Justin Brannan just proved he can’t be trusted to serve as city comptroller

It really tells you all you need to know about City Councilman and comptroller-candidate Justin Brannan that a dozen or so clergy just called him out for falsely claiming their endorsements.

“I felt violated,” Bishop E.M. Davis told The Post.

“Let me make my own decision,” fumed Pastor Louis Bligen.

After multiple faith leaders stood up to complain, some saying they’d never even heard of him, Brannan’s campaign deleted the social-media post.

It blamed an external vendor for the screwup — though getting bishops, pastors and so on to endorse you seems a truly bizarre thing to outsource.

That is: Even Brannan’s excuse has to make you ask why he should be given huge power over city pension funds, among the other responsibilities of the comptroller’s office.

As the chosen candidate of the far-left Working Families Party, Brannan can at least console himself with the backing of a slew of pro-Hamas Israel-haters, such as anti-cop Councilwoman Tiffany Caban (D-Queens) and the infamous Linda Sarsour.

Of course, Brannan has earned Caban’s love on many fronts: He endorsed the council Progressive Caucus’ 2020 plan to defund the NYPD by $5 billion over 10 years and was one of 11 members who pledged to vote no on a city budget that “does not significantly #DefundNYPD.”

And when the City Council nonetheless passed a budget that didn’t cut the NYPD deeply, he vowed that “the work doesn’t stop tonight.” 

Not that he didn’t try going after Mark Levine, his opponent in the primary, as a cop-defunder, until the debate moderator called out Brannan for throwing stones in a glass house: As the clergy fiasco shows, Justin isn’t one to let facts get in his way.

The good news is, if Brannan can’t con the voters into making him comptroller, term limits will soon force him off the council — and perhaps out of city politics entirely.