romney with a time to say, what are you doing dude? santos needs to go. what did you think? von santos, for him to play the victim here. but it is just so absurd. but it is mid romney s privileged background. all around that. it s about the fact that you are a pathological liar. but romney, yes, he did work in investment form. you re on a ponzi scheme. does he have millions or is he did he really equal all those 199 dollar or 99 cent dinners that the restaurant? that was on the expense account. the pay first campaign. really, just absurd. here s something interesting, john, i think it s in your wheelhouse. one of our great correspondents did an interview with a specialist and pathological liars. and so, here is what that psychologist has to say. we see people telling egregious lies like that. and there appears to be a lifelong pattern association with. it hits the type of person who s engaged and pathological lie. v there s this moment at the state of the union
custodial in interrogation situation. there s a lot of tells. the problem here is you ve got to reverse the model. which is really is finding a line for when is he telling the truth. because line is difficult. you have to keep track of it. you have to categorize them. you have to make sure that you maintain them these complex stories. whether you know, you re cheating a lover or doing a ponzi scheme. like madoff. but, when you just assume vibe tell it without something simple. a life stacks up. they don t make sense. here is some so kind of couple things which is, shame on us. the fact that he got elected. and then we found out all of this shows a failure the political process. a failure of the media, the press. and, in a situation where he was the governor of california. you can do that in congress. constitutionally banned. i think when the reason that we report so much on george santos is because there is something fascinating about
translator, which he worked with from time to time while we worked together in the past year. you know, he had been collaborating on this piece up until the day before he disappeared on october 1st, as far as i can tell. so, like i said in my note above the column, we held off. we honestly thought that maybe we were dealing with, you know, perhaps an interrogation situation. we thought that maybe he would come back to us. we thought maybe we were perhaps even dealing with an imprisonment or a hostage situation. but as time went on, it became increasingly clear that i wouldn t edit him again. and so i think this week we decided as the story is moving on to sort of the u.s./saudi relationship, a geopolitical story, rumors are swirling about
disappearance. you know, through his assistant translator, which he worked with from time to time while we worked together in the past year. you know, he had been collaborating on this piece up until the day before he disappeared on october 1st, as far as i can tell. so, like i said in my note above the column, we held off. we honestly thought that maybe we were dealing with, you know, perhaps an interrogation situation. we thought that maybe he would come back to us. we thought maybe we were perhaps even dealing with an imprisonment or a hostage situation. but as time went on, it became increasingly clear that i wouldn t edit him again. and so i think this week we decided as the story is moving on to sort of the u.s./saudi relationship, a geopolitical story, rumors are swirling about
hill say, look, sanctions forestalling these arms sales puts us at a hamstring further down the road, because then we can t hold back spare parts and further technical assistance, so we lose all leverage at that point. so it is a difficult tight rope to walk here. look, it s hard to believe, right, that all of this is kind of hard to believe. this gentleman walks in the front door, cctv everywhere. if the saudi intelligence agency didn t know that, and they thought they were just going to eliminate this guy from the face of the earth with nobody knowing, they re pretty ham-handed. so the narrative that he was killed during a you know, an intense interrogation situation, and nobody knew what to do, who knows that s the case. but that may be the theme we re going to hear here. and they, you know, some highen-level intelligence officer and the saudi kingdom is put forth as a scapegoat. and they kind of move forward. that may be the case. and the world may be forced to accept that, b