NY Post Columnist Rages At Republicans Who Voted to Expel Santos: ‘Suckered by Moral Vanity’

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine offered a unique take on now-former Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) historic expulsion from Congress last week. In her Sunday column, Devine argued that Republicans were “suckered” by some kind of false “moral vanity” when they joined Democrats to vote out the fabulist congressman – who faces 23 federal indictments.

Santos has made headlines for months for having lied about almost every aspect of his background and more recently as a House Ethics investigation revealed he defrauded GOP donors by charging their personal credit cards for his lavish living expenses – including adult websites.

“105 Republicans were suckered by moral vanity into expelling one of their own Friday,” wrote Devine in the column. Devine has long been a highly controversial figure in American media for spinning accusations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter – none of which have yet to lead to any substantive charges.

While spending much of her professional life hunting for criminal wrongdoing, she appears to be oddly unbothered by the many accusations and charges Santos is facing. “The 35-year-old gay son of Brazilian immigrants, Santos had the most conservative voting record of the entire New York delegation, and now he is gone, taking his vote with him,” Devine wrote, adding:

“To hell with this place,” he said as he exited the US Capitol after the vote, vowing revenge on the former colleagues who had turned on him.

Perfect. Just what Republicans need: more friendly fire.

Who knows who will fill his place in the Democratic district he miraculously flipped last year?

Devine went on to offer the main argument that the GOP House members who did not vote to expel Santos offered. “They simply could have declared that he is entitled to the presumption of innocence, like all Americans, and quietly groomed his replacement,” she wrote, seeming to ignore there was nothing quiet about Santos.

Notably, the effort to remove Santos was led by New York Republicans who wanted to rid themselves of a national embarrassment before campaigning in earnest to keep their seats – in an apparent effort to boost their reelection chances, which Santos appeared to endanger.

Devine spends the rest of her column attacking Democrats and declaring a double standard in American politics, which condemns Republicans and allows Democrats to evade punishment.

Devine ended by citing Rep. James Comer’s (R-KY) impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden:

Gaslighting is all they have. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is coming at them like a freight train, with more damning financial evidence to roll out this week and a vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry expected to pass the House before Christmas, as Republicans unite.

Comer on Monday released his latest “bombshell” finding into Biden, claiming that Hunter Biden was paying off his father with recurring payments. The payments were quickly uncovered to be Hunter repaying his father in three installments adding up to just over $4,000 for car payments his father made for him while he was broke.