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Gee Santos impli he drsed drag but ni ever beg a 'drag queen'& target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="styl_lk__RsJVU"><span class="in in-share-email"></span></a></li><li data-ttid="social-share-py" class="styl_em__b5A78 styl_py__RACZ3"><button type="button" class="styl_button__b3sx_"><span class="in in-lk"></span></button><div class="styl_pyTooltip__Ut_t1"><span class="in in-alt-check"></span></div></li><li data-ttid="social-share-sms" class="styl_em__b5A78 styl_sms__Vohh6"><a href="sms:?&body=Rep. Gee Santos impli he drsed drag but ni ever beg a 'drag queen' via nbews - target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="styl_lk__RsJVU"><span class="in in-sms"></span></a></li><li data-ttid="social-share-prt" class="styl_prt__cw6Gn"><button type="button" class="styl_button__b3sx_"><span class="in in-share-prt styl_in__P3XZT"></span><span class="styl_text___8iNX">Prt</span></button></li><li data-ttid="social-share-save" class="styl_save__ILVuj"></li></ul></div><div class="article-body__date-source"><time class="relative z-1" dateTime="2023-01-23T18:19:55.711Z" ntent="2023-01-23T18:19:55.711Z">Jan. 19, 2023, 6:19 PM UTC<span> / </span>Updated<!-- --> <!-- -->Jan. 23, 2023, 6:19 PM UTC</time></div><div class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Matt Laviet</a></span>, <span class="byle-name">Isabela Espadas Barros Leal</span>, <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Kate Santaliz</a></span> and <span class="byle-name">Olympia Sonnier</span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Embattled Republin Rep. Gee Santos said claims that he had performed as a drag queen are “tegorilly false.” His nial shortly after a Brazilian drag performer shared on social media an image of herself and another person drag, whom she intified as the newly sworn- ngrsman om New York.</p><p class="">“The most recent obssn om the media claimg that I am a drag Queen or ‘performed’ as a drag Queen is tegorilly false,” Santos, who has been the subject of ternatnal headl for weeks for fabritg parts of his résumé, <a href=">tweeted</a> Thursday morng. “The media ntu to make outrageo claims about my life while I am workg to liver rults.”</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-twter" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-twter iamely-app iamely-embed" style="max-width: 550px;"><div class="iamely-rponsive"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">However, when qutned by media outlets on Saturday, Santos appeared to soften his nial and imply that he had, fact, drsed drag the past. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">“No, I was not a drag queen Brazil, guys. I was young and I had fun at a ftival. Sue me for havg a life,” Santos told reporters as he walked through New York's LaGuardia Airport. His remarks were rerd and then shared onle by multiple outlets.</p><p class="">Earlier this month, Brazilian drag artist Eula Rochard posted an image on Facebook and Instagram of herself wh a person wearg a red feathery drs, bright red lipstick and danglg chanlier earrgs. Rochard, who is intified as Eula Rorard the photo, claims the other person drag went by the stage name Kara Ravache and is, fact, Santos. </p><p class="">“Me wh the Amerin Republin ngrsman who wouldn’t leave my hoe,” Rochard wrote Portugue on the Facebook post. “Whoever said I was a liar be your tongue.”</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn fb-post" data-href=" data-show-text="te" data-width="to"></div></sectn><p class="">NBC News has not penntly verified the imag posted on Rochard’s social media acunts, which she said origally appeared a Brazilian newspaper 2008. As of Thursday afternoon, the imag had been wily circulated on social media and news webs. </p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Journalist Joâo Fragah told NBC News he had terviewed Kara Ravache an exchange <a href=" target="_blank">ptured on vio</a>. </p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Fragah said he was very nfint Santos was the person he terviewed and was the same person the photos Rochard shared. However, the journalist noted that the terview was done a long time ago.</p><p class="">Fragah said the performer had been "name-droppg" and tryg to get the media's attentn when the terview took place.</p><p class="">Rochard told NBC News that she met Santos about 2005 and last saw him 2008 through Nerói’s gay muny, but add that she only knew him by his drag name, Kara Ravache, and Anthony (Santos has gone by var batns of the name Gee Anthony Devolr Santos, the full name listed on a <a href=">Feral Electn Commissn filg om 2019</a>). Rochard said she saw a photo of Santos as a recently elected U.S. lawmaker a Brazilian news outlet and regnized him. When asked why she cid to post the image that she claims to be of herself and Santos, she said, “Bee I wanted to.”</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">Rochard, who scribed herself as the “RuPl” of Brazil, said she knew Santos when he was “g up” the drag world and said she was a mentor to him. She scribed him as havg an “outgrown sense of granur” and add that “he lied all the time.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Rochard’s claims about Santos, who has posned himself as a nservative Republin and has aligned himself wh some of the party’s most hard-right lawmakers, e as the GOP has thst the centuri-old art form of drag to the center of the simmerg culture war. </p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Rep. Gee Santos, R-N.Y., leav the Capol followg a vote on Jan. 12, 2023." height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Rep. Gee Santos, R-N.Y., leav the Capol after a vote on Jan. 12.</span><span class="ptn__source">Samuel Com / Sipa USA via AP file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">At least six stat are nsirg bills this term that would ban mors om attendg drag performanc and seek to classify any bs that hosts drag shows as a baret or a “sexually oriented bs,” acrdg to an<a href="> NBC News analysis</a> of new legislatn targetg LGBTQ rights and queer life.</p><p class="">Among the legislatn is a Tennsee bill that would ban drag queens om performg on public or private property the prence of a mor. If enacted, repeat offenrs uld be charged wh a felony and face up to six years prison.</p><p class="">The anti-LGBTQ legislatn also cis wh a recent wave of far-right protts and threats directed at drag events.</p><p class="">Last year, there were at least 141 protts and signifint <a href=">threats aimed at drag events</a> 48 stat, <a href=">acrdg to LGBTQ advocy group GLAAD</a>. And a report om the Crowd Countg Consortium, a public tert and scholarly project that documents crowds and ntentn the U.S., found a steep crease anti-LGBTQ monstratns over the past two years, wh a mon target last year beg drag-related events.</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-datawrapper" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-datawrapper-dwcdn iamely-app iamely-embed"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="height: 400px; paddg-bottom: 0;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">A lawyer for Santos did not return NBC News’ requt for ment regardg the ngrsman’s stance on the proposed polici related to drag performanc. In a prev terview, <a href=">Santos told NBC News</a> that he se no ntradictn between his inty as a gay man and his party’s policy stanc, sayg, “I have never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Qutns over Santos’ bgraphy first epted on Dec. 19, when <a href=">The New York Tim published a bombshell vtigatn</a> qutng whether he fabrited aspects of his tn, work history and fanc. Santos later admted to “<a href=">embellishg</a>” his qualifitns and apologized for havg done so. </p><p class="endmark">Democratic lawmakers, as well as <a href=">several Republins, </a>have sce lled for Santos to rign. </p></div><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Matt Laviet</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-twter"></span></a><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div 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Rep. Gee Santos, R-N.Y., the newly sworn- gay ngrsman who has sparked natnal outrage for fabritg parts of his rume, may have omted one of his job qualifitns om voters: drag queen.

