DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo entered this interview believing he was a new Socialist Star and Political Kingmaker, even having a say in the next US President.
Instead, he embarrassed The DSA, and sent journalists digging into his life story that turned out to be an entirely fabricated story.
Here is each lie from the interview.
He told Martha his family fled Peru because of American imperialism and the imposition of capitalism. They left during the Shining Path years. Maoist communist guerrillas.
His grandfather Manuel Gordillo was already a doctor in the US in and became a Citizen in 1964. Gustavo was born a US citizen. They did not flee American imperialism. They fled communist violence and came to the America, because his grandpa had already made it very comfortably here.
He says his parents had to work at Wendy's and cleaned houses. He leaves out the rest. Dad founded Draftpros, a telecom engineering firm doing tens of millions a year. His parents own a $3.1M house in Boca and another $3M place in Weston. They bought Gustavo a Bed Stuy row house through an LLC for under $1M in 2019. Now worth about $1.5M after they renovated it for another $1M plus for him. This same LLC paid his $2600/month Lower East Side rent before that.
The key thing he presents himself as is a Union Electrician even using the Handle @unionGustavo. This same Union said they terminated him from the apprenticeship in March for prolonged absence from work and classes. He was never even a journeyman and did it just to take some pics in a hard hat and gain a new line for his personality as a "Socialist Union Electrician". Very cool among the comrades to have a working class backstory right now, bonus points for made up persecution.
On Fox he said an immigrant run bodega deserves to go out of business to one of Zohran's government run grocery stores if they can't handle competing with a store using the treasury to offset their costs. He also said landlords have no constitutional right to double-digit returns. Same guy living in the house dad bought under an LLC for him, which is a great way to doge NYC taxes as well.
He made up a very cleverly crafted Immigrant struggle story, that was believed by all his Comrades and even The New York Times caught on to none of it, when they gave him a glowing profile piece.
Like Zohran, who claimed he was "someone from the third world", leaving out the part that his family lived in Uganda for 5 years of his life with armed security in a gated complex with mansion, staff, and a private pool.
They both grew up cushioned from the real world and never had to contribute to it. It's ok to grow up rich, but it's wrong to make up a lie, and fake victimhood complex.
They push the same “America bad” politics, with no gratitude for the country that gave them a more comfortable life than most Americans will ever have, including the people who actually built and maintain it, which they have never been and never will be a part of, no matter how much they play dress up.
Are we human beings, trying to have a spiritual experience, or are we spiritual beings living a human experience? This world contains both the seen and the unseen. Our understanding of ourselves, this world and other people is limited and unlike that of our omnipotent Creator. Have faith and believe in a power greater than ours…just for today. Then, thank Him first thing when you wake up and ask for strengthening your faith in Him…just for that day. Repeat. May God bless you, help your unbelief and heal you. ✝️
Remember when Obama instructed the President of Nasa at the time, Charlie Bolden, to amplify the achievements of Muslim nations in space & no longer talk about America’s achievements? I do. I asked Charlie Bolden about it when I was filming with him for 60 Minutes and he said he was stunned. Then I asked him what Muslim achievements there had been in space that I was not aware of and he replied he did not know of any. He said it was perplexing to receive such an order from the President & made no sense to him or anyone else. Unless you understand that the left & the globalists have been shoving Islam down the throat of the west intentionally for years to conquer & destroy western civilization from within.
"It is money laundering and money churning at its absolute best — a permanent Democrat slush fund dressed up as education. That’s why they lose their minds the second DOGE or Trump starts going agency by agency.
They’re not protecting kids. They’re protecting the pipeline."
BREAKING: Lancaster, Pennsylvania officials have BUSTED a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme that includes thousands of applications with the same handwriting, fake signatures, false addresses, etc
They discovered the same scheme in other Pennsylvania counties.
District Attorney Heather Adams revealed that the applications came from canvassers who were paid to obtain voter registrations, adding that "The majority of the applications were from residents in the city of Lancaster... The canvases themselves took place at various shopping centers, parking lots of grocery stores and businesses, sidewalks and parks."
"We are aware of at least two other counties that receive similar applications that are currently being investigated."
If you listen closely, the DA said the Clerk received the applications at or near the deadline to register to vote. That means the bad actors waited till the last minute so no one would notice. They would've used the fraudulent applications to commit mail-in ballot fraud without getting caught.
We better check the entire state of Pennsylvania, and we better see arrests NOW.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to sign legislation recognizing two Muslim holidays, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, as state holidays and allowing public schools to celebrate their significance.
There are over 12 million Catholics in California, yet schools have no similar authorization to celebrate the religious significance of Christmas, Easter or Good Friday.
I have a new respect for Kim Strassel of WSJ after reading this article from her revealing how the fake news covers the left's lawfare dishonestly, to make anything Trump and conservatives look bad and losing and anything the left does look legitimate and winning. "The state of legal reporting has reached peak national embarrassment."
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The Media's Lawfare Enabling
The Supreme Court last week allowed Donald Trump’s ballroom construction to proceed, eliciting shock from the press corps. The court on Monday allowed the president’s mail-in voting order to continue, eliciting the same shock. This follows the shock after Trump administration wins on immigration enforcement, personnel firings, DEI and transgender orders, and dozens of other issues.
How long is the public meant to treat the press’s pearl-clutching as genuine, rather than part of a campaign to undermine the administration and the credibility of the high court?
The state of legal reporting has reached peak national embarrassment, a master class in fiction that rivals the reporting about Russia “collusion” and Joe Biden’s undiminished capacity. The media’s contribution to lawfare began in the earliest days of the first Trump term and has become only more brazen. The swings and misses are there for all to see, every day. Yet the formula is now so routine that nobody pushes back.
