Trump commutes prison sentence of ex-GOP Rep. George Santos

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Source: CNBC

Published Fri, Oct 17 2025 6:08 PM EDT Updated 10 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately. Santos “was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Santos was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison this year after pleading guilty to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He began serving his sentence in late July. The 37-year-old New York representative served in the House for less than a year before he was expelled from Congress amid a cloud of scandal in December 2023.

Even before he was sworn in, Santos admitted lying about key details of his life on the campaign trail. While in Congress, he was charged by the Department of Justice with an array of federal crimes including fraud, theft, money laundering and making false statements.

Trump, in his social media post Friday, said he began thinking about Santos after being reminded of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who weathered heavy criticism during his 2010 Senate campaign for saying he had “served in Vietnam” when he had never deployed there.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/trump-george-santos-prison-commutation.html

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Published Fri, Oct 17 2025 6:08 PM EDT Updated 3 Min Ago


President Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, wrote that Santos "was somewhat of a 'rogue,' but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison."

Santos, 37, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

The New York representative served in the House for less than a year before he was expelled from Congress amid a cloud of scandal in December 2023.

Even before he was sworn in, Santos admitted lying about key details of his life on the campaign trail. While in Congress, he was charged by the Department of Justice with an array of federal crimes including fraud, theft, money laundering and making false statements.


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President Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, wrote that Santos "was somewhat of a 'rogue,' but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison."


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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. You got to be kidding

BREAKING: Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of George Santos, according to a Truth Social post.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-10-17T22:10:44.399Z

[Maeve]

2. Hubby's response 'Well, of course! Fellow crook"

[erronis]

5. Your hubby and I think alike.

Stinky poo sticking together.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Perfect new recruit for the Trump Crime Syndicate.

Santos will fit right in.

[WestMichRad]

15. I wish I could Rec this a thousand times.

You nailed it, Irish.

[tulipsandroses]

4. The Party of Law and Disorder

No surprise.
Diddy is next

[3Hotdogs]

19. Not Diddy. Diddy ain't white and President Miller only likes people who are white

so he ain't gonna pull Trump's Pinocchio strings on behalf of Diddy.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. F*cker!

[sop]

7. Ghislaine Maxwell will be next.

[flvegan]

8. I guess the check cleared. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Truly a criminal regime.

[Bobstandard]

10. I expect to see him soon on Fox

Expert commentator or his own show? Probably the latter.

[djacq]

11. Vile

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Trump orders ex-Republican Rep George Santos released from prison

trump is a criminal and so he likes other criminals

Link to tweet

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5q3439xpqo

US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, a former Republican Congressman who is serving seven years for fraud and identify theft, and ordered his immediate release.

In a post on social media, Trump said Santos "has been horribly mistreated", adding: "Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY."

The former lawmaker was only the sixth in US history to be expelled from Congress, after an ethics report in 2023 found dozens of damning charges.

Santos, who admitted to stealing the identities of 11 people - including family members, is currently serving his sentence at a minimum-security jail in New Jersey.

[badhair77]

13. Yep, the law and order president.

Think of the work involved by the prosecution and now just a slap in the face. Unbelievable.

It’s like those ridiculous Chrisley people. He pardoned them after they had ripped off people and they no longer had to pay restitution. Just walk away laughing.

[C_U_L8R]

14. NY State may want a word with the ex-congressman

This clown was a train wreck of corrupt nonsense. Follow the money.

[NYC Liberal]

16. "many rogues throughout our Country that aren't forced to serve seven years in prison"

We know. One of them is sitting in the White House.

[Buddyzbuddy]

17. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! ICC,ICC,ICC. No immunity.

ICC, No immunity!

[PSPS]

22. ICC? You mean the body that the US neither recognizes nor supports?

[Buddyzbuddy]

23. Exactly.

What better reason for the US and the next Administration to join and support. You don't have to be part of it for them to charge violators of a crime. It's up to our leaders to cooperate. If we aren't willing or able to charge and convict our own criminals, that doesn't stop them. Putin and Netanyahu are wanted for crimes. Duterte was caught and is now facing trials. So yes, it can and should be done. It would be poetic justice if Jack Smith helped in some way

[Eugene]

18. Thus begins the political comeback of Kitara Ravache, a Jew-ish candidate from NY.

[Grokenstein]

20. Pure krasnov anti-logic: "Why lock up anyone on my side? What's in it for me?"

But he wants anyone who's ever criticized him disappeared into a torture dungeon.

[COL Mustard]

21. One disgraced NY politician takes care of another disgraced NY politician....

Nothin' to see here; move along, now.

