Extra particulars about US rep George Santos’ convoluted identification proceed to emerge, together with claims he dressed as drag queen “Kitara” greater than a decade in the past.
It was reported by the Substack web site “The Handbasket” that Santos, who allegedly used a number of aliases prior to now, appeared in a drag costume in a photograph from 2008.
The small print of Santos’ previous have been revealed to a reporter by a Brazilian drag queen and former buddy of Santos, Eula Rochard.
In response to the report, Santos and Rochard first met whereas Rochard was already a well-established drag queen in a Brazilian metropolis near Rio de Janeiro.
“I feel I met him when he was round 16 or 17 years outdated,” she mentioned of Santos, who used to go by Anthony again then. “He used to hang around in my home whereas his mother was enjoying Bingo.”
Anthony Devolder and Anthony Zabrovsky are reportedly aliases that Santos has used prior to now.
At present, native, state, and federal officers are wanting into the lawmaker’s intensive record of lies and his doubtful marketing campaign finance, whereas Brazilian prosecutors have reopened a 2008 fraud case towards him.
To date, Santos has resisted all requires him to resign.
After seeing Gov Santos on a Brazilian TV channel, Rochard posted the image to Instagram to show to her buddies that she knew him.
“The image was taken in 2008 on the Delight Parade at Icarai Seaside in Niteroi,” she instructed reporter Marisa Kabas. “George had disappeared for a short time after which returned to Brazil with some huge cash, and that was about the identical time when the image was taken.”
Rochard additionally claimed that Santos was by no means knowledgeable drag performer.
“He didn’t have what it takes to be knowledgeable,” she mentioned. “George didn’t have the glamour for that.”
She insisted that Santos “lied about the whole lot.”
“He used to create tales, often involving cash — like his dad was wealthy,” she recounted to Kabas. “However then folks puzzled why his mother was a cleansing woman. There’s nothing fallacious with being a cleansing woman, but when his dad was wealthy, why then?”