It works like this: The administration takes an action that offends liberal sensibilities. Interest groups rush to litigate, sometimes with prepackaged lawsuits. The press quotes liberal law professors and the litigators themselves as to why the suits are worthy. A liberal judge issues an injunction, which is treated as further proof of a lawsuit’s merit. The stories omit any critical analysis of standing, jurisdiction, merits or precedent. When a higher court corrects the legal overreach, the media, rather than acknowledge it got it wrong, insists the judges are in the tank for Mr. Trump.
Consider that ballroom case. When the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit last December to halt the project, the press corps pushed the litigation as a slam dunk. The stories all led with a quote from the suit, presenting as fact that “no president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever.” The pieces cataloged the laws the administration had supposedly violated, and the claim that any building required the “express authority of Congress.” Critics hailed the early August ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to halt the project as evidence of the trust’s legal firepower.
Chief Justice John Roberts’s order last Friday staying that injunction wasn’t accompanied by an opinion and isn’t a ruling on the merits. But any reporter with a half-sharp pencil might have reported the potentially fatal problems with this suit. These were nimbly outlined by Judge Neomi Rao, who dissented from the D.C. Circuit’s injunction.
She argues the trust has no standing to bring the suit: It wasn’t chartered to look after the White House, and its one member who occasionally walks past the complex and expects to dislike the new structure, can hardly claim a concrete “injury.” Judge Rao also makes a persuasive case on the merits, noting that the trust’s ultra vires claim (that the administration is acting in obvious excess of its powers) is “essentially a Hail Mary pass,” since at least one federal law authorizes the president to use funds for the “care, maintenance, repair, alteration” and “improvement” of the executive residence.
The courts will decide the merits. But it’s ludicrous that the country’s ace legal reporters never provided the public even an inkling of these legal defects. It’s much more fun, as numerous stories about last week’s order did, to suggest slyly that the chief justice is doing a personal favor for the president.
This is the cynical game—jerryrigged reporting to give life to lawfare and to set false expectations, the better to smear legal grown-ups. How unrelentingly were we told Mr. Trump’s 2017 “travel ban” would never stand? That there was no such thing as presidential immunity? That of course a president can’t fire independent-agency heads? That the administration’s firings, and DEI rules, and immigration actions all offended the law?
How do we know this misreporting is intentional? The press corps is quite capable of providing good analysis about cases the president is actually poised to lose, as with his emergency tariffs and his executive order on birthright citizenship. It would be easy to call any right-leaning lawyer to get a read on a liberal suit’s flaws. It doesn’t happen.
Don’t expect it to end, since the tactic continues to work for the left. The lawsuits—and the cheering coverage—keep the Democratic base motivated. The flood of litigation—and the hyped coverage—maintains the narrative that the president is daily exceeding legal boundaries. And the purposeful presentation of Supreme Court rulings as political or partisan—rather than straightforward legal correctives—gives ammunition to elected Democrats making the argument that they are justified in blowing up the judiciary to achieve partisan objectives.
The real scandal is the press’s role. No one is surprised to see elected officials or political partisans engaged in partisan tactics, which now includes lawfare. But this particular ruse doesn’t work without the media’s cooperation—its willingness to suspend disbelief, omit key facts, and pretend higher courts are acting out of bounds. It’s doing terrible damage. Where are the professional media critics when you need them?
Leftist Ms. Rachel: "Black people don't hang themselves from trees"
Raleigh Police Chief: There's a video showing him hanging himself.
Another race hoax
Every. Single. Time.
The FireAid fundraising concert last year was one of the great scams of the past decade. Perfectly on brand for California.
Repeatedly the promoters and celebrities involved promised that all the money raised would go DIRECTLY to victims of the fires.
No money actually went directly to victims of the fires.
The money actually went to about two hundred nonprofits, most of which had nothing to do with the fire victims. When it comes to fraud, California is king.
🚨 BREAKING: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL after he just got fully exposed fabricating "measles deaths" for two newborns
RESIGN, NOW!
Not only were the deaths NOT CAUSED by measles — but the newborns were called "unvaccinated" despite being BELOW the age where any baby would even get vaccinated for measles!
The attempt: to make it seem like Sec. RFK Jr. CAUSED the deaths.
Freaking despicable. This guy is NOT fit to be governor, much less president
He's pulling the COVID playbook, but almost worse. Step down!
If you were to list the top 1000 real problems in the United States, voter fraud wouldn't be one of them. It's not even in the top 10,000. Donald Trump made this up in order to make it harder for Democrats to vote and easier for Republicans to cheat.
Obama in London:
We have a President in power making broad claims about autism that undermine public health. It’s violence against the truth to say Autism has increased..
Obama- April 21, 2008- Blue Bell Pennsylvania:
“We’re seeing skyrocketing autism rates. We have to research it. We’ve got to figure out why this is happening. Some suspect it’s related to vaccines.
Remember this.. @SecKennedy
Obama London
https://t.co/km4wGBZ5QV
Obama 2008
https://t.co/6CVNHovXzL
What is a Color Revolution?
We have been experiencing one here in
the United States since Donald Trump became president in 2016.
Listen to @realdefender45 as she does a marvelous job of explaining.
You’ll want to hang on to this and
share it with someone you care about.
🚨 UNBELIEVABLE.
Abigail Spanberger is facing massive outrage and calls to RESIGN after a child sex sting in Virginia led to the arrest of 9 degenerates—and ONE-THIRD of them are illegal aliens.
Even worse: ICE issued active detainers for all 3 illegals, but local authorities RELEASED THEM BACK ONTO THE STREETS on cheap bonds as low as $3,000 anyway. 😡
@EricLDaugh Thune will not act in the best interest of the majority of citizens who want to SAVE election integrity. The reason is…he’s bought and paid for. His inaction will prove it.