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[Dude#1279435]

Like an episode of the Twilight Zone....

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/trump-george-santos-sentence-commute.html

President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos, the disgraced Republican fabulist from New York who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for financial fraud.

In a social media post, Mr. Trump called Mr. Santos “somewhat of a ‘rogue’” but said that he believed that the former congressman’s sentence was excessive given the nature of his crime. The president also suggested he’d been moved by Mr. Santos’s accounts of being in solitary confinement, which he had published in a local Long Island newspaper.

“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Mr. Santos, 37, reported to prison in southern New Jersey on July 25 after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced to 87 months and was scheduled to be released in September 2031, according to the Bureau of Prisons’ website.
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During his plea hearing, Mr. Santos acknowledged his involvement in a variety of other schemes. He acknowledged lying to Congress, stealing money from campaign donors and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits.

His commutation comes after pleading from some of his Republican allies, including Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the brash Georgia Republican and MAGA adherent. Ms. Greene sent a letter in August asking the Justice Department for a commutation.

At that time, Mr. Trump, who has doled out pardons or clemency to staunch supporters and others favored by his right-wing base, did not rule out offering a pardon to Mr. Santos, saying in an interview in Newsmax that he had not yet been asked.

“Nobody’s talked to me about it,” Mr. Trump said at the time. But after acknowledging Mr. Santos’s reputation for falsehoods, the president commended their shared political ideology.

“He lied like hell,” Mr. Trump said at the time. “And I didn’t know him, but he was 100 percent for Trump.”

In his post announcing Mr. Santos’s commutation, Mr. Trump cited their shared political views as a reason for his action, writing, “At least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!”

 

[Dude#1279435]

It isn't that the Democrats don't pardon, but see the last two paragraphs. Trump just says well Santos is a Republican and was for me. I mean really. How dumb can it get? I mean 7 years for fraud and extra nefarious activities isn't exactly too much. Solitary confinement? Alrighty throw Santos in a regular cell for 7 years and call it a day.

 

[Mikado463]

Trump/Santos, perhaps brothers from different mothers ? Regardless, Trumps commuting the two-bit loser Santos's sentence is but one more example of his pathetic behavior............

 

[lovinthehd]

Trump/Santos, perhaps brothers from different mothers ? Regardless, Trumps commuting the two-bit loser Santos's sentence is but one more example of his pathetic behavior............

Both grifters of a kind. Not as heinous as the Jan6 pardons, but definitely similar to drumphy's own crimes.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Trump/Santos, perhaps brothers from different mothers ? Regardless, Trumps commuting the two-bit loser Santos's sentence is but one more example of his pathetic behavior............

Someone stop the bleeding please.

 

[mono-bloc]

The big problem is when his presidency ends, and another Trump, Donald junior nominates for the job,, Moving on for eight years in the future, and number two son steps up and nominates.
So much for a democracy , Dictatorship might be a better description, for the un----lucky country

 

[mtrycrafts]

Trump/Santos, perhaps brothers from different mothers ? Regardless, Trumps commuting the two-bit loser Santos's sentence is but one more example of his pathetic behavior............

Watching too many Lincoln Layer movies or series.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Someone stop the bleeding please.

Cowards in Congress