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GEE SANTOS, OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT, WAS MARRIED TO A WOMAN UNTIL 2019

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The openly gay ngrsman-elect acced of lyg about his profsnal reer fance and his llege tn also failed to disclose his recent divorce om a woman and appears to have ma up tails about his fay pg the the 2022 electn cycle, Republin Gee Santos of New York scribed himself as beg gay and married to his pharmacist hband.

JE SANTOS’ WIKI: IS CHRISTA AGUILERA’S EX-BOYIEND GAY? THE TTH ABOUT THE MAN “INFATUATN” IS REALLY ABOUT!

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It is unclear whether the child is was on the ballot agast Democratic bsman Robert Zimmerman, who is also gay, and beat him by eight pots November New York's 3rd ngrsnal district, which vers part of northern Long Island and northeast addn, The Forward earlier reported that Santos, who has prevly scribed himself as a non-observant Jew and Catholic, fabrited his fay history. Santos was the first out gay Republin elected to the U.

In October, Santos told USA Today an terview: 'I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. 'Gee Santos reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by - a gay, Lato, first-generatn Amerin and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party, ' Murray said a statement tweeted out by Santos.

DEMOCRATS ASK IF GEE SANTOS IS REALLY GAY AFTER REPORT HE MARRIED WOMAN

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She didn’t mentn him by name, but many have already been puttg the piec together and are now askg, “Is Je Santos gay? She add that she found out that he was gay and he broke her heart. Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Reprentative-elect Gee Santos, a New York Republin, is gay after a report emerged that he was married to a woman.

