‘We don’t know his real name’: George Santos’s unravelling web of lies

Nobody even knows who this guy is,' critics say, but he was still awarded with House panel assignments - showing the party stands for nothing'

He didn't just steal from a service dog. He didn't just steal from a dying service dog. He stole from a disabled homeless veteran's dying service dog. Oh my God. You evil and stupid!"

That was how Leslie Jones, guest host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, summed up just one of this week's revelations about George Santos, a US congressman whose shameless fabulism has stunned Washington, a capital that thought it had smelt every flavour of mendacity from politicians.