Thread by @MatthewFoldi

NEW from me @TheSpectator:

With all the attention on #NY03's @Santos4Congress, you'd think he's the only politician to have lied his way into office

Read this thread, you're about to learn a lot about Dems from the state house to the White House

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Everywhere liberal journalists look, they see @Santos4Congress. They see him in fellow freshman Republicans Anna Paulina Luna and Andy Ogles, both of whom have recently been accused of fabricating details about the past in newspaper hit pieces.

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With the coverage of @Santos4Congress's brief tenure, you’d be forgiven if you thought the new House GOP majority was filled with liars and résumé embellishers — that’s clearly the big picture that Dems and their allies in the press paint.

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Something that curiously escapes national attention—like the multiple late-night “comedy” hours that have mocked @Santos4Congress—is that shockingly, Republicans aren’t the only ones who lie about everything from their résumés to their religions.

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Here @TheSpectator, we've cobbled together a list of Democrats whose lies have yet to receive months of breathless coverage or spawn book deals. We’re not sure why that’s the case.

Did we miss someone? Let us know!

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New York state senator @JuliaCarmel__: Fake immigrant, fake Jew

Santos’s fellow New Yorker, @SalazarSenate, came to prominence in 2018, during which the first-time candidate unseated a longterm incumbent in the Democratic primary.

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Julia @SalazarSenate campaigned as a Jewish, working-class, Colombian immigrant, Columbia grad, socialist

BUT she's Christian, middle class, has a massive trust fund, is from Miami, never graduated, and was pro-life until becoming a socialist

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Julia @SalazarSenate responded to a Jewish outlet’s investigations into her past by accusing it of practicing “race science.”

Obviously this is unhinged from @JuliaCarmel__

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Even after Salazar’s lies were exposed, future congresswoman @AOC and the @DemSocialists adamantly stood by their woman, who has been in the state legislature since 2019.

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#CTSEN @SenBlumenthal: Stolen valor in Vietnam and the Harvard swim team

Senator Dick Blumenthal has been memorably branded “Da-Nang Dick” to highlight when the longtime Democratic pol lied about serving in Vietnam.

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#CTSEN @SenBlumenthal's claims date back to at least his first of many successful US Senate bids in 2010, when he made it clear that he served in Vietnam.

“I served in Vietnam,” he said, leaving no room for equivocation.

Stolen Valor much?

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The problem? That never happened. The NYT reported #CTSEN @SenBlumenthal “never served in Vietnam,” and that “he obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war”

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While #CTSEN @SenBlumenthal's draft-dodging is mildly known, it’s not the only claim he’s lied about. In multiple profiles, he claimed to be a captain of Harvard’s swim team!

However, NYT also reports “he was never on the team.”

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#CTSEN @SenBlumenthal's college swim record has been the subject of some debate; left-wing outlets like @TPM argued that because he was a member of a recreational team (although, they concede, never a captain), that his swimming service counts.

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@SenBlumenthal @TPM It’s important to note that contemporary coverage of a recreational swim meet that #CTSEN @SenBlumenthal did partake in reveals that most of the swimmers were naked

So maybe Blumenthal swam naked in college while he wasn't actually team captain

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#IL14 @RepUnderwood: Fake nurse

In 2018, Dems seized on healthcare as the issue that would win them the House majority — and Dems like Underwood campaigned in scrubs, assuring suburban voters that they could be trusted.

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#IL14's Underwood ran ads clad in a stethoscope and bearing a clipboard, in which she spoke about her experience treating patients herself. However, Underwood had never treated patients — and actually had said she had no interest in doing so.

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“ICU or mother-baby, like that just wasn’t my interest,” @LaurenUnderwood said. “I always knew that this policy space was where I would land.”

NYT reported that she “never worked specifically with patients,” despite ads showing her doing so.

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The ad from #IL14's @LaurenUnderwood in which she treats patients itself is a core part of her invented career. Ironically, it was filmed in a dentist’s office near her parents’ house.

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#MDGOV @iamwesmoore: Serial fabulist

National Democrats are already planning for Maryland’s Wes Moore to run for president, in part due to his incredible life story, which seems too good to be true — because it is.

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#MDGOV @iamwesmoore is often portrayed, by @Oprah and his allies, as Baltimore’s native son.

He himself wrote about “coming home to Baltimore,” and his bestselling book, The Other Wes Moore, is required reading in public schools across the US.

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In his book, #MDGOV @iamwesmoore writes that he and another man named Wes Moore (who actually is from Baltimore) had “grown up at the same time, on the same streets, with the same name”

The problem? Until college Moore never lived in Baltimore!

