Michael A. Cohen: Donald Trump so normalized political dishonesty that his fellow Republicans no longer appear to possess any shame about making statements that are provably false.
While Santos is under investigation for campaign finance violations, his actions go beyond violating criminal codes. Every day that he remains in Congress mocks the once unquestioned notion that politicians have a fundamental obligation to adhere to a baseline level of honesty and truthfulness when they present themselves to voters.
What makes Santos’ continued membership in the House even more galling is the cynicism that keeps him in office. I’m not just referring to the shamelessness of Santos refusing to step down even after being exposed as a pathological liar. I’m speaking instead of the Republicans who won’t demand that he resign.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initially ignored calls not to seat Santos, because with a narrow four-seat majority, he.
Keeping Santos around to pad McCarthy’s razor-thin majority is a slap in the face to every voter duped into casting a ballot for Santos under false pretenses, but the speaker is clearly more concerned about his personal ambitions than a silly, trifling thing like the will of Long Island voters. As Joshua Zeitz, a historian and contributing writer at Politico Magazine, said to me, “It’s a reflection of their [the GOP’s] fundamental belief that power is the end itself. Truth doesn’t matter.
We saw this play out during the Trump years as congressional Republicans made the cynical decision to enable his lies for fear of getting on the wrong side of Trump’s rabid supporters and potentially losing their jobs. With Santos, however, we’ve entered previously uncharted territory.
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