Democratic Reprentativ Rchie Torr of New York, who is openly gay, and Ted Li of California shared an article by the Daily Beast on Thursday that said Santos didn't publicly mentn a prev marriage to a woman. I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year, " Torr tweeted on ’ve got to be kiddg me.

I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year.

IS GEE SANTOS GAY? CONFN OVER REPUBLIN REP’S MARRIED STAT

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Santos appears to have been volved an undisclosed divorce om a woman September of 2019, acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by the Daily October, Santos vowed to advote for LGBTQ dividuals and told USA Today at the time: "I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks. Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Santos is gay after a report emerged statg that he was married to a woman. "Listen, at this pot I'm hopg he lied about beg gay bee we don't want him, " Reprentative-elect Robert Garcia, who is also openly gay, tweeted on Wednday and shared the Daily Beast article on Thursday a tweeted ment.

Meanwhile, Jewish Insir published an article that ced rerds showg discrepanci his claims about his Jewish herage and that he scend om people who fled the didn't ny any of the rmatn mentned by The New York Tim, but his attorney, Joseph Murray, said a statement on Monday that the "Left" is threatened by the electn of a gay nservative Lato, acrdg to Insir.

So, is Gee Santos gay and what’s the nfn over his married stat? CNN reports Santos as sayg he merely “embellished” his MORE: MICHAEL B JORDAN’S ‘HEAD TURNED’ BY BRITISH MODEL AFTER LORI HARVEY SPLITPhoto by WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty ImagIs Gee Santos gay?

‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMAN

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Y, Gee Santos is gay. He beme the first openly gay non-cumbent Republin ndidate elected to has been cricized for supportg Florida’s so-lled Don’t Say Gay Bill, which was signed to law this year by Republin Governor Ron DeSantis. Speakg about the bill, Santos told USA Today  October 2022: “I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks.

Photo Illtratn by Thomas Levson/The Daily Beast/GettyRepublin ngrsman-elect Gee Santos is unr new scty after a New York Tim report earlier this week unvered a strg of apparent outright fabritns at the heart of some of the most fundamental facts of his life, but that backstory may also be notable for what Santos did not clu—a publicly undisclosed, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” broke barriers this year when he beme the first openly gay non-cumbent GOP ndidate elected to acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by The Daily Beast, Santos appears to be the subject of a prevly unacknowledged Sept. “I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks, ” Santos told USA Today October, rpondg to cricism about his support for Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay Bill” signed to law this year by GOP Gov.

And while his 2022 mpaign b mentns his hband, who acrdg to Santos liv wh him and their four dogs on Long Island, he’s kept this prev marriage out of the public eye ’s entirely possible that Santos, who claims he has “never experienced discrimatn the Republin Party, ” has been livg fortably as an openly gay man for, as he says, more than a .

GEE SANTOS SAYS HE HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN GAY AND STUMBL OVER HIS ANNIVERSARY DATE A NEW TERVIEW WH PIERS MAN

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But Santos’ suatn is cur bee he never disclosed his divorce to voters, and never renciled his prr marriage to a woman—which end jt 12 days before he tablished his first ngrsnal mpaign—wh his claims of beg an out and proud gay, 34, ma his first bid for Congrs 2020, losg to Rep. But followg a New York Tim vtigatn that suggted Santos had fictnalized key elements of his rume, he’s already facg lls to rign, as well as a possible ethics lleg Santos says he attend don’t have a rerd of him; Cigroup and Goldman Sachs don’t eher, though he claimed to work there; the IRS has no rerd of his nonprof; he still fac “unrolved” legal trouble Brazil; his past bs ventur appear flimsy; and even his addrs was lled to rponse to the Tim report, Santos’ attorney Joseph Murray released a statement that, while stoppg short of nyg the accatns, pated his client as a victim, bee he “reprents the kd of progrs that the Left is so threatened by—a gay, Lato, immigrant and Republin who won a Bin district overwhelmg fashn by showg everyday voters that there is a better optn than the broken promis and failed polici of the Democratic Party.

”But the divorce revelatn, and the apparent secrecy around , plit a central piece of the image Santos has burnished as a dynamic and culturally revolutnary an electn season where many of his fellow nservativ spouted nonsensil allegatns of pedophilia among Democrats, targeted benign drag bnch as epicenters for “groomg, ” and flamed a hateful anti-gay and anti-trans movement—as attacks on the LGBTQ muny skyrocketed—Santos ma history as the first non-cumbent gay Republin to ever be elected to after achievg that victory, and jt two weeks before his barrier-breakg guratn, Santos’ relatnship wh the tth is facg tts he somehow dodged for two mpaigns. Rochard, who liv Brazil, shared an image wh ABC News that Rochard said is a photo of Rochard wh Santos drsed drag as Kara Ravache, om a Brazilian newspaper, Gro Gay.

