One of the first questions that many of us asked when New York Congressman George Santos’s resume turned out to be almost entirely a work of fiction was how nobody had managed to figure that out before the election. Of particular interest was his claim to have college degrees from two schools where he was never awarded any sort of degree. We should offer a tip of the hat to USA Today, where they decided to take a deep dive into the incoming freshman classes of new Senators and House members to see if anyone else had been similarly embellishing their educational records. They checked the claims of 93 new members and found that nearly all of them were accurate, with only a couple of relatively minor exceptions. But they also discovered that reporters have largely stopped verifying educational records. (Yahoo News)Read More
Aside from Santos, few congressional freshmen lied about their education
