Elizabeth Warren’s belated withdrawal of her support for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner – long after a string of troubling allegations first surfaced – is the latest politically expedient move by the opportunistic Massachusetts Democrat.

The progressive darling senator has made an entire career of shifting with the political winds, ranging from finally disavowing Platner long after other Democrats did to blasting the wealthy while amassing a small fortune herself from her books and speeches.

In May, Warren traveled to Maine to buck up the embattled Platner, proclaiming giddily, “He’s my kind of man!”

On Tuesday, after the New York Times reported a drunk Platner sexually assaulted a former girlfriend, Warren put out a brief, late statement saying he should pull out of the race. Profile in courage, that.

But should we really be surprised by Warren’s late turn? She simply has no principles, except for her own political career. For her it’s all about convenience.

Eight years ago, Warren led the Democratic charge against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh because of an unsubstantiated charge of sexual assault, lamenting that “it’s clear, the fix is in.”

But now that the tables turned on a Democrat, Warren was all in on Platner – not believing the litany of allegations from other women until the latest charge finally forced her to hit reverse.

Warren is just as big a phony as Platner. Her career is littered with inauthentic, cringe-worthy moments.

Shortly after she announced her ill-fated campaign for president in 2020, Warren appeared on an Instagram live stream and in her best down home Oklahoma accent, the Harvard Law professor said, “I’m gonna get me a beer.” A Michelob Ultra, no less.

It didn’t work. Iowa voters who know a phony when they see one resoundingly rejected her, and even in her home state of Massachusetts she could only manage a dismal third place showing – behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. It was the ultimate humiliation that forced her to drop out of the race.

In that campaign, Warren never lived down the disclosure broken by the Herald that she once claimed to be a Native American, a minority category that could have aided her career at Harvard Law. She listed herself as a minority in a legal directory used by other schools in the hiring process. In other words, she was politically expedient even back before her political career.

She even hired a well known DNA tester for damage control and celebrated when the results showed a minute, almost negligible percentage of Native American heritage. But she quickly dropped the Native American claims during her campaign, knowing voters would never buy it.

The Native American controversy led to Donald Trump nicknaming her a derogatory name, and he welcomed her into the presidential race.

“I hope she’s running for president because I think she’d be very easy,” Trump accurately predicted. “I do not think she’d be very difficult (to beat) at all. I don’t want to say bad things about her because I hope she’s one of the people that get through the process.”

Throughout her Senate career, Warren has fought against large corporations even when it hurts consumers. She cheered when a judge blocked troubled Spirit Airlines from merging with JetBlue, calling it a “Biden win for flyers.” The decision caused Spirit to fold.

Warren has plenty to say when it suits her, but clams up when the questions get too tough. When asked by a dogged reporter chasing her down a street how she amassed an estimated $12 million net worth on her Senate salary, Warren refused to answer or even stop to say no comment. It wasn’t convenient for her because she has spent her life trashing the rich.

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