GAY MAGA REPUBLIN GEE SANTOS WS HOE RACE

Oh y, he was such a liar, " Rochard this 2008 photo om the Brazilian newspaper Gro Gay, drag queen Eula Rochard, left, appears drag wh a man who he says is Gee Santos, now a U.

Reprentative om New GayRochard did not rell Santos ever havg polil ambns when Rochard knew him. Acrdg to Rochard, Santos registered to be a part of a 2008 "Miss Gay R Janeiro" drag queen petn, but "he did not w Miss Drag Queen ntt. "Santos, who has been wily cricized for fabritg much of his rume, ran New York as an openly gay jog Congrs, Santos has aligned himself wh the far-right wg of the Republin Party, which has targeted the drag queen muny and phed polici that LGBTQ activists have voiced support as recently as last April for Florida Republins' Parental Rights Edutn bill, HB 1557, which was dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ Gee Santos leav the Capol, Jan.

CHRISTA AGUILERA REVEALS WHICH 'STRIPPED' TRACK WAS ABOUT AN EX-GAY LOVER

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GOP REP-ELECT GEE SANTOS REPORTEDLY DIVORCED A WOMAN 2 WEEKS BEFORE NNG FOR OFFICE 2019 SPE SUGGTG HE'S BEEN 'OPENLY GAY' FOR A

Who Is Gee Santos’s Gay Partner Now? It is no longer a secret that Santos is an openly gay polician.

In fact, he is the first openly gay non-cumbent Republin elected to Congrs.

