BAD NEWS BERNIE: Ohioans Call BS On Moreno’s Phony Rags-To-Riches Story And His “Problem Telling The Truth”
May 24, 2024
Columbus, OH – Ohio Senate candidate and car salesman Bernie Moreno – who “has a problem telling the truth” – continues to face scrutiny for the phony “rags-to-riches” story he tells on the campaign trail as part of a “calculated process of self-creation.” While Moreno spent his week hobnobbing with donors behind closed doors, Ohioans are noticing Moreno’s “dubious claims” are “full of s***.”
NEED-TO-KNOW THIS WEEK:
- In a new video, Ohioans react to the New York Times reporting that exposed Bernie Moreno’s phony “riches-to-rags-to-riches,” “only-in-America bootstraps story,” – noting that Moreno is “full of s***.”
- Moreno faced more scrutiny as it becomes even clearer Moreno’s claims about his upbringing are “not really true,” and his “calculated process of self-creation” is falling apart.
💰PHONY RAGS-TO-RICHES STORY IS “FULL OF S***”: Ohioans are seeing that Moreno is untrustworthy and may have “ulterior motive[s]” after a recent New York Times report found Moreno is lying about his “rags-to-riches” story. Here’s what Ohioans are saying about Moreno omitting details of his “rich and politically connected family” during his “signature pitch” of his candidacy:
- “Highly suspect.“
- “They probably have some kind of ulterior motive.”
- “They’re a horrible person for lying. Don’t pretend to be something that you’re not just to gain sympathy.”
- “How would you believe anything else they say? It’s not true.”
- “I would think they were trying to cover up something or trying to fool people into believing something for a reason.”
- “I would definitely think that they have some kind of ulterior motive by saying that.”
- “Well, then they full of s***”
🙊 “NO PUBLIC EVENTS IN THE AREA:” Moreno continues to have a “quiet public schedule recently,” spending his week behind closed doors with rich donors while refusing to meaningfully address the long list of serious questions facing his campaign.
Outside of Moreno’s Toledo fundraiser, Ohioans gathered to call him out for his lies:
🕵️ SUSPECT STORY UNDER SCRUTINY: In the week since the New York Times “destroyed” Bernie Moreno’s phony “riches-to-rags-to-riches” story, Ohioans are reading / watching / listening about Moreno’s claims about his upbringing being “not really true.”
- TIME: “In Ohio, especially, GOP nominee Bernie Moreno faces a clear narrative problem around his personal story.”
- WLWT: “The [New York Times] found Moreno was born into a rich and politically connected family in Bogotá….On the campaign trail, Moreno’s narrative has leaned heavily on his family starting over in the United States, saying his parents and their seven children ‘left everything’ behind to live in a two-bedroom apartment in Florida. The New York Times counters that claim, reporting instead that Moreno’s family initially lived in a three-bedroom condo in a high-rise building on the beach in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Two months later, the family moved to a four-bedroom house using money lent to them by a family member.”
- Chris Quinn, Today In Ohio: “New York Times destroyed [Moreno’s] rags to riches story a couple of weeks ago…with a piece that looked at him coming to America. He paints this picture, they came and they lived in almost squalid conditions. It’s not really true.”
- Anna Staver, WOSU: “So, according to the Times, his family was both wealthy and well-connected in Bogota, where they used to live. One of his brothers even served as the Colombian ambassador to the United States, and that cramped first two-bedroom apartment was actually a luxury waterfront condo, which they quickly traded in for a very nice house.”
- Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal: “And this New York Times story gives a little bit of a lie to it, you know. Bernie’s dad was an Ivy League trained surgeon and he came with advantages that, you know…a lot of them don’t have.”
- Andrew Tobias, Cleveland.com: “His dad was personal physician to the president of Colombia, he was the equivalent to the U.S. health secretary down there, so very well connected family for sure.”
❓MORENO DODGES QUESTIONS: While Moreno hides behind closed doors, here is a reminder of the questions he owes Ohioans answers to about the “string of inconsistencies” “dogg[ing]” his campaign:
- Why are you claiming on the campaign trail that you had a “lower-middle-class status” and lived a “bootstraps story,” when your family was actually “rich and politically connected,” lived in a luxury oceanfront condo, and “never completely left behind” your wealth and status?
- Why are you lying to Ohio workers by claiming you never sold Chinese-made SUVs? Will you apologize to Ohio workers who have criticized you for contributing to their jobs being “shipped overseas” and “hurt[ing] Mahoning Valley workers and families?”
- Why are you lying about shutting down Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute?
- Why are you lying about escaping socialism?
- Why did you claim you “didn’t take handouts” when reporting shows you got your dealership at a steep discount? Will you make documents around your 2005 insider deal available?
🐤 TWEET OF THE WEEK:
🎶 CODA: “If you’re a voter, do you want [Moreno] who’s really done nothing more than make a lot of money selling cars?”
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