George Santos has lied about his education, his mother’s death and being the target of crime, but the Republican majority is too slim to call for his resignation
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The word “embellishment” is usually defined something like this: “a decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive”. So you might embellish a patio with a pot plant, for example, or — were you a Duchess, say — yourself with a gold Cartier pendant necklace.
The word’s secondary meaning has been given new life by New York congressman George Santos — or Anthony Devolder as he has also called himself. When it was discovered that Mr Santos had lied about who he had worked for (not Goldman Sachs), where he had gone to school (not Horace Mann), where he had been to college (not Baruch for whom, it follows, he cannot have played volleyball and “slayed” Harvard and Yale, sacrificing both