‘OPENLY GAY’ REP.-ELECT GEE SANTOS DIDN’T DISCLOSE DIVORCE WH WOMANCATCH ME IF YOU CANSANTOS RAN HIS MPAIGN AS AN OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN. SCE HE WAS ELECTED, A NUMBER OF KEY BGRAPHIL TAILS HAVE STARTED TO CMBLE. HERE’S THE LATT ONE.ROGER SOLLENBERGERSENR POLIL REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 22, 2022 12:07PM EST EXCLIVEPHOTO ILLTRATN BY THOMAS LEVSON/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYREPUBLIN NGRSMAN-ELECT GEE SANTOS IS UNR NEW SCTY AFTER A NEW YORK TIM REPORT EARLIER THIS WEEK UNVERED A STRG OF APPARENT OUTRIGHT FABRITNS AT THE HEART OF SOME OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL FACTS OF HIS LIFE, BUT THAT BACKSTORY MAY ALSO BE NOTABLE FOR WHAT SANTOS DID NOT CLU—A PUBLICLY UNDISCLOSED MARRIAGE.SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” BROKE BARRIERS THIS YEAR WHEN HE BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY NON-CUMBENT GOP NDIDATE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT ACRDG TO URT RERDS OBTAED BY THE DAILY BEAST, SANTOS APPEARS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF A PREVLY UNACKNOWLEDGED SEPT. 2019 DIVORCE WH A WOMAN QUEENS COUNTY, NEW YORK. THE DIVORCE—WHICH SANTOS HAS NOT DISCSED PUBLICLY—ADDS NEW UNCERTATY TO HIS ALREADY SHAKY BGRAPHIL AND POLIL CLAIMS.“I AM OPENLY GAY, HAVE NEVER HAD AN ISSUE WH MY SEXUAL INTY THE PAST , AND I N TELL YOU AND ASSURE YOU, I WILL ALWAYS BE AN ADVOTE FOR LGBTQ FOLKS,” SANTOS TOLD USA TODAY OCTOBER, RPONDG TO CRICISM ABOUT HIS SUPPORT FOR FLORIDA’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY BILL” SIGNED TO LAW THIS YEAR BY GOP GOV. RON DESANTIS. LS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER HIS DIVORCE WAS FALIZED, SANTOS FILED THE OFFICIAL PAPERWORK TO LNCH HIS 2020 MPAIGN. AND WHILE HIS 2022 MPAIGN B MENTNS HIS HBAND, WHO ACRDG TO SANTOS LIV WH HIM AND THEIR FOUR DOGS ON LONG ISLAND, HE’S KEPT THIS PREV MARRIAGE OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE ENTIRELY.IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT SANTOS, WHO CLAIMS HE HAS “NEVER EXPERIENCED DISCRIMATN THE REPUBLIN PARTY,” HAS BEEN LIVG FORTABLY AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN FOR, AS HE SAYS, MORE THAN A . PEOPLE GET MARRIED FOR UNTLS REASONS. BUT SANTOS’ SUATN IS CUR BEE HE NEVER DISCLOSED HIS DIVORCE TO VOTERS, AND NEVER RENCILED HIS PRR MARRIAGE TO A WOMAN—WHICH END JT 12 DAYS BEFORE HE TABLISHED HIS FIRST NGRSNAL MPAIGN—WH HIS CLAIMS OF BEG AN OUT AND PROUD GAY REPUBLIN.SANTOS, 34, MA HIS FIRST BID FOR CONGRS 2020, LOSG TO REP. TOM SUOZZI (D-NY) BEFORE TOPPLG DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT ROBERT ZIMMERMAN THIS YEAR. BUT FOLLOWG A NEW YORK TIM VTIGATN THAT SUGGTED SANTOS HAD FICTNALIZED KEY ELEMENTS OF HIS RUME, HE’S ALREADY FACG LLS TO RIGN, AS WELL AS A POSSIBLE ETHICS VTIGATN.THE LLEG SANTOS SAYS HE ATTEND DON’T HAVE A RERD OF HIM; CIGROUP AND GOLDMAN SACHS DON’T EHER, THOUGH HE CLAIMED TO WORK THERE; THE IRS HAS NO RERD OF HIS NONPROF; HE STILL FAC “UNROLVED” LEGAL TROUBLE BRAZIL; HIS PAST BS VENTUR APPEAR FLIMSY; AND EVEN HIS ADDRS WAS LLED TO QUTN.IN RPONSE TO THE TIM REPORT, SANTOS’ ATTORNEY JOSEPH MURRAY RELEASED A STATEMENT THAT, WHILE STOPPG SHORT OF NYG THE ACCATNS, PATED HIS CLIENT AS A VICTIM, BEE HE “REPRENTS THE KD OF PROGRS THAT THE LEFT IS SO THREATENED BY—A GAY, LATO, IMMIGRANT AND REPUBLIN WHO WON A BIN DISTRICT OVERWHELMG FASHN BY SHOWG EVERYDAY VOTERS THAT THERE IS A BETTER OPTN THAN THE BROKEN PROMIS AND FAILED POLICI OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.” THE TIM STORY SET OFF A RAPID-FIRE ROUND OF CRICISM THAT