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Per CNN, "it wasn’t until he was a twenty-year-old undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University that Moore first lived in Baltimore."

In reality, Johns Hopkins is nothing like the Baltimore where his book says the other Wes Moore is from!

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#MDGOV @iamwesmoore has famously thin skin when others point out his fictionalized backstory.

Last year, his campaign demanded a criminal investigation of one of his opponents for circulating info that undermined his “life story.”

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#MDGOV @iamwesmoore's porkies not only helped him win the governor’s mansion by a historic margin in November — they may one day propel him to the White House.

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But #MDGOV @iamwesmoore will probably never be able to shake the stigma of lying.

One Baltimore Democrat notably said that his childhood is “not growing up in Baltimore, that’s visiting Baltimore. That’s being here for the summer.”

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#CA51's @RepSaraJacobs: Nepo-grandbaby and résumé inflater

Her grandfather, the billionaire founder of Qualcomm, is a big fan.

He gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to @emilyslist's super PAC, which immediately backed her failed campaign.

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Since then, #CA51's @RepSaraJacobs herself has poured millions of her own dollars into her two successful runs.

During her first campaign, she took flak from her fellow Dems for claiming to have been a “policymaker” in the Obama admin.

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“Jacobs held a position slightly above entry-level,” it reported. In fact, it would have been illegal for her to have been a policymaker!

Jacobs, as a junior-level federal contractor, “was prohibited by federal regulations from making policy.”

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Ex-#SC01's @JoeCunninghamSC: engineering intern

On the campaign trail, Cunningham told South Carolinians that he had been an ocean engineer for a “number of years,” when in fact he was an intern in Florida, according to public records.

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Cunningham may even have broken the law in his 2018 #SC01 campaign, where an actual engineer in South Carolina contended that the candidate illegally referred to himself as an “engineer” despite not being registered as an engineer or a firm.

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Ex-#FL18 @PatrickMurphyFL: Neither a practicing CPA nor a small-business owner

Rep. Patrick Murphy--or should we say, Erin Murphy-- claimed throughout his career that his “background as a CPA and a small business owner is exactly what we need.”

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But CBS Miami reported “he has never worked a day in his life as a [CPA]. And he was never a small business owner.”

CBS actually marveled at his rise: “Murphy’s rise is extraordinary because of how little he seems to have accomplished”

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Prior to his runs for Congress, which his father donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to, Murphy went by his middle name Erin!

He also was a Republican until shortly before he decided to run for Congress in 2012, as @BrentScher reported.

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During his failed #FLSEN campaign in 2016, @PatrickMurphyFL took weekends off to vacation on his father’s 97 foot yacht, named Cocktails.

“What’s so wrong about taking the Fourth of July weekend off?” one of his pals asked at the time.

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#MASEN @SenWarren: Fake Native American

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the author of many noteworthy books and articles, including The Two-Income Trap. Warren is also, perhaps more infamously, the author of the “Pow Wow Chow” recipe.

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For decades, @ewarren claimed to be a Native American, using it to get ahead.

But like Rachel Dolezal, she was finally caught. @Harvard even traded off of her false ancestry claims when it was under fire for being insufficiently diverse!

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(36/xx)

The decades of Native American cultural appropriation have never really hamstrung @ewarren's career though; they did, however, culminate in Warren taking a DNA test that revealed that she has as little as 1/1,024th Native American ancestry.

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Hilariously, #MASEN @ewarren's ancestors actually STAFFED THE TRAIL OF TEARS!

One aspect of her family history that she has not bragged about is that her ancestor, Jonathan Crawford, “rounded up Cherokees for the trail of tears,” per Breitbart!

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#GASEN @SenOssoff: Résumé puffery

While Ossoff was campaigning unsuccessfully for a House seat, he told voters that “I’ve got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the US Congress. I held top secret security clearance.”

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(39/xx)

While he was clear in making two separate claims–having five years as a staffer and a top secret security clearance, WaPo found he was a bit too cute by half. @Ossoff had his security clearance for less than half a year, it turns out.

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While Ossoff did have a surprising amount of influence as a college student working on the Hill, the Post nevertheless dinged him for “declaring himself a ‘senior national security staffer’ [which] is also [a] bit too much résumé puffery.”

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#NJ03's @AndyKimNJ: More résumé puffery

@Ossoff isn’t the only Democrat that the Washington Post has accused of “résumé puffery.” And unlike Ossoff, Andy Kim won his first election, despite lying about his national security work.

