Trump commuting the 7-year sentence of George Santos

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He didn't even wait for the felon to serve one year out of the seven.

Trump claimed that he believed that seven years in prison was too harsh a punishment.

Let's look at that. When you are convicted of a crime, the prosecutor(s) recommends a punishment that is laid out in the criminal statute(s). The judge reviews the recommendation, looks at the trial record. Sometimes the punishment has a range of low to the highest amount of years and/or monetary fine.

Both the prosecutor and the judge believed that seven years was a sufficient amount of time to punish Santos. They didn't pull that number out of their asses. It was within the statute(s) and likely given to other convicted defendants for the same crimes.

Trump summarily overrode the prosecutor and the judge. Three months out of 84. That's 3.57% of the original term. IOW, Trump interfered with the judicial system again. I'm surprised that he didn't demand that Santos be reimbursed for the three months he served.

But I'm also wondering why Trump didn't full out pardon him.