Mary Troyan

USA Today

A Republican elector from Texas who has promised not to vote for Donald Trump on Monday has misrepresented his personal work history, according to a news report by a Dallas/Ft. Worth television station.

The elector, Chris Suprun, is not employed by an air ambulance service that he lists on his résumé, according to WFAA. And a second paramedic firm he said he currently worked for went out of business eight years ago. State records show Suprun is a licensed paramedic.

The news report also questions a key part of Suprun’s biography: his work as a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001. An anonymous source told the station that Suprun had claimed to respond to the terrorist attack at the Pentagon from his post with the Manassas Park Fire Department in Northern Virginia, but the department said it didn’t hire Suprun until October of that year.

In 2012, Suprun told a Philadelphia newspaper that he responded to the Pentagon as a volunteer firefighter with the Dale City Fire Department, also in Northern Virginia.

The Texas TV station updated its story Friday afternoon after Suprun, on Reddit, said he worked for Dale City at the time of the attacks. However, the station said Suprun did not list the Dale City job on a 7-page résumé he recently gave to potential employers in Texas.

Suprun did not respond to the station’s requests for comment, and two public relations firms representing him said he would not be available for an interview, according to the story.

"Federal court records show Suprun has spent the last five years in bankruptcy while his résumé says he was working. He even collected unemployment during part of it, court records show. Suprun was just released from bankruptcy supervision this month," the report states.

In an op-ed published by The New York Times on Dec. 5, Suprun said he would not vote for Trump when the Electoral College meets on Monday because he doesn't believe Trump is qualified for the office.

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