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Disgraced gay Republican & closet drag queen George Santos claims JD Vance’s drag pics aren’t drag

"Holy crap, is that bad drag," Santos said in the same breath.
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UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 17: Reps. George Santos, R-N.Y., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., are seen on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol before the Republican nominee for speaker of the House, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed to receive enough votes to win the position on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 17: Reps. George Santos, R-N.Y., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., are seen on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol before the Republican nominee for speaker of the House, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed to receive enough votes to win the position on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Photo: CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag

Aaaaaand he’s back…. Disgraced gay former Congressman George Santos has inserted himself in the presidential election with his “expert” take on hard-right, culture-warring Republicans with a drag-addled past.

The onetime Republican New York representative, who’s facing multiple campaign finance indictments following his expulsion from the U.S. House of Representatives, shared his reaction to the revelation that Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), attended a party while he was a student at Yale Law School dressed as a woman in an interview with TMZ.

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Pic of JD Vance in drag goes viral after classmate leaks it

His campaign isn’t denying that it’s him.

According to Santos, the controversy surrounding Vance’s cross-dressing at a costume party is “disingenuous” and “most dudes at some point have played around” dressing up as a woman.

“It’s definitely not drag,” Santos said of Vance’s amateur ensemble.

Photos shared by a former Yale classmate revealed Vance posing seductively wearing a long blonde wig, black knit blouse, a colorful skirt and a chunky chain necklace. In one photo, he carries a black purse over his shoulder.

“Holy crap, is that bad drag,” Santos commented about the photos.

“I mean, the guy went to a costume party, put on a freakin’ cheap wig from Party City, or something similar,” the one-time Brazilian drag queen posited. “To call that drag is disingenuous, and I think most dudes at some have played around with costumes that were gender-bender.”

Straight “couples do that all the time,” Santos claimed. “The wife will dress up as a guy. Husband will dress up as a woman. So it’s not drag. It’s definitely not drag.”

Like the self-loathing Santos, Vance has been consistently hostile to the LGBTQ+ community.

Last year, along with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the House, Vance introduced legislation in the Senate to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth at the federal level and to make such care more difficult for trans adults to obtain.

Vance has expressed his support for Don’t Say Gay legislation prohibiting discussions of sexual orientation and gender identities in schools, writing, “I’ll stop calling people ‘groomers’ when they stop freaking out about bills that prevent the sexualization of my children.”

Vance spoke out against laws protecting LGBTQ+ people from discrimination following the 2020 Supreme Court Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, which found that anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination is a form of sex-based discrimination. He called the legal reasoning behind the decision a “betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists.”

Vance also opposes the Equality Act, legislation to include sexual orientation and gender identity in federal anti-discrimination laws.

News of Santos’ own drag past in Brazil — as a pageant queen named Kitara Ravache — surfaced amid a tsunami of larcenous revelations about the Long Island Republican in 2023. The newly-sworn-in rep spent weeks denying the rumors before eventually owning up to his alter ego.

He has even resurrected Kitara — “after 18 years!” — for hired appearances in Cameo videos to turn a quick buck.

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