EXTEND NOT JT TO THE NGRSMAN-ELECT, BUT TO DEMOCRATIC OPPOSN REARCHERS, REPUBLIN VETTERS, AND MEDIA WHO HAD NOT LLED ATTENTN TO THE NOW-GLARG HOL HIS STORY BEFORE THE ELECTN.WHILE THOSE TAILS WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED DURG THE MPAIGN, THE TIM VTIGATN PROMPTED REPORTERS AND TER SLTHS AROUND THE UNTRY TO DIG EPER TO SANTOS’ PAST—OR WHAT THEY ULD FD OF .IT’S UNCLEAR WHY SANTOS HAS NOT DISCLOSED HIS APPARENT MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, BUT DON’T F WELL WH HIS CURRENT BGRAPHY.HE HAS PREVLY TOLD U.S. AND BRAZILIAN MEDIA THAT HE WAS ENGAGED TO A MAN, A FELLOW BRAZILIAN WHOM SANTOS HAS INTIFIED AS A PHARMACIST, AND HIS MPAIGN B CLAIMS HE LIV ON LONG ISLAND WH HIS HBAND. (THE DAILY BEAST ULD FD NO PUBLIC RERD OF THE MAN’S WORK THAT FIELD, NOR ULD WE FD A MARRIAGE RERD.)BUT NEW YORK URT RERDS SHOW THAT, 2019, SOMEONE NAMED GEE DEVOLR SANTOS, WH A SEND IAL OF “A,” FALIZED AN UNNTTED DIVORCE WH UADLA SANTOS VIEIRA SANTOS. PUBLIC RERDS SEARCH ONLY REVEAL ONE PERSON THE UNED STAT WH THAT NAME.UADLA SANTOS AND GEE SANTOS DID NOT REPLY TO LLS OR QUTNS SENT VIA TEXT MSAGE TO NUMBERS ASSOCIATED WH THEM. (A ED FOR A $750,000 HOE PURCHASE UNN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, THIS JUNE LISTS UADLA SANTOS AS THE BUYER, AND SAYS SHE IS MARRIED; SHE IS THE ONLY PURCHASER LISTED ON THE PROPERTY DOCUMENTS.)GEE SANTOS, WHOSE MIDDLE NAME IS ANTHONY, SOMETIM DEVOLR, HIS LATE MOTHER’S MAIN NAME. HE RPORATED TO HIS MPAIGN—“DEVOLR SANTOS FOR CONGRS”—AS WELL AS HIS OWN SUPPOSED FANCIAL SERVIC PANY, THE DEVOLR ORGANIZATN. SANTOS HAS SHIFTED BETWEEN DIFFERENT BATNS OF THOSE FOUR NAM OVER THE YEARS, SOMETIM EMBRACG HIS FATHER’S SANTOS SURNAME, OTHER TIM GOG BY HIS MOTHER’S DEVOLR.SANTOS’ MOTHER DIED 2016, ACRDG TO AN ONLE CROWDFUNDG MPAIGN SANTOS LNCHED TO RAISE MONEY TO VER “THE STS OF THE WAKE.” THE GOFUNDME PAGE LISTS “ANTHONY D SANTOS” AS THE BENEFICIARY—AND ANTHONY DEVOLVER OF SUNNYSI, NEW YORK, AS THE ANIZER—AND THE FUNDRAISG MPAIGN REMAS OPEN.SANTOS’ MPAIGN B PAGE CLAIMS HIS MOTHER WAS “THE FIRST FEMALE EXECUTIVE AT A MAJOR FANCIAL STUTN,” THOUGH THE SPECIFIC STUTN IS UNNAMED. THE B ALSO SAYS “GEE’S MOTHER WAS HER OFFICE THE SOUTH TOWER” ON THE MORNG OF SEPT. 11, 2001.“SHE SURVIVED THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF THAT DAY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS LATER”—ABOUT 15 YEARS LATER.AND ON WEDNDAY, JEWISH OUTLET THE FORWARD ADD STILL MORE TRIGUE, SUGGTG SANTOS MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN UNTTHFUL WHEN HE CLAIMED DURG THE MPAIGN—CLUDG ON HIS WEBSE—TO HAVE JEWISH ANCTRY. THE REPORT LED G HOE MORY LEAR HAKEEM JEFI TO CLARE HIS FUTURE LLEAGUE A “PLETE AND UTTER D.”BUT THE DIVORCE REVELATN, AND THE APPARENT SECRECY AROUND , PLIT A CENTRAL PIECE OF THE IMAGE SANTOS HAS BURNISHED AS A DYNAMIC AND CULTURALLY REVOLUTNARY FIGURE.IN AN ELECTN SEASON WHERE MANY OF HIS FELLOW NSERVATIV SPOUTED NONSENSIL ALLEGATNS OF PEDOPHILIA AMONG DEMOCRATS, TARGETED BENIGN DRAG BNCH AS EPICENTERS FOR “GROOMG,” AND FLAMED A HATEFUL ANTI-GAY AND ANTI-TRANS MOVEMENT—AS ATTACKS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY SKYROCKETED—SANTOS MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST NON-CUMBENT GAY REPUBLIN TO EVER BE ELECTED TO CONGRS.BUT AFTER ACHIEVG THAT VICTORY, AND JT TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS BARRIER-BREAKG GURATN, SANTOS’ RELATNSHIP WH THE TTH IS FACG TTS HE SOMEHOW DODGED FOR TWO MPAIGNS.SUBSCRIBE TO THE PAY DIRT NEWSLETTER HERE TO FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE DIRTY DOLLARS FLUENCG OUR PUBLIC POLICY. ROGER SOLLENBERGER

