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\n\tDonald Trump said on Friday that he commuted the sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn a Truth Social post, the president called Santos \u2014 who had been sentenced to more than seven years in prison this year after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft \u2014 \u201csomewhat of a \u2018rogue,’\u201d but that \u201cthere are many rogues throughout our Country that aren\u2019t forced to serve seven years in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTrump\u2019s announcement arrives after Santos\u2019s sycophantic letter to the president was published by local Long Island news outlet The South Shore Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSir, I appeal to your sense of justice and humanity \u2014 the same qualities that have inspired millions of Americans to believe in you,\u201d wrote Santos in his plea for clemency, in which he described his living conditions in prison. \u201cYou have always been a man of second chances, a leader who believes in redemption and renewal. I am asking you now, from the depths of my heart, to extend that same belief to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe president has granted a slew of pardons to political allies and loyalists in the months following his second term including issuing a blanket\u00a0pardon\u00a0and widespread clemency to 1,500 individuals who participated in the\u00a0Jan. 6\u00a0attack on the Capitol \u2014 including offenders convicted of violent crimes. Trump also\u00a0granted\u00a0clemency\u00a0to former GOP Rep. Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty to felony tax fraud; former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, a Republican who was found\u00a0guilty\u00a0of political corruption charges and was convicted in two separate federal criminal cases; and reality TV stars\u00a0Julie and Todd Chrisley, who were\u00a0convicted\u00a0of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in 2022. The president also\u00a0commuted\u00a0the federal sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, who was convicted of murder and then later several federal charges, and was serving a life sentence. (Hoover will still need to serve his sentence stemming from his state charges.)<\/p>\n \u201cSantos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN! George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,\u201d wrote Trump on social media Friday. \u201cTherefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tProsecutors claimed Santos\u00a0spent donations\u00a0to his 2022 campaign on non-campaign expenses including OnlyFans, Sephora, Herm\u00e8s, spas, and Botox. They also say he committed identity theft by using donors\u2019 credit cards without their knowledge.<\/p>\n \n\tSantos\u2019 lies have marked his career, his education, and his personal life. The former House member falsely claimed that his grandparents survived the Holocaust and that his mother survived the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York City. A Navy veteran also\u00a0accused\u00a0him of refusing to give him funds from a GoFundMe campaign for his dying service dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump said on Friday that he commuted the sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately. In a Truth Social post, the president called Santos \u2014 who had been sentenced to more than seven years in prison this year after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft \u2014 \u201csomewhat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[17068,5075,1072,2027,2865,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-28788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-commuted","9":"tag-fraud","10":"tag-george","11":"tag-santos","12":"tag-sentence","13":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n