From Jezebel this news story
headline pretty amazing to say the least and a bit troublesome at the same
time … George Santos long-lost twin sister or so it seems … oops. (Just my guess)
“A New (Alleged) Liar in Congress Just Dropped”
By now, many people know about serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-NY) who made up almost his entire
resume and claimed to be Jewish on the campaign trail. He’s facing various
investigations and recently also stepped down from his House committee assignments but is
still somehow in Congress. And now, the House GOP appears to have another
fabulist on their hands!
According to this potentially damning story in the Washington Post, Rep. Anna
Paulina Luna (R-FL) is an Air Force veteran and former Obama supporter who used
to go by the name Anna Paulina Mayerhofer before she switched parties to run
for Congress.
She’s now a member of the House Freedom Caucus and has argued that House members should be able to carry firearms to committee meetings.
Luna claimed on the campaign trail that while she is a
Christian, her father, George Mayerhofer, raised her as a Messianic Jew and
that she’s part Ashkenazi Jewish. (Messianic Jews identify as Jewish but
believe Jesus is the Messiah).
She said all that during an interview with Jewish Insider in
which she stood with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has made anti-Semitic
comments.
Luna later said: “MTG did
endorse me, and I was raised as a Messianic Jew by my father. I am also a small
fraction Ashkenazi. If she were anti-Semitic, why did she endorse me?”
Well, it so happens that Luna’s relatives dispute that fact
and say that not only was here father George a Catholic who never practiced any form of
Judaism, but that his father, her grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, served in the Nazi Army in
the 1940s.
Luna’s estranged uncle even provided the Post with a photo of Heinrich in uniform, which an independent expert said: “Was consistent with that of a member of the Wehrmacht, which was the armed forces of Nazi Germany.” Luna’s aunt told the Post that Heinrich had no choice but to serve in the German army.
It’s worth noting that the reason Luna is estranged from this uncle, Edward Mayerhofer, is that he used social media to draw attention to “inconsistencies in Luna’s biography during her first Congressional bid.”
People also accused Luna
of only embracing her Hispanic heritage for political gain. She is the first
Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida, though in a 2015 voter
registration form, she identified herself as “White, not of Hispanic origin.”
(She then identified as Hispanic when she updated her registration in 2019).
Luna said he had a difficult childhood in California with
her father addicted to drugs and repeatedly incarcerated and she repeatedly said that
her mother Monica raised her single-handedly with “no family to rely on.”
Relatives disputed this
claim, saying they gave Monica logistical and financial help. Plus, the Post was
not able to find records of her father ever serving time in California.
Luna has also claimed that when she was stationed in
Missouri, someone broke into her apartment at 4 a.m. while she was home. Her
roommate at the time told the Post that a break-in did happen,
but it was during the day when Luna wasn’t home.
She has used this
story to talk about the importance of gun rights, telling reporters on election
night: “When I was stationed in Missouri, I had someone that broke into my
house. I didn’t have a firearm. It wasn’t until I got stationed in Florida that
I got my concealed carry. So I have lived in circumstances and in states where gun
control was pushed.”
Her former roommate also disputed this, saying they both had guns in the Missouri apartment.
Luna then
responded to
that story on Twitter, calling it “comical” and saying she’d be going on Jesse Watters’ Fox News show
tonight “with the facts,” adding: “The left hates conservative minorities.”
Buckle in folks, we’re embarking on another congressional
liar news cycle.
My 2 Cents: Totally
impossible but it sure seems like Santos and Luna are connected if not by their
own genes but by a serial liar set of genes.
So, what will Speaker
McCarthy have to say about this new set of facts? That ought to be interesting
to decipher, right?
Stay tuned and thanks for
stopping by.
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