Gee has talked about his gay partner as per the wiki sourc. PICTURED: Wife 'openly gay' US ngrsman-elect Gee Santos DIDN'T want you to know about – as 's revealed there is no rerd of marriage to his 'hband' and he ma up Jewish herage after lyg about fance reer and tn — IntoTheMystic (@Mystic_Sailor) December 23, 2022.

Sue me for havg a life, " said is openly gay but has supported polici many nsir anti-LGBTQ, cludg Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law, which rtricts nversatns about sexualy schools. "As a gay man, I UNAPOLOGETICALLY support this law! Man asked if Santos felt he's always been gay, and he said "No.

"I never mpaigned on that, on beg gay, " Santos said.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* JORGE SANTOS GAY

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class="article-le-byle" data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">Rep.-elect Gee Santos is facg creasg lls to rign<strong> </strong>after he admted that he fabrited parts of his résumé, cludg rmatn about his tn and employment history. </p><p class="">In a bombshell <a href=">vtigatn</a> published Dec. 19, The New York Tim said was unable to substantiate many of Santos’ alleged qualifitns, such as that he had worked for Goldman Sachs and Cigroup and had graduated om Bach College.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">Santos, who ma <a href=">LGBTQ polil history</a> when he won the November race New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District, which vers parts of Long Island and Queens, admted to what he scribed as “overstat[g]” and “embellishg” his qualifitns at least three<strong> </strong>terviews Monday.</p><p class="">“A lot of people overstate their rum or twist a ltle b,” he said <a href=">an terview wh WABC rad</a>. “I’m not sayg I’m not guilty of that.”</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Congrsman-elect Gee Santos speaks durg a prs nference" height="1668" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer" data-ttid="ptn__ntaer">Rep.-elect Gee Santos speaks at a news nference Baldw, N.Y., on Nov. 9.</span><span class="ptn__source">Alejandra Villa Loar / Newsday RM via Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">In an terview wh <a href=">the New York Post</a>, he said he did not graduate om Bach College or any stutn of higher learng. </p><p class="">“I’m embarrassed and sorry for havg embellished my rume,” he said, acrdg to the paper. “I own up to that. … We do stupid thgs life.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">And he apologized an <a href=" target="_blank">terview wh Cy and State New York</a>, sayg: “Did I embellish my rume? Y, I did. And I’m sorry, and shouldn’t be done.”</p><p class="">In a <a href=">prev versn of his mpaign webse</a>, Santos said he “began workg at Cigroup as an associate” after havg graduated om Bach College and, later on his reer, was “offered an excg opportuny wh Goldman Sachs” that “was not as fulfillg as he had anticipated.” </p><p class="">In Monday’s terview wh the New York Post, however, he scribed his claims that he had worked for the two pani as “a poor choice of words” and said he did bs wh them when he was the vice print of a pany lled LkBridge. </p><p class="">Santos nied reportg by The New York Tim that he has unrolved 2008 crimal charg of check d Brazil. </p><p class="">Santos told the New York Post: “I am not a crimal here — not here or Brazil or any jurisdictn the world. Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.”</p><p class="">Santos also fac scty for his prev claims that he has Jewish herage. His mpaign webse bgraphy prevly said his mother’s parents ​​“fled Jewish persecutn Ukrae, settled Belgium, and aga fled persecutn durg WWII.” As of Tuday, <a href=">the bgraphy</a> had been removed.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Santos has said <a href="> prev terviews</a> that his fay nverted to Catholicism when they moved to Brazil and that he is not Jewish. But <a href=">the Forward</a>, a Jewish publitn based New York Cy, on Tuday shared <a href=">a py of a posn paper</a> which Santos lled himself a “proud Amerin Jew.”</p><p class="">However, his terview wh the New York Post, Santos said he is “clearly Catholic” and, acrdg to the paper, he “claimed his grandmother told stori about beg Jewish and later nvertg to Catholicism.”</p><p class="">“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I am Catholic. Bee I learned my maternal fay had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”</p><p class="">This week’s terviews are among Santos’ first rpons to the Tim vtigatn, and his ments have led to wispread cricism, some of om fellow Republin officials.</p><p class="">Nass GOP Chairman Joseph Cairo said a statement Tuday<strong> </strong>that he is “eply disappoted” Santos and that he “expected more than jt a blanket apology.”</p><p class="">“The damage that his li have ed to many people, pecially those who have been impacted by the Holot, are profound,” Cairo said. “He mt do the public’s will Washgton. … Gee Santos will have to ntually prove that he has learned his lson.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Matt Brooks, the CEO of the Republin Jewish Coaln, a polil group that supports Jewish Republins, said a statement Tuday that Santos “ceived and misreprented his herage.”</p><p class="">“In public ments and to personally he prevly claimed to be Jewish,” Brooks said. “He has begun his tenure Congrs on a very wrong note. He will not be wele at any future RJC event.”