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While running in one of the most competitive seats in America, Kim played up his bipartisan bona fides by claiming in an ad that he was “a national security officer for Republican and Democratic presidents.”

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Kim's work for Obama is unquestioned; however, the extent of his work in the Bush admin was a “USAID job [that] was an entry-level position, [he] held it for only five months, [and the job was] low on the totem pole.”

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In #NJ03 @AndyKimNJ's case, “it seems,” the Post concluded, “like a classic case of résumé puffery.”

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#MI11's @HaleyLive: The chief of staff who wasn’t

Cars are huge in Michigan, so it’s no surprise that when Stevens was first running for Congress that she played up her role in the Treasury Department’s task force that bailed out automakers.

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“I’m Haley Stevens and I was chief of staff to President Obama’s auto rescue,” @HaleyLive claimed in ads during the 2018 cycle.

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However, personnel records obtained by @AmericaRising list @HaleyLive's titles as “special assistant” and “confidential assistant,” contradicting Stevens and her allies, who claim she acted as chief of staff.

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SecState @HillaryClinton: Courage Under (Non-existent) Sniper Fire

In the same way @PeteButtigieg hoped that being transportation sec would ease his POTUS path, Clinton assumed that traveling as SecState would guarantee her a promotion

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Clinton traveled almost a million miles in that role, but one of her most infamous trips came while she was first lady.

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“I remember landing under sniper fire,” @HillaryClinton bragged in 2008. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

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Of course, none of that happened on her 1996 trip. In fact, fact-checkers concluded that “a review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the first lady.”

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In fact, “Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling US and Bosnian officials. An 8-year-old Muslim girl...read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph...shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.”

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This gets us to President Joe Biden, our liar in chief

Biden’s lies are breathtaking, and impossible to fully list.

He famously dropped out of the 1988 presidential race (a race @ComfortablySmug loves) after his plagiarism was exposed.

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Of course, @JoeBiden's plagiarism and lying haven't stopped in the years since.

Here’s @TheSpectator's list of just a few of the lies that Biden has told over his decades in elected office.

Here we go...

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Biden falsely claimed his ‘helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains’ near bin Laden’s lair. In reality, it encountered a snowstorm, as @alanagoodman reported

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Biden falsely claimed that both he was a coal miner and that his ancestors were coal miners. He told an audience of actual coal miners, ‘I hope you won’t hold it against me, but I am a hard-coal miner, anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania.’

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Embarrassingly, his campaign said that he was joking. In his 1988 campaign, he plagiarized Welsh politician Neil Kinnock’s speech when he claimed that his ancestors were coal miners. Unlike Biden, Kinnock’s ancestors actually were coal miners!

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Biden falsely claimed that he graduated in the top half of his class at Syracuse’s law school. Eventually, he was forced to admit that he graduated seventy-sixth out of eighty-five

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Biden falsely claimed to have predicted the 9/11 terrorist attacks the day before.

While Biden did predict that America was at risk of an airborne terrorist attack, he was strictly referring to one in the context of biological warfare

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Biden falsely claimed he was ‘shot at’ in the Green Zone while visiting Iraq. In reality, a mortar landed near his hotel

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Biden falsely claimed that he awarded his uncle a long overdue Purple Heart while he was serving as vice president. ‘When I got elected vice president, [my dad] said, “Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge,”’ Biden claimed.

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This is INSANE: ‘So we got [uncle Frank] the Purple Heart.’ Joe Biden was elected vice president in 2008.

His father died in 2002, and his uncle Frank died in 1999.

Literally could never have happened

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Biden falsely claimed that he was the first in his family to go to college, even though he has acknowledged in the past that his relatives on his mother’s side had gone to college.

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Biden falsely claims to have been a civil rights activist, and that he ‘participated in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in my state.’ Ironically, his own words contradict those claims...

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After Biden dropped out of the 1988 election, he admitted that his only civil-rights experience was working at an all-black swimming pool. ‘I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans,’ he said

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Biden falsely claimed that he was ‘raised in the black church,’ which actual members of the church he claimed to have attended have disputed, as @alanagoodman also reported

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During his 1988 campaign, Biden falsely claimed he marched on Selma.

In 2013, he said during a Selma visit that ‘I should have been here. It’s one of the regrets that I have and many in my generation have,’ as @alanagoodman once again reported

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Biden falsely claimed that he was arrested while going to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa. In reality, ‘there is no evidence to prove that Biden was arrested in South Africa in the 1970s while trying to visit Mandela’

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“I exaggerate when I’m angry,” Biden acknowledged over thirty years ago. It’s almost impressive that he’s stayed mad this long.

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