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George Santos released from prison after Trump commutes sentence

Disgraced former congressman George Santos (R-New York) was released from prison late Friday after President Donald Trump commuted his sentence for identity theft and wire fraud.

Santos was released from prison Friday night, according to his attorney, Joe Murray. His family picked him up, Murray said.

“George Santos was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison,” said Trump in a social media post announcing the commutation. “Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Santos, who was expelled from the House after being accused of financial misconduct and telling myriad lies about his background, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. He was less than three months into his sentence when his release was ordered…

… Santos admitted to defrauding donors to his 2022 campaign by taking their money for his personal use and charging thousands of dollars on their credit cards without authorization, among other charges. He also admitted in court to wrongfully claiming unemployment benefits for nearly a year and making false statements to Congress on his required disclosure statements, in which he said that he had millions of dollars in fabricated assets.

He had just been elected to Congress in 2022 when news reports began exposing a slew of lies he had told about his background. He claimed to have studied at educational institutions he never attended for high school, college and business school. He said he worked at the Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup; he did not. He falsely said that his mother was inside the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that his grandparents fled the Holocaust.

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So Trump proving yet again, you can be a crook and get away with it.

It is absolutely shocking, if the guy had been a democrat Trump would be calling for him to remain in prison forever.

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36204914)

https://wapo.st/4nX6crg

he sounds like America's version of that lady from accounts

it's all about who your friends are and not what laws you have broken :(

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36204915)

So Trump proving yet again, you can be a crook and get away with it.

It is absolutely shocking, if the guy had been a democrat Trump would be calling for him to remain in prison forever.

Money, power and corruption, what could go wrong!!!

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Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 36204915)

So Trump proving yet again, you can be a crook and get away with it.

Anyone else get the feeling this is a test to see how much uproar there is before pardoning maxwell, that's if war with Venezuela doesn't distract everyone from epstein enough first

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No more shocking than Biden pardoning his entire family or any of Obama’s political pardons, or any past U.S. president’s political pardons.

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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 36204922)

No more shocking than Biden pardoning his entire family or any of Obama’s political pardons, or any past U.S. president’s political pardons.

The ability of pardoning someone should be taken out of the hands of presidents and be done by a body that has no political ties and affiliations with those in power.

At the moment we have presidents who will use it for their own corrupted and personal ends.

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 36204923)

Thankfully *we* have no such thing. *They* do, because when they created their republic they gave their president powers that were broadly similar to those exercised by European monarchs of the time.

It’s super-ironic when they take to the streets yelling about ‘No Kings’ when their president is by design much more king-like than those who actually exercise executive authority in the government they gave the boot (i.e. ours, where royal prerogatives of the sort Trump can exercise directly are almost always now exercised by a prime minister who is part of, and stands or falls with, the legislature that he’s a part of.