</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend" data-ttid="remend-wrapper"></div><p class="">There is at least one Republin fendg Santos: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Geia. In a <a href=">Twter thread</a> posted Tuday afternoon, Greene<strong> </strong>said the “real reason” Santos is beg attacked by “the left” is that he is the “first openly gay Republin elected and they hate him for .”</p><p class="">“I’m glad Gee is beg hont wh his district now and look forward to seeg how Gee legislat & vot,” Greene wrote.</p><p class="">Reps. Ted Li and Eric Swalwell, both California Democrats, said Santos should not be allowed to serve Congrs. </p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-twter" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-twter iamely-app iamely-embed" style="max-width: 550px;"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="paddg-bottom: 100%;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-twter" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-twter iamely-app iamely-embed" style="max-width: 550px;"><div class="iamely-rponsive" style="paddg-bottom: 100%;"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">Santos’ petor the November electn, Democrat Robert Zimmerman, also lled on him to rign and n agast him aga a special electn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“Face the voters wh your real past & answer qutns about your crimal history,” Zimmerman said <a href=">on Twter</a>. “Let the voters ci.”</p><p class="">Rep. Rchie Torr, D-N.Y., lled for the Hoe Ethics Commtee to vtigate Santos bee of a part of the Tim report about his fanc. The report found that Santos was issued a warrant of evictn 2017 bee of unpaid rent for his apartment the Queens borough of New York Cy but that fancial disclosure forms also show that he lent his mpaign more than $700,000 durg the midterm electn. NBC News was able to nfirm that Santos has faced at least two evictns sce 2014.</p><sectn class="embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium"><div class="embed-widget__e-prentatn embed-widget__iamely-twter" style="--iame-height:0px"><div><div class="iamely-twter iamely-app iamely-embed" style="max-width: 550px;"><div class="iamely-rponsive"><iame data-src=" loadg="lazy" src="//" allowfullscreen></iame></div></div></div></div></sectn><p class="">In his terview wh the New York Post, Santos said that at the time of the 2017 evictn lawsu, his fay was “engulfed bt” bee of his mother’s ncer battle.</p><p class="">“We had issu payg rent at the time,” he said. “It’s the vulnerabily of beg human. I am not embarrassed by .” </p><p class="">He said his mother, Fatima Devolr, died of ncer December 2016 after havg lived the apartment wh him. </p><p class="">NBC News tried to reach Gee Santos overnight but has not received a rponse.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">Santos also fac scty for his claim that his mother was a survivor of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A prev versn of his mpaign webse stated that she was a fancial executive workg the World Tra Center’s South Tower durg the time of the attacks.</p><p class="">“She survived the horrific events of that day, but unfortunately passed away a few years later,” his webse prevly stated. He also reerated the 9/11 survivor claim a June 2021 <a href=">terview wh WABC</a> rad.</p><p class="">Public employment rerds show only one employer for Santos’ mother: Imports by Rose, a pany based Queens that shuttered 1994. The New York Tim reported that Santos’ mother was a domtic worker, not a fancial executive. </p><p class="">Asked about Santos’ claims regardg his mother, Santos’ attorney, Joseph Murray, referred NBC News to Kev Connors, who Murray said would be handlg Santos’ media quiri. Connors did not immediately rpond to a requt for ment. </p><p class="">Qutns have also arisen about Santos’ sexualy after The Daily Beast reported Thursday that he did not publicly disclose that <a href=">he had been married to a woman</a>. Acrdg to public rerds, Santos was married to a woman om 2012 until 2019, shortly before he ran for Congrs the first time as an <a href=">out gay ndidate</a>. Santos also implied an <a href=">October terview wh USA Today</a> that he had been “openly gay” for at least a . </p><p class="">Santos nfirmed his prev marriage to the New York Post on Monday, sayg that the issue is “personal” and that he is now happily married to a gay man.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div><p class="">“I’m very much gay,” he told the Post. “I’m OK wh my sexualy. People change. I’m one of those people who change.”</p><p class="">Dpe the wispread cricism, Santos mataed the WABC rad terview Monday that he did not “d” voters. </p><p class="endmark">“I’m not a crimal who d the entire untry and ma up this fictnal character and ran for Congrs,” he said.</p></div><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Jo Yurba is a reporter for NBC Out.</p></div></div><div class="expand-ntributors">Donna Menll<!-- --> <!-- -->ntributed<!-- -->.</div></div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div></div></div></div><span></span><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt" data-ttid="ad__ntaer"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-ttid="ad__ntaer__ner"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Closed Captng</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo .

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