills just a few years ago.

Now he says he got these contracts in MAY of 2022, while a candidate and just in time for him to “loan” the funds to his campaign.

How much “work” was he doing for these contracts while in the midst of an uphill House campaign in a D district? I have questions.

I’m not going to tweet out any free advice for how he should handle this. I think he’s a crook and a clown and I want to see him out as fast as possible to limit the damage to my party.

Nobody smart in the GOP will defend him because he has shown terrible judgment both before the NYT story AND after. Response is so bad nobody will believe he’s reached the end of it. Risk too high there will be more bombs to drop.

A few who sensationalize to monetize will defend him because…we all know why. It would be more surprising if they didn’t. But the majority won’t stick their necks out for this guy.

In EVERY district there are MANY Republicans who can be a good Congressman. In no district do we have to resort to nominating and defending some liar. He’s not the best we can do in that district.

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