Is it though? Shocking and insane?

He knows what "shocking and insane" mean, right? George Santos, I mean. I ask because that's what he called reports that he stole money raised through a GoFundMe campaign. 

"Yeah, that tracks..."

-literally everyone

Pictured: Santos, flashing a white
power symbol. because of course he is.

Wait? What do you mean, that tracks? I mean, it does, it absolutely does, but I haven't even gotten to the best, worst part: the GoFundMe campaign was for a dog. A veteran's dog. Who had cancer. The dog, that is, not the veteran. Oh, and the dog died. I mean, holy shit, only a monster would even be capable of thinking about pulling such an Omega-Level dick move. A stone cold sociopath. Not the kind of person you elect to the House of Representatives much less give two committee seats to. Except he is, and they did and did I mentioned the dog died?

And why not lie? It's not like anyone 
could possibly verify his claims.

As if being a member of the Republican Party in 2023 isn't enough to cement ones status as an absolute, rabid foam nutter, Santos has: lied about having a college degree, lied about his employment history, lied about being Jewish, lied about his mother dying in the 9/11 attacks, lied about having lost employees to the Pulse nightclub shooting, is wanted for check fraud in Brazil, and lied about being endorsed by Trump in 2020 and then contested his and Trump's election losses in that year.

What? I don't know, it's just an example.
Why would someone lie about raising money
to save a dog? I'm not the one on trial here.

So when a veteran called Rich Osthoff said that Santos offered to help them raise funds to save his dog, and then when the time came to hand over the three thousand dollars raised, gave a bunch of nonsense excuses and ultimately kept the money for himself, we believe him. Osthoff that is. Because at this point there is nothing George Santos can say, not the color of the sky or the melting point of water, that anyone, anywhere, would, at the very least, take with an enormous quantity of salt. Because that's how reputations work. 

Above: Santos, earlier today.

Santos, in a now deleted tweeted that 

"[t]he report that I would let a dog die is shocking and insane...my work in animal advocacy was the labor of love and hard work." 

-Representative George Santos

That's evidently a reference to a charitable organization he claims to have founded called, imaginatively, Friends of Pets. 

Which doesn't exist. Because of course it doesn't exist. He referenced a fraud to back up his defense of himself against accusations of lying, so either he's either elevated self-delusion to an art form, or thinks we're all dumb. 

Pictured: George Santos and Matt Gaetz taking the oath of office
which I'm sure they both took seriously. Like, super-seriously.