Anthony Weiner criticizes ‘cringeworthy’ interview with George Santos amid campaign scrutiny
Brady Knox
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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) criticized a “cringeworthy” interview Rep.-elect George Santos gave with State and City’s Skye Ostreicher.
Weiner, who resigned in disgrace in 2011 amid a sexting scandal and then served nearly a year and a half in prison for sending obscene material to a minor, has reemerged in the public eye this year. He hosts a radio show on WABC with former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Silwa.
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Shortly after the November midterm elections, he interviewed Santos on his radio show, according to the New York Times. Weiner scrutinized some of his resume claims in a harbinger of what was to come. And Weiner took to Twitter to criticize another interview with Santos — this time with Ostreicher.
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“He is struggling. It’s hard to watch for me,” Weiner tweeted. “The Jew-ish part at 16:25 is cringeworthy.”
In the interview with Ostreicher, Santos admitted he was lying on several points and apologized, but he also gave complicated defenses for his other falsehoods. He repeated his claim that he was only “Jew-ish,” the “cringeworthy” part that Weiner referenced.
Weiner interviewed Santos again Monday, during which he changed his story from the previous interview the month before. In his first appearance, Santos defended his claim that his company lost four employees in the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting, but on Monday, he said that the four killed were only going to start working there but hadn’t begun yet.
“We did lose four people that were going to be coming to work for the company that I was starting up in Orlando,” he said. The New York Times was unable to find evidence for his claim.
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An investigation from the New York Times found that Santos had deliberately lied about numerous parts of his life, including claims that his grandparents were Ukrainian Jewish Holocaust survivors, that he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and that he was Jewish, among many other things. Soon after, he admitted to lying on several parts of his resume in an interview with the New York Post, and he said other falsehoods were the result of miscommunication.
Numerous Republicans and Democrats have called on Santos to resign since the revelations were made public.