[Old Crank]

24. Another gop felon

Unleashed on the streets.
GOP is one big criminal syndicate.

[mdbl]

25. I hope someday we get a president that can reverse some of this bullcrap

Send Santos and the Jan 6'ers back to prison to finish their sentences. They don't deserve freedom just like the convicted felon running the white house.

[totodeinhere]

30. A future president cannot reverse pardons or commutations carried out by predecessors.

If that were possible Trump would have already reversed the Hunter Biden pardon .

[mdbl]

31. is this written or implied?

since when did Dump care anyway?

[Pachamama]

26. Mothafucka

[Botany]

27. And Santos* was being funded by the same Russian Olge Dirapaska who was paying NYC FBI agent ....

… McGonigal to rat fuck the HRC campaign in 2016 by getting the NY Times to publish two stories
on the front page that said:

FBI sees no link between Trump campaign and Russia.

Comey and the FBI reopen investigation into HRC’s emails.


Look to see McGongil to be let out of prison soon.


* real name Tony DeVolder.

[mdbl]

32. too bad he can't be dragged back into court for a civil suit

He stole from his constituents just by being dishonest. Recover whatever salary he was given.

[Vinca]

28. He's been out of prison about 12 hours now. Who's he bilked so far?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. George Santos is not the first corrupt Republican representative Trump pardoned.

[Botany]

33. Don't forgot Paul Manafort Krasnov pardoned him for working with Russian Intelligence and passing on ..

Information to them. It wasn’t just polling data but data analytics that let Russia help micro target
their efforts to help Trump in 2016.

Wiki:

The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in August 2020 that Manafort's ties to individuals connected to Russian intelligence while he was Trump's campaign manager "represented a grave counterintelligence threat" by creating opportunities for "Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump campaign."[34]

On May 13, 2020, Manafort was released to home confinement due to the threat of COVID-19.[35] On December 23, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Manafort.[36][37][38]

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. MaddowBlog-With George Santos, Trump finds another convicted congressional Republican to reward

The president has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.

In the wake of the George Santos rescue, Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-20T13:25:11.734Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/george-santos-trump-finds-another-convicted-congressional-republican-r-rcna238611

About six months ago, disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos, facing overwhelming evidence of guilt, reached a plea deal with prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Asked around this time whether he would appeal to Donald Trump for a rescue, the former New York congressman said, “You bet your sweet a-- I would.”....

Two months later, my MSNBC colleague Erum Salam reported:

President Donald Trump is commuting the sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., and said the disgraced lawmaker should be quickly released from prison. ... Trump called the 37-year-old Santos something of a ‘rogue,’ but added that he was also ‘a Great Hero.’

.....In his first term, Trump effectively wielded his pardon and commutation power as a corrupt weapon, rewarding loyalists, completing cover-ups, undermining federal law enforcement and doling out favors to the politically connected, resulting in some of the most controversial pardons in American history. Many of these actions, however, transpired after his 2020 election defeat — when it seemed as if his political career was over and he no longer had to concern himself with consequences.

But in the first year of his second term, it appears Trump is no longer concerned about appearances or the pretense of propriety. He’s corrupting the process; he knows that he’s corrupting the process; he knows that we know that he’s corrupting the process; and he’s doing it anyway.

On the first day of his second term, Trump issued roughly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan. 6 criminals, including violent felons who were in prison for assaulting police officers. A few days later, he kept going, pardoning 23 anti-abortion rights activists, seemingly unconcerned with their guilt. That was soon followed by a pardon for former Gov. Rob Blagojevich, a man synonymous with corruption in Illinois politics, whom Trump saw as an ally.......

What’s more, The Washington Post published this memorable roundup on the last day of Trump’s first term:

Since Trump took office, two incumbent Republican congressmen have been convicted of crimes, Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) and Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.), as has a former congressman, Steve Stockman (R-Tex.). Trump pardoned all three of them. Trump also pardoned four former Republican congressmen convicted before his presidency: Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.), Robin Hayes (R-N.C.), Mark Siljander (R-Mich.) and Randall “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.). ... [A]ccording to GovTrack’s Legislator Misconduct Database, Trump has now pardoned a majority of Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.[/blockquote]

With the Santos commutation, the new total of Trump rescues for congressional Republicans convicted of crimes has reached 10 — and counting. (While some congressional Democrats have also been convicted of crimes in recent years, to date, none of them has benefited from the incumbent president’s magnanimity.).....

For all the GOP hysterics during the Biden era about a “two-tiered” system of justice, it seems the White House has gone out of its way to create the very dynamic Republicans claimed to be against.